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À la veille de la Révolution française, toute l'Europe accourt dans la capitale du luxe pour s’approvisionner en draps fins, porcelaines de Sèvres, miroirs de Saint-Gobain, soieries lyonnaises, dentelles d’Alençon et autres témoignages éclatants d'un savoir-faire admiré dans toutes les cours du continent. Plus de deux siècles plus tard, la France reste un symbole international du luxe, entre haute couture, cosmétiques et grands vins, mais on a oublié qu’elle le doit à l’ambition de Louis XIV et à la vision de son ministre Colbert, qui ont créé de toutes pièces un... Regarder
If France symbolizes luxury on the international market, it owes it to Louis XIV and his minister Colbert. A fascinating look back at more than a century of scientific and technical innovation, but also of industrial espionage.
On the eve of the French Revolution, all of Europe flocked to the luxury capital to stock up on fine linens, Sèvres porcelain, Saint-Gobain mirrors, Lyon silks, Alençon lace and other dazzling testimonies of a know-how admired in all the courts of the continent. More than two centuries later, France remains an international symbol of luxury, between... See more
On the eve of the French Revolution, all of Europe flocked to the luxury capital to stock up on fine linens, Sèvres porcelain, Saint-Gobain mirrors, Lyon silks, Alençon lace and other dazzling testimonies of a know-how admired in all the courts of the continent. More than two centuries later, France remains an international symbol of luxury, between... See more
