First in a narrow street is a bar that certainly hasn't seen any customer for a long time...
Location: Rue du Vieux Pont
Next comes this mysterious advert.
Aux classes laborieuses ... à tout le monde ... Franc par semaine | At the Working Classes' ... Everyone ... Franc per Week |
On the one hand, there were (and still are in a few towns) clothes shops called 'Aux classes laborieuses'. They specialized in clothes for work. So this could have been one of them. On the other hand, the last line, which quotes a price of one franc or less per week, could suggest a newspaper or magazine. Just to make it a bit more complicated, it seems there was something else painted where the second line stands.
Location: Avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny
Round the next corner was a business that catered for owners of horse-drawn vehicles.
[Harnesses of All Kinds]
A list of works undertaken was written on the blind window under 'genres'.
Garniture Peinture Forge et Charronage | Upholstery Painting Forge And Cartwright's Work |
Location: Rue de l'Abreuvoir
A few metres away, facing a shady square, stood this former bakery. It seems the premises housed another trade at some point.
Remont... [Remontant ?] Boulangerie | [Invigorating ?] Bakery |
Location: Rue du Vieux Pont
Finally, just by the bridge over the River Charente, one could buy some coal.
...ieurg...
The second line was painted twice and unfortunately I can't distinguish all the letters.
Location: Avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny
Tomorrow we'll cross the bridge and look at some of the ghost signs found in the city centre.
1 comment:
"Aux classes laborieuses" - in this context probably "For the workers", making this a minimum wage political message.
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