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[148] In Maine-et-Loire, la Vendée, Loire Inférieure, and Deux-Sèvres. The same revival takes place in Ireland, where the weaving of handkerchiefs in hand-looms is growing in the shape of a small village industry.

[149] Ardouin Dumazet, vol. i., p. 117 _et seq._

[150] Twelve thousand in 1906.

[151] Ardouin Dumazet, vol. v., p. 270.

[152] _Ibid._, vol. v., p. 215.

[153] Ardouin Dumazet, vol. v., pp. 259-266.

[154] I gave some information about French prison work in a book, _In Russian and French Prisons_, London, 1888.

[155] Ardouin Dumazet, vol. ii., p. 51.

[156] _Ibid._, vol. i., pp. 305, 306.

[157] Ardouin Dumazet, vol. i., p. 52.

[158] Prof. Issaieff in the Russian _Memoirs of the Petty Trades Commission_ (_Trudy Kustarnoi Kommissii_), vol. v.

[159] Knives are sold at from 6s. 4d. to 8s. per gross, and razors at 3s. 3d. per gross--“for export.”

[160] Ardouin Dumazet, vol. i., p. 213 _et seq._

[161] Ardouin Dumazet, vol. viii., p. 40.

[162] Interesting details about the small industries of this region will be found in the articles of Ch. Guieysse, in _Pages libres_, 1902, Nos. 66 and 71.

[163] Ardouin Dumazet, vol. xxiii., pp. 105, 106.

[164] For further details see Appendix U.

[165] Ardouin Dumazet, vol. viii., p. 266.

[166] Some further details about the Lyons region and St. Etienne are given in Appendix U.

[167] In 1873, out of a total population of 1,851,800 inhabiting Paris, 816,040 (404,408 men and 411,632 women) were living on industry, and out of them only 293,691 were connected with the factories (_grande industrie_), while 522,349 were living on the petty trades (_petite industrie_).--Maxime du Camp, _Paris et ses Organes_, vol. vi. It is interesting to note that of late the small workshops where some of the finest work is made in metals, wood, and so on, have begun to be scattered round Paris.

[168] Everyone knows what an immense progress has been realised since by the motors used in motor cars and aeroplanes, and what is achieved now by the transmission of electrical power. But I leave these lines as they were written, as a testimony of the way in which the conquest of air began, and of the part taken in it by the French small industry.