On Feb 4, 2010, at 14:50, Mark, aka Tatman wrote:
Chapter XVI. How from a Brother One Becomes a
Father:
I know nothing about that, but just look at this
wonderful rosette which a slice of wood-cells of the pine presents
under
the microscope! Compare the most beautiful Mechlin lace
to that if you can! These thinkers forget to love.
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I assume Victor Hugo would have knowledge of this lace being made in
that
area of the country or knows that lace is prominent for this time???
He seems to be a history/research type of writer from my own
observation.
The time-frame and the "scene" of the Miserables -- written in 1862,
when Hugo was 60 -- is right after the French Revolution (1815-1835).
So, what Hugo writes about is not something he's likely to have known
first hand (even supposing, in the first place, he'd have been
interested in such detail), though the time lag is not all that great.
Given that lace is but a minor "frill", barely mentioned here and
there, I'd not expect him to be all that accurate about it *for the
time he was writing about*, though it might have been accurate enough
for when he was writing the book. I've seen such tiny anachronisms slip
into the writings of most meticulous researchers, down to and including
historians who slipped into writing fiction (my favourite "eye opener"
was a prisoner, being interrogated in prison and leaning negligently
against a chair-back. In the early Middle Ages).
So, it's (as we say in Polish): "the wisewoman predicted: (it could be)
this way, or (it could be) that way" :)
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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