Entre Les Murs

Too Brocante To Fix

I walked with Janet part of the way to her office this morning, by a roundabout route that took us to a brocante market that has been set up in our neighbourhood for the weekend.



Shops, shows and markets that deal in brocante are fairly common. There is some effort to enforce that only genuine antiques (or "antiquités") are so called; if your goods don't qualify, you use the alternative term, which is, as we learned this morning, a nice word for junk. We'd hoped to do a little Christmas shopping, but no treasures leapt out of this midden.

posted 11.12.05