Porcelain in England in 1748 in order to compete with imported porcelain, bone china is now made worldwide. The English had read the letters of Jesuit missionary Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles, which described Chinese porcelain manufacturing secrets in detail. One writer has speculated that a misunderstanding of the text could possibly have been responsible for the first attempts to use bone-ash as an ingredient of English porcelain, although this is not supported by researchers and historians. In China, kaolin was sometimes described as forming the 'bones' of the paste, while the 'flesh' was provided by the refined rocks suitable for the porcelain
Une double famille Une double famille Une double famille ("A Second Home") is a lengthy short story by Honoré de Balzac. The story first appeared in 1830 under the title "La femme vertueuse" ("The Virtuous Woman"). It was subsequently published in 1832 by Mame et Delaunay as part of Balzac's "Scènes de la vie privée" ("Scenes from Private Life"). In 1835 it appeared, in an edition by Madame Béchet, in the collection "Études de mœurs" ("Studies of Manners"). The novel only acquired its present title in 1842, when the fifth edition appeared in Volume I of the "Scenes from Private Life", which was