métiers en laitîe, looms for making woollen cloth

1. 35. et non-seulejnent àr'c. The meaning is that the profit derived from the manufactured silks rose far above the cost of the raw produce.

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1. II. ouvrages de rapport, works made of différent pièces, which put together [rapportées) form a kind of pattern.

1. 31. emportèrent, at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, when they fled the country.

1. 37. // s'en fallait àfc, the town of Paris was far from being vi'hat it is at the présent day.

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