Mid Summer (or: l'Hôtel de la Gare / the Royal Station Hotel)




Ah, the day was saved, stumbling on these banal pictures (taken back in July, in a small French town). Contemplating them, all anxiety and self-doubt were miraculously quelled. How absolutely re-assuring, how solid, how invigorating even, these images seemed.


Ceci est la Place de La Gare . This is the Station Square.


With flapping flags, obviously. And naturally with the Station Hotel (with shuttered windows and a neatly tiled roof) , and of course with a statue of a local famous 18th Century writer.


And with everything so very quiet and still and self-assured – an eternal fragment of French provincial life.





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