INDUSTRIAL VILLAGES. 307 



At St. Claude, which is a great centre for 

 briar pipes (sold in large quantities in London 

 with English trade-marks, and therefore eagerly 

 bought by those Frenchmen who visit London, 

 as a souvenir from the other side of the Channel), 

 both big and small workshops, supplied by 

 motive force from the Tacon streamlet, prosper 

 by the side of each other. Over 4,000 men and 

 women are employed in this trade, while all 

 sorts of small by-trades have grown by its 

 side (amber and horn mouth-pieces, sheaths, 

 etc.). Countless small workshops are busy 

 besides, on the banks of the two streams, with 

 the fabrication of all sorts of wooden things : 

 match-boxes, beads, sheaths for spectacles, 

 small things in horn, and so on, to say nothing 

 of a rather large factory (200 workers) where 

 metric measures are fabricated for the whole 

 world. At the same time thousands of persons 

 in St. Claude, in the neighbouring villages and 

 in the smallest mountain hamlets, are busy in 

 cutting diamonds (an industry only fifteen 

 years old in this region), and other thousands 

 are busy in cutting various less precious stones. 

 All this is done in quite small workshops sup- 

 plied by water-power.* 



* Interesting details about the small industries of this region 

 will be found in the articles of Ch. Guieyase, in Pages libres, 19&2, 

 Nos. 66 and 71. 



