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manufacture only dates from the year 1870. It was 

 in that year, a few months before the outbreak of 

 the great Franco-German war, that the Emperor 

 Napoleon III. commissioned M. Mege-Mouries to 

 carry out experiments with a view to discover a 



FIG. 20. BUTTER. Magnified 350 diameters. (Bell.) 



good substitute for butter, for the use, in the first 

 instance, of the French marines and the poorer 

 inhabitants of Paris. The result was an article 

 which was first known as " Margarine-Mouries." 

 This substance was prepared in a simple manner 

 from the best animal tallow. 



