Statistics. 
Tn Cham- 
pagne. 
In Poitiers. 
In Anjou, 
&c. 
Tn Brittany. 
in Nor- 
mandy, 
In Langue- 
doc, 
In French 
Flanders. 
720 
of French wool, and 115,000 pounds of Spanish. The 
wool grown at this period in the province of Picardy, 
and used along with Spanish wool in their manufac- 
tures, amounted to 524 milliers. In that division of 
Champagne, which, previously to the Revolution, was 
called the department of Rheims, there were made, in 
the flourishing period of its manufactures, 84,000 pieces 
of stuff. In this department were included Rheims it- 
self, Sedan, Vervins. In the generality of Poitiers, 
principally at Poitiers itself, and Niort, were annually 
made from 25,000 to 30,000 pieces of stuff; in the Or- 
leannois, about 25,000 pieces of cloth. Romarantin, in 
this district, already noticed, made nearly 6000 pieces. 
In the provinces of Anjou, Tourraine,’and Maine, about 
18,000 pieces of stuff. In Berry, there were 34 places 
where cloth and other woollen stuffs were made 3 seven 
of which made from 3000 to 4000 pieces each ; six from 
2000 to 3000; and the rest ‘about 800 or 900 pieces, 
The tapestry made in this generality amounted to 
80,000 livres annually. In Brittany, 800 looms were 
employed, chiefly in making light stuffs. The princi- 
pal places, Nantes, Rennes, St Brieux, &c. In Nor- 
mandy, the woollen manufacture flourished extremely : 
in the generality of Rouen (that is, a division of the 
vince over which an i rx of the woollen manu- 
actures was placed), there —_ 12 looms, pon 
employed in manufacturi oth, serges, and tapestry. 
The chief places for cloth 5 were Darental, Elbeuf, and 
Louvieres, In the generality of Alencon, another divi« 
sion of Normandy, upwards of 60,000 pieces of eloth, 
and other drapery, were made: the princi places 
were Alencgon Aumale, in which latter 1200 
looms were employed in the manufacture of serge. Bur« 
gundy, mig: ah and Provence, were not very cele« 
brated for their woollen manufactures. There was, 
however, a considerable manufacture of i at 
Dijon: about 1000 pieces of cloth made at St Jean-en- 
Royans, and about éoo0 pieces at Romans. The manu- 
factures of Languedoc were very important and flou- 
rishing. ‘At Lodeve, 45,000 pieces, white and grey, 
were made ; at Bezieres, Sept, and Carcassone, the ma- 
nufactures were equally flourishing. In the middle of 
the last century, the annual product and manufacture 
of Languedoe, so far as it relates to our present topic, 
was as follows: sheep 1,000,000 livres ; fustians and 
basins 90,000 ; blankets 230,000 ; bergames and tapes- 
try 20,000 ; woollen stuffs, fine and coarse, 4,100,000 ; 
cloths, principally fine, 8,450,000; woollen stockings 
40,000 ; hats 400,000 ; making a total of 14,330,000 
livres. In French Flanders there were also pretty con- 
siderable manufactures of woollen goods, of various de- 
scriptions. At St Omer’s, 350 looms were employed 
in making cloth, dru , besides a great many stock. 
ing frames. At Lisle there were nearly 1000 looms 
employed in making camblets, besides several hundred 
in making’callimancoes, &c. ; and 200 frames in making 
stockings and caps. Above 800,000 pieces of stuff were 
made annually at this place. At gt Pour, between 
Marseilles ~ Toulon, there is a manufacture of red 
worsted caps, which are very much worn by the 
santry of Provence, and the fishermen of Marseilles, 
Hence arose the bonnet rouge during the Revolution. 
It was introduced by the Marseillois as the fashion of 
their country. To this account a few miscellaneous ar- 
ticles may be added. were made at Rouen, at 
Asa and at Felletin, a small town in the Lower 
Marche : these were called ta carpets ; those made 
at Tournay were called ag! moucade ; 
at Arras, as well as the other places mentioned a ve 5 
FRANCE, 
blankets in Normandy, Auvergne, and 
Languedoc ; 
Dartenat in N ly, the best and 
finest ; at Vernon, 
imperfect, 
€ manufactures of 
period of their most ishing state. 
Long before the Revolution, however, 
had declined to a considerable degree. A few years 
previous to that event, the woollen manufacture at Car- 
cassone was by far the most important. In 1786, the 
following is the state and balance of the trade in cloth 
Smcorporana to the Levant, manufactured at this 
. They manufactured every 
ieces of cloth, of which 800 only were sold in the king- 
Nae for home consumption : the remainder 
to the Levant. The whole amount of cloth exported. 
was worth 11,136,000 livres. The greatest of 
the wool used in that manufactory was wool, 
chiefly from Rousillon and loc. They used 
a vast quantity of.tin and cochineal in their dyeing, 
The cost of Nis ee estimated at 6 livres comk 
The price of the 300 bales of wool, 
from Spain to mix with the 
native wool, came to 270,000 livres. The price of the 
drugs to 284,000 ; making a total sum, paid for raw 
materials from abroad, 
654,000 livres, They sold’ 
to the merchants of Marseilles, for CF por into Tur. 
key, to the amount of 11,136,000: ving a balance 
for the workmanship, and the price of the raw mate- 
rials of the growth of the ki , Of 10,482,000 li. 
vres, or £458,587, 19s. sterling. In 1784, France ex- 
ported cloth to the value of 15,530,900 livres ; stuffs to 
the value of 7,600,000 ; and plush, &c. to the value of 
4,425,100. The exportation. of cloth, in the ojo 1787, 
had fallen to 14,242,400 livres; and that stuffs, in 
the same year, to 5,615,800 livres, The produce of 
the whole woollen manufacture was rated, in 1789, 
at 140,000,000. of livres annually. ; 
2. The next manufacture in im 
is the silk manufacture ; but of the state of this, when 
it was most flourishing, we cannot collect» such details 
as we have given relative to the woollen manufacture y 
because, fon the old government, the: of the king- 
dom, where there was any woollen man was can 
toned into several departments, or districts, called gene- 
ralities, with an in: r to each, and a superi: 
over the whole; and thus a particular,account of this 
manufacture might vA tan We so axetone, 
be obliged to specify the princi places w silk 
manufacture is pa a epee afterwards to give such 
estimates of its value before the Revolution as we can 
collect. The quality of French silk, and particularly 
that of Languedoc, is very good. It is made into 
woof, and even very beautiful i Since the 
- establishment of the silk mills at Vancauson, the French 
organzine has obtained a superiority over that of fo- 
reign countries. The woof-made in edoc and 
at Alais is preferred. The annual export of raw silk 
from the latter, in the most flourishing state of its trade, 
was 1,200,000 lbs. 
The most considerable manufactures of silk are those 
established at Tours, Lyons, Nismes, Avignon, Mar« 
seilles, and Paris. The silks of Tours Lyons are 
esteemed of the best quality: Those manufactured at 
Nismes are far inferior. Elorentine taffetas, English 
taffetas, and damask, are manufactured at Ss ay 
There are also silk manufactures at Rouen, ouse, 
Auch, Narbonne, Amiens, and several other places. 
Statistics. 
—— 
of 
year at Carcassone 64,800 At Carcas- 
sone in 
1786. 
extn Silk manu- 
and extent 
