#french peasant

[harvestheart]

Artist Jules Adolphe Breton

Title The Song of the Lark

Origin:  France Date: 1884 Medium: Oil on canvas

[poncho-poncho]

I cannot fully describe the feeling I feel in interchangeably taking a bite of a cheddar cheese stick and then sticking a grape in my mouth. Am I ratatouille? Am I a French peasant? I don’t know but I can tell you it’s incredible.

[jeannemeeks]

Gossip and News: How 17th Century French Peasants Shared Information

We can’t live without our phones, email, TV, and podcasts. How did the people of yore manage? In a 17th-century French village, news traveled at the pace of footsteps and farm carts, stitched together by habit, ritual, and the human love of a good story. Most peasants lived within a few kilometers of one another and relied on a handful of communal spaces to exchange information—none more central…

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[jeannemeeks]

Death Was Different Then…or Was It?

In seventeenth-century rural France, death was a communal matter, marked by ritual, prayer, and neighborly duty. Death was announced by the tolling of the church bell…the death knell…and everyone knew from its sound whether the deceased was male, female, or a child.  As soon as possible, women prepared the body, dressed it in simple linen, and laid it on a table or board in the main room of the…

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[white-trash-apollo]

sometimes you just gotta eat a whole loaf of bread with cheese like the lowly french peasant you are