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  • Cogs of a Monsieur Lonfier sewing machine, detail, manufactured from 1957, at the Ateliers de la Garde Republicaine, or workshops of the Republican Guard, 10, Avenue de la Republique, Paris, France. The machine is used by saddle harnessers responsible for maintaining the saddles and weapon harnesses, some dating from the First World War and still used by the cavalry regiment, using high quality leather and traditional manufacturing methods. The Garde Republicaine was founded by Napoleon in 1802. It is part of the Gendarmerie and is responsible for security, guards of honour, military ceremonies and horseback patrols. In its workshops, master craftsmen maintain the equipment used by the horsemen and infantrymen, using traditional and sometimes ancient techniques passed down through the generations. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sewing machine stitching leather at the Ateliers de la Garde Republicaine, or workshops of the Republican Guard, 10, Avenue de la Republique, Paris, France. Saddle harnessers maintain the saddles and weapon harnesses, some dating from the First World War and still used by the cavalry regiment, using high quality leather and traditional manufacturing methods. The Garde Republicaine was founded by Napoleon in 1802. It is part of the Gendarmerie and is responsible for security, guards of honour, military ceremonies and horseback patrols. In its workshops, master craftsmen maintain the equipment used by the horsemen and infantrymen, using traditional and sometimes ancient techniques passed down through the generations. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Wheel of a Monsieur Lonfier sewing machine, detail, manufactured from 1957 and the most used machine of that decade, at the Ateliers de la Garde Republicaine, or workshops of the Republican Guard, 10, Avenue de la Republique, Paris, France. The machine is used by saddle harnessers responsible for maintaining the saddles and weapon harnesses, some dating from the First World War and still used by the cavalry regiment, using high quality leather and traditional manufacturing methods. The Garde Republicaine was founded by Napoleon in 1802. It is part of the Gendarmerie and is responsible for security, guards of honour, military ceremonies and horseback patrols. In its workshops, master craftsmen maintain the equipment used by the horsemen and infantrymen, using traditional and sometimes ancient techniques passed down through the generations. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Saddle harnesser at work at a Monsieur Lonfier sewing machine, manufactured from 1957, at the Ateliers de la Garde Republicaine, or workshops of the Republican Guard, 10, Avenue de la Republique, Paris, France. Saddle harnessers are responsible for maintaining the saddles and weapon harnesses, some dating from the First World War and still used by the cavalry regiment, using high quality leather and traditional manufacturing methods. The Garde Republicaine was founded by Napoleon in 1802. It is part of the Gendarmerie and is responsible for security, guards of honour, military ceremonies and horseback patrols. In its workshops, master craftsmen maintain the equipment used by the horsemen and infantrymen, using traditional and sometimes ancient techniques passed down through the generations. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Femme cousant dans un interieur, or Woman sewing in an interior, oil painting, 1905, by Felix Vallotton, 1865-1925, in the Musee d'Art Moderne de Troyes, inaugurated 1982, in the former Episcopal Palace, built 16th and 17th centuries, in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France. The museum holds French painting collections from the mid 19th century to 1960s. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seamstresses at work on sewing machines in the workshop at Les Toiles du Soleil, a shop selling traditional catalan artisanal woven cloth, on Place Gambetta, Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. The Sans et Garcerie factory in Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans, founded in 1897, was bought by Francoise and Henri Quinta and they developed a range of traditional fabrics in bold catalan colours, and sell a range of canvas or fabric by the metre, upholstery fabric, household linen, coated fabrics and table linen. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Saddle harnesser threading a Monsieur Lonfier sewing machine, manufactured from 1957, at the Ateliers de la Garde Republicaine, or workshops of the Republican Guard, 10, Avenue de la Republique, Paris, France. Saddle harnessers are responsible for maintaining the saddles and weapon harnesses, some dating from the First World War and still used by the cavalry regiment, using high quality leather and traditional manufacturing methods. The Garde Republicaine was founded by Napoleon in 1802. It is part of the Gendarmerie and is responsible for security, guards of honour, military ceremonies and horseback patrols. In its workshops, master craftsmen maintain the equipment used by the horsemen and infantrymen, using traditional and sometimes ancient techniques passed down through the generations. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Laundry room of the Chateau Frontenac with women at work at a mangle, sewing machine and wooden wash tub, photograph, from the Archives of the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The Chateau Frontenac opened in 1893 and was designed by Bruce Price as a chateau style hotel for the Canadian Pacific Railway company or CPR. It was extended in 1924 by William Sutherland Maxwell. The building is now a hotel, the Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac, and is listed as a National Historic Site of Canada. The Historic District of Old Quebec is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Copyright Archives Chateau Frontenac / Manuel Cohen
