Set of 27 letters addressed to the Lenglart and Carpentier sisters, Lille’s most important lace merchants of the 18th century.

27 letters (approx. 250 x 190 mm), 45 pp. of correspondence.

Interesting correspondence on the trade in Lille lace in France and abroad in the 18th century, with two letters containing samples.
The letters are sometimes annotated with details of the business in progress (payment, shipment, names and addresses of commission agents, replies sent).

The first four letters are addressed between 1731 and 1739 to Monsieur Carpentier, Marchand des dentelles and Marchand banquier.
This may have been the father-in-law of Nicolas Hubert Lenglart (1701-1766), seigneur de la Motte, de Ponchel-Englier et de Lannoy, alderman of Lille, who married Alexandrine Carpentier in 1738.
The following fifteen letters are addressed between 1746 and 1766 to Messrs Lenglart and Carpentier soeurs. This family association was the most important player in the Lille lace trade at the time. The letters are signed by customers from all over France (Bordeaux, Caen, Mâcon, Noyon, Paris, Rouen, Toulouse) and London.
Charles Lenglart (1740-1816), Nicolas Hubert Lenglart's only son, continued the business after his father's death in 1766.
The following eight letters are addressed to him between 1774 and 1792.

While the vast majority of these letters relate directly to the lace trade, some later ones concern banking matters, lawsuits, or wine shipments. Some customers take the opportunity to give interesting news, mentioning, for example, the inoculation of the royal family (1774).

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