Category: Brocante
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Paper Addict Admiration
Going to the brocante is more than an addiction it is an admiration for the past, for the discoveries I learn and gather about France, French culture and history. A living…
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Antique Discoveries St Exupery
One never knows what one will find while antiquing, even if one has been to the same shop or fair over a million times and knows every nook and cranny with one's eyes closed. Though antiquing is a source…
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I Have Been Gone Antiquing
What else can I say? The last group of the French la Vie leaves tomorrow. And the next one starts at the end of June, I will be a grandmother by then. I still have places left for the June…
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My Mother’s Influence
Antiquing or the Brocante Bug as I have called it has been in my blood since I was a girl. The first thing I ever bought was a brown glass ink bottle, a small bone hand mirror, and a…
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What My Friend Found at the Brocante During the French La Vie, and She Wasn’t Going to Buy Anything
My friend Jennifer came to help me with the two back to back French la Vie Journeys that I led. She was Godsent. A ball of energy. Funny no really funny. Swore like a truck driver or better yet…