Le textile dans le Nord : Histoire et patrimoine - Terres de France

Official YouTube channel of the Terres de France program. Today, Charlotte Dekoker welcomes you to an episode about an important chapter in the history of Northern France: the textile industry. Roubaix was considered the textile capital of Europe. To share this history, Charlotte invites you to visit two key sites: The Manufacture de Roubaix. This former textile factory, now a museum, traces the history of textiles from the first looms to industrialization. Then, Charlotte will take you on a tour of the sublime and astonishing Villa Cavrois, built by the architect Robert Mallet-Stevens for the textile industrialist Paul Cavrois. First broadcast: February 24, 2019. More information and replays: http://www.terresdefrance.tv