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  • Two-storey branch of fashion retailer AllSaints, 2009, furnished with antique Singer sewing machines, Portobello Road Antiques Market, Notting Hill, London, UK. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Craftsman sewing the horsehair mane of a cavalry helmet, at the Ateliers de la Garde Republicaine, or workshops of the Republican Guard, 10, Avenue de la Republique, Paris, France. The Empire cuirassier cavalry helmets are made from over 80 pieces of steel or brass riveted or welded on site. The Garde Republicaine was founded by Napoleon in 1802. It is part of the Gendarmerie and is responsible for security, guards of honour, military ceremonies and horseback patrols. In its workshops, master craftsmen maintain the equipment used by the horsemen and infantrymen, using traditional and sometimes ancient techniques passed down through the generations. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Poppy Fuller Abbot, a weaver and textile artist, at work sewing by hand in her studio at Cockpit Arts, a social enterprise and creative business incubator in Deptford, London, UK. Poppy creates abstract textile designs often inspired by magic, and has an experimental approach, using sustainable paper yarn and natural dyes in her textiles. Cockpit was founded in 1986 with 5 units opening in Cockpit Yard in Holborn, and now supports 170 businesses in the Holborn and Deptford sites. Creatives receive training, support and bursaries and work across a wide range of art and craft practices. Photographed on 31st May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Poppy Fuller Abbot, a weaver and textile artist, at work sewing by hand in her studio at Cockpit Arts, a social enterprise and creative business incubator in Deptford, London, UK. Poppy creates abstract textile designs often inspired by magic, and has an experimental approach, using sustainable paper yarn and natural dyes in her textiles. Cockpit was founded in 1986 with 5 units opening in Cockpit Yard in Holborn, and now supports 170 businesses in the Holborn and Deptford sites. Creatives receive training, support and bursaries and work across a wide range of art and craft practices. Photographed on 31st May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Arrest of St Crispin and St Crispinian, polychrome sculptural group, 16th century, in the Eglise Saint-Pantaleon, built 16th century by Jean Bailly and rebuilt 1527-33 by Maurice Favereau after a fire, in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France. The shoemaker saints are cutting leather and sewing a shoe sole, while soldiers sent by emperor Maximian arrest them. The church and sculpture are listed as historic monuments. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Crocodile Sewing Zone at Lacoste Operations in the historic Lacoste factory in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France. Lacoste is a ready-to-wear clothing and accessories company founded 1933 by tennis players Rene Lacoste and Andre Gillier, based in Troyes. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Azulejos tiles with painted scene of servants sewing and washing up in a kitchen, 1789, at the Palau del Marques de Dosaigues, a Rococo palace of the Marqueses of Dos Aguas, in Valencia, Spain. Azulejos tiles are Portuguese and Spanish painted tin-glazed ceramic tiles. The building was originally built in Gothic style in the 15th century, but was remodelled in 1740 for the 3rd marquis of Dos Aguas, Gines Rabassa de Perellos y Lanuza, 1706-65, by Hipolito Rovira Meri, Ignacio Vergara and Luis Domingo. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Poppy Fuller Abbot, a weaver and textile artist, at work sewing by hand in her studio at Cockpit Arts, a social enterprise and creative business incubator in Deptford, London, UK. Poppy creates abstract textile designs often inspired by magic, and has an experimental approach, using sustainable paper yarn and natural dyes in her textiles. Cockpit was founded in 1986 with 5 units opening in Cockpit Yard in Holborn, and now supports 170 businesses in the Holborn and Deptford sites. Creatives receive training, support and bursaries and work across a wide range of art and craft practices. Photographed on 31st May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
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  • Poppy Fuller Abbot, a weaver and textile artist, at work sewing by hand in her studio at Cockpit Arts, a social enterprise and creative business incubator in Deptford, London, UK. Poppy creates abstract textile designs often inspired by magic, and has an experimental approach, using sustainable paper yarn and natural dyes in her textiles. Cockpit was founded in 1986 with 5 units opening in Cockpit Yard in Holborn, and now supports 170 businesses in the Holborn and Deptford sites. Creatives receive training, support and bursaries and work across a wide range of art and craft practices. Photographed on 31st May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
    LC20_CockpitJune2019_MC_148.jpg
