298 SMALL INDUSTRIES AND 



Agriculture and industry are thus going here 

 hand in hand, the importance of not severing 

 the union being perhaps best seen at Loudeac, 

 a small town in the midst of Brittany (depart- 

 ment of C6tes-du-Nord). Formerly the villages 

 in this neighbourhood were industrial, all ham- 

 lets being peopled with weavers who fabricated 

 the well-known Brittany linen. Now, this in- 

 dustry having gone down very much, the 

 weavers have simply returned to the soil. Out 

 of an industrial town, Loudeac has become 

 an agricultural market town ; * and, what is 

 most interesting, these populations conquer 

 new lands for agriculture and turn the formerly 

 quite unproductive landes into rich corn fields ; 

 while on the northern coast of Brittany, around 

 Dol, on land which began to be conquered from 

 the sea in the twelfth century, market-garden- 

 ing is now carried on to a very great extent for 

 export to England. 



Altogether, it is striking to observe, on 

 perusing M. Ardouin Dumazet's little volumes, 

 how domestic industries go hand hi hand with 

 all sorts of small industries in agriculture 

 gardening, poultry-farming, fabrication of fruit 

 preserves, and so on and how all sorts of asso- 

 ciations for sale and export are easily intro- 

 duced. Mans is, as known, a great centre for 



* Ardouin Dumazet, voL v., pp. 259-266. 



