Erected into a duchy in 1414, Alençon was permanently attached to the royal domain in 1549, after the death of Marguerite de France said Marguerite d'Angouleme, sister of King Francis I, a widow in first marriage of the last Duke Charles IV. Colbert founded in 1665 with his famous factories of the famous point or point of France Alençon created in 1650 from the point of Venice. Alencon employed at the peak of his art until eight thousand lacemakers. The weaving of linen and hemp canvas in the seventeenth century brought prosperity. Alencon factory at that time, a kind of cloth called blancard or foil. The city is beginning an industrial revolution which the revocation of the Edict of Nantes deal a fatal blow by causing the run of industrial Huguenots to England and Holland.

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Starting point : Alençon
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