  • Cutting and tailoring at Lacoste Operations in the historic Lacoste factory in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France. Lacoste is a ready-to-wear clothing and accessories company founded 1933 by tennis players Rene Lacoste and Andre Gillier, based in Troyes. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Patrick Verlay, Clothing Director at Lacoste, at Lacoste Operations in the historic Lacoste factory in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France. Lacoste is a ready-to-wear clothing and accessories company founded 1933 by tennis players Rene Lacoste and Andre Gillier, based in Troyes. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Alberto is assembling the folios of the facsimile with natural string at the printing studio of Scriptorium SL in Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sergio is assembling the folios of the facsimile with natural string at the printing studio of Scriptorium SL in Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sergio is assembling the folios of the facsimile with natural string at the printing studio of Scriptorium SL in Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Alberto is assembling the folios of the facsimile with natural string at the printing studio of Scriptorium SL in Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Alberto is assembling the folios of the facsimile with natural string at the printing studio of Scriptorium SL in Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Alberto is assembling the folios of the facsimile with natural string at the printing studio of Scriptorium SL in Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Alberto is assembling the folios of the facsimile with natural string at the printing studio of Scriptorium SL in Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Alberto is assembling the folios of the facsimile with natural string at the printing studio of Scriptorium SL in Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Alberto is assembling the folios of the facsimile with natural string at the printing studio of Scriptorium SL in Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Alberto is assembling the folios of the facsimile with natural string at the printing studio of Scriptorium SL in Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sergio is assembling the folios of the facsimile with natural string at the printing studio of Scriptorium SL in Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Arrest of Crispin and Crispinian, polychrome sculptural group, mid 16th century, in the Eglise Saint-Pantaleon, built 16th - 18th century, in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France. The sculpture depicts Crepinien cutting leather and Crepin mending a show, while soldiers arrive to arrest them. The Flemish inspired sculpture depicts 16th century fashion. The church is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • People restoring a tapestry at the Atelier de Restauration des Tapis, or Carpet Restoration Workshop, at the Gobelins Manufactory, a historic tapestry workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop restores tapestries, wall hangings, seat covers, fireplace screens and lockstitch screens, used in state buildings, exhibitions and museums. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Man restoring a chair in the Atelier de Tapisserie d'Ameublement, or Upholstery Workshop, at the Gobelins Manufactory, a historic tapestry workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop restores furniture upholstery using traditional horsehair techniques, on pieces from the 17th to early 20th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fabric shop occupying the ground floor of the Casa Navas, built 1902-7 in Modernist style by Lluis Domenech i Montaner, 1850-1923, Catalan Modernist architect, on the Plaza del Mercadal or Market Square in Reus, Catalonia, Spain. The house was built for Joaquim Navas Padro. The building is listed as a national monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Alberto is assembling the folios of the facsimile with natural string at the printing studio of Scriptorium SL in Valencia, Spain. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Customisation area, Polo Customised, where customers choose a custom crocodile and shirt, at Lacoste Operations in the historic Lacoste factory in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France. Lacoste is a ready-to-wear clothing and accessories company founded 1933 by tennis players Rene Lacoste and Andre Gillier, based in Troyes. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Threads in the Atelier de Restauration des Tapis, or Carpet Restoration Workshop, at the Gobelins Manufactory, a historic tapestry workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop restores tapestries, wall hangings, seat covers, fireplace screens and lockstitch screens, used in state buildings, exhibitions and museums. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • People restoring fabrics at the Atelier de Restauration des Tapis, or Carpet Restoration Workshop, at the Gobelins Manufactory, a historic tapestry workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop restores tapestries, wall hangings, seat covers, fireplace screens and lockstitch screens, used in state buildings, exhibitions and museums. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Atelier de Restauration des Tapis, or Carpet Restoration Workshop, at the Gobelins Manufactory, a historic tapestry workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop restores tapestries, wall hangings, seat covers, fireplace screens and lockstitch screens, used in state buildings, exhibitions and museums. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Woman restoring a tapestry at the Atelier de Restauration des Tapis, or Carpet Restoration Workshop, at the Gobelins Manufactory, a historic tapestry workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop restores tapestries, wall hangings, seat covers, fireplace screens and lockstitch screens, used in state buildings, exhibitions and museums. