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Showing posts with label EU-France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EU-France. Show all posts
February 4, 2018

3259 FRANCE (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) - Peasants of Ardeche in 1970's

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3259 Joseph, Noemie and Celestin, paysans d'Ardeche in 1970's Ardèche is a département in south-central France,  named after...
February 2, 2018

3255 FRANCE (Occitania) - The people of Lozère

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Located in the region of Occitanie in southern France near the Massif Central , Lozère is the least populated French department, due...
January 23, 2018

3250 FRANCE (Brittany) - A traditional breton farm

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The rural architecture of France has a rich variety, because the farms are the expression of the coexistence of several agrarian civili...
January 15, 2018

3246 FRANCE - Two elders, one glass, one bottle and one donkey

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December 12, 2016

2899, 2900 FRANCE (Île-de-France) - Bouquinistes on the banks of the Seine - part of Paris, Banks of the Seine (UNESCO WHS)

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2899 Bouquinistes on the banks of the Seine, with Notre Dame de Paris in background The Bouquinistes of Paris are booksellers of u...
October 14, 2016

2820 FRANCE (Occitania) - The Bethmale Valley

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Bethmale is a commune in southwestern France, in Pyrenees , with only 98 inhabitants (in 2013). Actually Bethmale is the name of a val...
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October 5, 2016

2800 FRANCE (New Aquitaine) - At the well sweep

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2800 Landes (Gascogne) - At the well sweep A well sweep is an device used to bring water up from a well. The materials needed to con...
October 3, 2016

2792 FRANCE (New Aquitaine) - Sequences of traditional life in La Marche

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La Marche is a French historical and cultural region, corresponding to a former province whose capital was Gueret (approximately the ...
July 26, 2016

2668 FRANCE - A farmer and his span of oxen

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It seems that the cattle were first harnessed and put to work around 4000 BC, and the castration of bulls to turn them into oxen have h...
April 9, 2016

2446, 2447 FRANCE (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) - Life in Faverger at early 20th century

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2446 Faverger - Peasants plowing at early 20th century Faverges is a commune (since 2016 Faverges-Seythenex) located in south-ea...
February 28, 2016

2335 FRANCE - Trust can save the future

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In 1866, the French priest Abbé Roussel took in care several orphans, who wandered on the streets of Paris. He wanted each child to be ...
December 25, 2015

2148 FRANCE (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) - Eugene B., the innocent from Beaufort

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December 22, 2015

2138 FRANCE (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) - Lacemakers from Villard sur Doron

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Villard sur Doron is a montain village with almost 700 inhabitants, located in Savoie , along the road from Albertville to Beaufort ,...
December 10, 2015

2109-2111 FRANCE (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) - People from Morvan

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2109 Morvan - A couple in front of the fireplace (The Galvachers from Morvan) The Morvan , the granite heart of  Burgundy ,, is a hig...
October 21, 2015

1979 FRANCE - Chou-Chou, Lolo, Simone and Genevieve at the Lucette's baptism, on June 5, 1932

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Since the invention of photography, people have wanted to immortalize the events more or less important of their lives, either to reliv...
September 18, 2015

1902 FRANCE - Society of Saint Vincent de Paul

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Founded in 1833 to help impoverished people living in the slums of Paris , the Society of St Vincent de Paul (SSVP) is an internationa...
September 8, 2015

1881 FRANCE - Two children

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I believe that this is an advertising postcard, issued by La Redoute , a French mail order company, a multi-line retailer specializing ...
September 5, 2014

1216 FRANCE - La vie est belle

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Obviously, the idea of this art photography is based on the contrast between the poster stuck on the wall and the man caught in a momen...
August 3, 2013

0781 FRANCE (Brittany) - A women from Pays Bigouden wearing "la brouette"

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I wrote a little about Brittany and its pays or bro ("country" in French , respectively Breton ) here , but if then it was a...
July 20, 2013

0754 FRANCE (Brittany) - Dance Gwenedour of Pays Pourlet

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Once, the Celts formed the largest group of peoples in Europe, covering a huge territory (from Ireland to Asia Minor, and from Iberian...
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