The text is pretty suggestive. I like the cross on the girl and traditional dress....that was old hard-working Catholic France before the great transition in the late 20th century.
The inscriptions are interesting. Marie was certainly sending kisses and close friendship to someone. This is not necessarily as sexual as it sounds except for the text on the cards. The last card is not signed by Marie and the handwriting is different. The addressee is incomprehensible to me but I'll try to figure it out with help from the usual. What she had in that jug was not milk...but milk was suggestive. The expression qui s'y frotte. . s'y mouille obviously has connotations I as a foreigner don't understand. (literally: Those who scratch get wet? Those who play with fire get burned?)
(To put in context, Europeans used to send post cards like we do Christmas cards now - a sort of "thinking of you" reminder with little text. I did this once a week from Greece to my father-in-law who was in the hospital in France for a several months in the early 1990's with a cursory text).
Gene
Nice gun...Lefaucheaux pin-fire in 1909?
We once had a knowledgable poster from France. Don't know whether he'll be back. (Oh well, the right to insult for no reason remains unabridged. Thanks).
Last edited by Argo44; 02/25/23 01:08 AM.
