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and Condrieu, are one of the wealthiest parts 

 of all France, owing to the shrubberies and 

 nurseries, market-gardening, fruit-growing, vine- 

 growing, and cheese-making out of goats' milk. 

 House industries go there hand in hand with an 

 intelligent culture of the soil ; Condrieu, for 

 instance, is a famous centre for embroidery, 

 which is made partly by hand, as of old, and 

 partly by machinery. 



In the west of Lyons, at PArbresles, factories 

 have grown up for making silks and velvets ; 

 but a large part of the population still continue 

 to weave in their houses ; while farther west, 

 Panissieres is the centre of quite a number of 

 villages in which linen and silks are woven as 

 a domestic industry. Not all these workers 

 own their houses, but those, at least, who own or 

 rent a small piece of land or garden, or keep a 

 couple of cows, are said to be well off, and the 

 land, as a rule, is said to be admirably cultivated 

 by these weavers. 



The chief industrial centre of this part of the 

 Lyons region is certainly Tarare. At the time 

 when Reybaud wrote his already-mentioned 

 work, Le Coton, it was a centre for the manu- 

 facture of muslins and it occupied in this in- 

 dustry the same position as Leeds formerly 

 occupied in this country in the woollen cloth 

 trade. The spinning mills and the large finish- 



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