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • People at work in the Atelier de Tapisserie de Decor, or Soft Furnishings Workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop creates, maintains, restores and installs curtains, bed linen, canopies, wall hangings and woven carpet, as well as working on new contemporary pieces. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • People at work in the Atelier de Tapisserie de Decor, or Soft Furnishings Workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop creates, maintains, restores and installs curtains, bed linen, canopies, wall hangings and woven carpet, as well as working on new contemporary pieces. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC20_PARIS_MC_088.jpg
  • Poppy Fuller Abbot, a weaver and textile artist, at work in her studio at Cockpit Arts, a social enterprise and creative business incubator in Deptford, London, UK. Poppy creates abstract textile designs often inspired by magic, and has an experimental approach, using sustainable paper yarn and natural dyes in her textiles. Cockpit was founded in 1986 with 5 units opening in Cockpit Yard in Holborn, and now supports 170 businesses in the Holborn and Deptford sites. Creatives receive training, support and bursaries and work across a wide range of art and craft practices. Photographed on 31st May 2019 by Manuel Cohen
    LC20_CockpitJune2019_MC_147.jpg
  • Saddle harnesser at work at the Ateliers de la Garde Republicaine, or workshops of the Republican Guard, 10, Avenue de la Republique, Paris, France. Saddle harnessers are responsible for maintaining the saddles and weapon harnesses, some dating from the First World War and still used by the cavalry regiment, using high quality leather and traditional manufacturing methods. The Garde Republicaine was founded by Napoleon in 1802. It is part of the Gendarmerie and is responsible for security, guards of honour, military ceremonies and horseback patrols. In its workshops, master craftsmen maintain the equipment used by the horsemen and infantrymen, using traditional and sometimes ancient techniques passed down through the generations. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Embroidered Arabic calligraphy, Ottoman period, from Kajtaz House, a traditional Islamic home, originally the harem of a larger homestead built for a 16th century Turkish judge, in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The town is named after the mostari or bridge keepers of the Stari Most or Old Bridge. Mostar developed in the 15th and 16th centuries as an Ottoman frontier town and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Man restoring a sofa in the Atelier de Tapisserie d'Ameublement, or Upholstery Workshop, at the Gobelins Manufactory, a historic tapestry workshop, at Le Mobilier National, which commissions and conserves state furniture, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The workshop restores furniture upholstery using traditional horsehair techniques, on pieces from the 17th to early 20th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mannequin outside the Le Bonheur des Dames shop, specialising in embroidery and haberdashery, selling Cecile Vessiere patterns since 1979, in the Passage Verdeau, a covered shopping arcade built in 1847, with a Neoclassical high glazed roof in fishbone design and many antique shops, in the Grands Boulevards district of the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. The arcade is a continuation of the Jouffroy and des Panoramas arcades, with entrances at the Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre and Rue de la Grange-Bateliere. The arcade is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Catherine Brechkovsky, 1844-1934, known as the grandmother of the Revolution, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3865, 31st March 1917. Breshkovsky was given a seat in Aleksandr Kerensky's government after the February Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Painting by Joseph Bail, 1862-1921, showing the nuns at the Hospice de Beaune mending sheets in their spare time, at Les Hospices de Beaune, or Hotel-Dieu de Beaune, a charitable almshouse and hospital for the poor, built 1443-57 by Flemish architect Jacques Wiscrer, and founded by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, and his wife Guigone de Salins, in Beaune, Cote d'Or, Burgundy, France. Bail made many paintings of life in the Hospices. The hospital was run by the nuns of the order of Les Soeurs Hospitalieres de Beaune, and remained a hospital until the 1970s. The building now houses the Musee de l'Histoire de la Medecine, or Museum of the History of Medicine, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Embroidered Arabic calligraphy, Ottoman period, from Kajtaz House, a traditional Islamic home, originally the harem of a larger homestead built for a 16th century Turkish judge, in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The town is named after the mostari or bridge keepers of the Stari Most or Old Bridge. Mostar developed in the 15th and 16th centuries as an Ottoman frontier town and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Illustration of the food market at Les Halles in Paris, France, on 14th July 1887, printed in a French publication. In front of the food stalls, a man sells hats and flags, and women make paper chain decorations and sew tricolore flags, in celebration of Bastille Day. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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