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making of various parts of ladies' dress occupy no 

 less than 22,000 operatives at Paris, and their pro- 

 duction attains 3,000,000 every year, while gowns 

 give occupation to 15,000 women, whose annual pro- 

 duction is valued at 2,400,000. Linen, shoes, gloves, 

 and so on, are as many important branches of the 

 petty trades and the Paris domestic industries, while 

 one-fourth part of the stays which are sewn in France 

 (500,000 out of 2,000,000) are made in Paris. 



Engraving, book-binding, and all kinds of fancy 

 stationery, as well as the manufacture of musical 

 and mathematical instruments, are again as many 

 branches in which the Paris workmen excel. Basket- 

 making is another very important item, the finest 

 sorts only being made in Paris, while the plainest sorts 

 are made in the centres mentioned in the text (Haute 

 Marne, Aisne, etc.). Brushes are also made in small 

 workshops, the trade being valued at 800,000 both at 

 Paris and in the neighbouring department of Oise. 



For furniture, there are at Paris as many as 4,340 

 workshops, in which three or four operatives per 

 workshop are employed on the average. In the 

 watch trade we find 2,000 workshops with only 6,000 

 operatives, and their production, about 1,000,000, 

 reaches nevertheless nearly one-third part of the total 

 watch production in France. The maroquinerie gives 

 the very high figure of 500,000, although it employs 

 only 1,000 persons, scattered in 280 workshops, this 

 high figure itself testifying to the high artistic value 

 of the Paris leather fancy goods. The jewelry, both 

 for articles of luxury, and for all descriptions of cheap 

 goods, is again one of the specialities of the Paris 

 petty trades ; and another well-known speciality is 

 the fabrication of artificial flowers. Finally, we must 

 mention the carriage and saddlery trades, which are 



