Category: Brocante
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French Antique Textile Heaven during the French Muse Experience
Boxes and boxes and more boxes stacked on table after table. But better than that everything was at least a hundred years old, and nothing was junk. We took our four wonderful friends who are following our French Muse…
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French Muse
When you have been antiquing for half a century this is what your collection might look like. A friend of The French Muse, a French antique dealer extraordinaire, offered to open her home, serve us lunch and give us…
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French Muse Private Brocante
In a garden where irises, roses, and an 150 year old linden tree stood, we went to a private brocante set up just for us. Table after table of French antique textiles. Boutis, Silk, Linen, Monograms,…
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I Wonder if he Returned
"Ma Chère", The letter begins like many others with a tender greeting. Though the force of the words that followed were like none I had ever read… Was this postcard from her beloved, suffering beyond her reach? Had she held…
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Brocante Weakness, That French History Lesson Kissing my Cheek
Two hundred year old French plates. You would think they would be hard to come by. Though they are everywhere I look. I usually glance at them and walk by. I hear myself saying, "Weird patterns. I prefer…
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A Girl with a Key
A girl with a key, a car and wanting to drive all over France. I woke her up early this morning to declare that it had stopped raining, "Brocante baby!" We were out of the house in fifteen minutes…
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