Re: [lace] Lace reference in Literature: LONG.......

[Ilske Thomsen]

Dear Mark,
With "Les Misérables" Victor Hugo want to show the society during the period 
Napoleon I and Louis Philippe named der Bürgerkönig - the king of (normal) 
people. He wrote several such sicial-critical novels. He wanted to show that 
kings and empereurs aren't any longer good for the people.
In that time there wasn't lace because Napoleon I had forbidden to make any 
lace. Stories tell us that all Chantilly lacemakers died under the guillotine 
this isn't true. True is that prickings and other materials were destroyed. And 
therefore a long time still noble men and women didn't use lace.
Lace started again around the 1840.
So I can't see any possibility to show lace in a play about les misérables.
By the way V. hugo wrote some more novels with social-critical background.
Do you know the painting "Nana" from Manet which shows a curtisan with one of 
her cavalier, about this theme Hugo also wrote a novel. Those books are still 
today very interesting to read.
If you google it you find a lot of pictures from films and from the musical 
perhaps this helps you.

Greetings from Hamburg were most pedestrian ways are icy and uneven and 
therefore dangerous
Ilske

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