"I'm very attached to the company and I don't want it to close, for the story to end. We're trying to keep the enamels alive as much as possible," explains an employee at the Manufacture des Emaux de Longwy. This 200-year-old earthenware factory in Meurthe-et-Moselle has applied for a court-ordered reorganisation to give itself a new lease of life. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES