Le foyer des campagnes – Antique Wall Art
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A window into the past: Le foyer des campagnes, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Le foyer des campagnes
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Its French title, *Le foyer des campagnes*, roughly means "the hearth of the countryside," and the phrase points to the home fire as the center of rural life. Dated 1919, the year the Treaty of Versailles was negotiated, it reflects a French countryside that had lost many young men in the war. Farms in those years were often run by women, older men and children, so images of the hearth offered reassurance that family and village life would continue. Viewers at the time would likely have read it against that loss and the slow return of soldiers to their homes.
| Created / published | 1919 |
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| Original scan | 2,770 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1511_Le_foyer_des_campagnes_1919 |
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