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the making of various tools for these work- 

 shops, as also for different other trades. 



In other parts of the same region, such as 

 Hericourt, a variety of small industries has 

 grown by the side of the great ironmongery 

 factories. The city spreads into the villages, 

 where the population are making coffee-mills, 

 spice-mills, machines for crushing the grain for 

 the cattle, as well as saddlery, small iron- 

 mongery, or even watches. Elsewhere the 

 fabrication of different small parts of the watch 

 having been monopolised by the factories, the 

 workshops began to manufacture the small parts 

 of the bicycles, and later on of the motor-cars. 

 In short, we have here quite a world of indus- 

 tries of modern origin, and with them of inven- 

 tions made to simplify the work of the hand. 



Finally, omitting a mass of small trades, 1 

 will only name the hat-makers of the Loire, the 

 stationery of the Ardeche, the fabrication of 

 hardware in the Doubs, the glove-makers of 

 the Isere, the broom and brush-makers of the 

 Oise (valued at 800,000 per annum), and the 

 house machine-knitting in the neighbourhoods 

 of Troyes. But I must say a few words more 

 about two important centres of small industries : 

 the Lyons region and Paris. 



At the present time the industrial region of 



