Category: Brocante
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Antique Baby Rattles Charm Older Woman
Baby rattles are not practical for someone who doesn’t have a baby and is half as old as they are, if not more. Yet, when I saw them, I wanted them. “I could make them into a charm bracelet!” That…
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Raining Cats and Dogs
Rain and Snow do not happen often in the South of France, but when it does, it does so with vengeance, like a mad dog after a sneaky cat. Since yesterday morning it has continuously done one or the other; Rained cats…
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Fleur de Lys grow in France
Iron rods with Fleur de Lys make interesting tough flowers in the winter time. The zinc jugs haven’t held anything this solid before. I like the colors of the rusty iron, rock wall and zinc cans. How does your garden…
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Louie Louie and the Art of Louis 16th
Louis 16th Sofa leg, without a ribbon around its knee. The real thing. It hasn’t exercised in years! Whatever is its secret! The leg is steady on its heel and stands as straight and tall as the day it was…
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Love Letters
Antique French Love Letters, inked on paper with a quill, tender thoughts from a man to his woman, his heart expressed like many unfolded pages, in perfect script dated 1769, before any of our hearts had such pleasure of being…
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Brocante in France
The best Brocante market, upper-scale flea market, is in a cow pasture. Those two words don’t seem to go together, but there they are brocante and cow pasture, side by side. Besides looking for antiques one has to be careful…