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Let's hope this thread turns out a bit better than the last one!!

This one depicts a hunter returning home with nothing and then seductively getting a pitcher of milk poured all over him.

And of course there's a Lefaucheux pinfire double in all the pics!


Ah! la, la, zut quelle chasse
En fait de gibier j'ai bien peur
Moi qui révais de tas en masse
De rentrer bredouille, ah! malheur!


Tiens, tiens, la petite friponne
Ou courez-vous la belle enfant?
De bon lait frais, crémeux et blanc
Voulez-vous me faire l'aumône?


Versez encor.... versez l'ivresse!!
Oui! mais j'vas vous inonder!!


Ca ne fait rien, si je vous presse
C'est pour mieux me désaltérer!


Là, j'l'avais dit, a-t'on point vu
Pareille façon de boire
Ma fi, vous l'avez bien voulu
Ah, ah, j'en ris là bonne histoire


Tout cela c'est bien bel et bon
Mais voici que la cruche est vide..
Ma bouche, elle, est toujours avide
Rafraichissez-moi s'il vous plaît.

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).

These are fun. Thanks, Aaron. Argo, I appreciate the explanations of the French language.

ive seen this series of french post cards before...

cept the last six are missin...

I'll photograph the backs for you Gene and you can read about their romance!

I think it is a play on a more common idiom of qui s'y frotte, s'y pique

Wife says it's something like...."if you rub against it, you'll get wet too." The meaning is similar to "play with fire" but in this case, it more like "if you get too close, you'll suffer." Gene.

I love the cards. The absolute clarity and sharpness I find amazing.

Can we deduce from the photos that at least this Frenchman is not well grounded in gun safety, and also care. Laying a what I presume is a loaded double barrel shotgun down in the dust and dirt as shown in the photo here goes against the grain of what my elders taught me> he might well have put it on his hat, also on the ground. Also this leaves some chance of something getting into the muzzles, wind blown dirt, debris, whatever- not a good thing! RWTF

Oui, we can.



(Didn’t you call someone a crackhead once? De rien)


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