The bringing home of the wedding dress is an event of solemn importance. The family alone are admitted to see it, and each of them sprinkles the orange blossoms with which it is trimmed with holy water placed at the foot of the bed whereon the dress is laid, and offers up a prayer for the future welfare of the wearer.
French Hainault, French Flanders and Cambrésis (the present Dép. du Nord), with Artois, were conquests of Louis XIII. and Louis XIV., confirmed to France by the treaties of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) and Nimeguen (1678).
Photographed in the Album d'Archéologie Religieuse. It is supposed to have been made towards the end of the seventeenth century.
Founded 1630.
"1772. 15 aunes 3-16mes jabot haut de vraie Valencienne, 3,706 livres 17 sous"; and many other similar entries.