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At grandmother's house - interior of a Breton village home, Crach, France -  circa 1900

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At grandmother's house - interior of a Breton village home, Crach, France - circa 1900

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I love the bed up so high and tucked away behind the curtains...Written on reverse:.The village is near Auray on the west coast of Brittany, not far from the famous Druid stones of Carnac. It is a small place, where the few people work hard to get a scanty living out of the sea and their little farms. In summertime a good many artists and tourist sight-seers come to this part of Brittany in search of the picturesque, but most of the year life here is lived in a very narrow round. This old woman and her home are thoroughly typical. Her clothes are mostly of homespun stuff, though factory-woven cloth is now becoming common hereabouts. Those rush-bottomed chairs have probably served three or four generations in her own or her husband's family. Notice the quaint bed, built into the side of the room, piled high with bags of feathers and screened by curtains. Such a sleeping place is the pride of an orthodox housekeeper in this region. The wooden chest behind her holds extra linen and best clothes frugally folded away. Notice the vases of dried grass and artificial flowers. Above them hangs an illustrated engraving of the Pater Noster (the Lord's Prayer) in French. There are shelves behind those gay hangings above the fireplace. That stewpan on the hearth has held many a savoury cabbage soup. The shallow covered dish, resting on a skeleton support over the coals, is a bake-kettle, in which she cooks whatever cannot be stewed or roasted directly before the blaze..Countrywomen like this one are shrewd and devoutly pious, but usually illiterate and conservatively devoted to their old accustomed ways. The French they speak is as different from Parisian French as Highland Scotch is from English.

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Kaye, (Aussie~mobs), a "passionate collector and preserver of vintage photographs, especially those taken in Australia."
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