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French Antique Road Show
Summer was on a roll when I first met Lynn. Lynn wrote that she was an antique dealer coming to France to buy for her shop, she asked me if…
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Jonchet, a French Antique Game, and Peach Crumble
Oh no! It happened! Yesterday I stumped all of you with "The French Antique Guessing Game". I cannot believe it, out of the many guessing games I have had, I…
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Brocante Anonymous: Want to Join the Club?
This is the brocante explosion that has happened in our house. A small part of the stacks of things I collected over the last two weekends. A disarray affair with…
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Afternoon Delight at Grange Rouge Brocante
Grange Rouge Brocante in Louhans. French Husband offered to take me to the brocante in Grange Rouge. He drove the six hours trip in our very old car that recently…
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No place like home, unless it is the Brocante
French Husband is driving me to my favorite brocante in all of France! Chapelle Naude, or Grange Rouge, the brocante in a cow pasture. Boots are a must. I never…
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WWII Love Letters found at the Brocante
The other day at the brocante I found a stack of letters written during World War Two (WWII) between a husband and his wife. At first I was drawn to…
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………and the Winners of the French Guessing Game are:
The small wooden boxes with red wax seals where used to transport gold.People would buy gold (as a way to secure their paper money) and it was sent by mail…
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French Antique Guessing Game
Small paper boxes have a way with my heart. Old ones, that are battered with labels, ones like in yesterday's post that have memories tucked inside such as baby teeth,…
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A Man with a Doll, An Umbrella and Frog Legs…some of the things I found at the Brocante in Leyment
The man with a doll. I saw this man and his son several times throughout the day and each and every time I saw them he had this over-sized…
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