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Identifier: ourhomeinaveyron00davirich (find matches)
Title: Our home in Aveyron : with studies of peasant life and customs in Aveyron and the Lot
Year: 1891 (1890s)

George Christopher Davies  (1849–1922)
Alternative names	G. Christopher Davies
Description	British photographer
Date of birth/death	1849	29 November 1922
Location of birth/death	Oswestry	Norwich
Work period	1864 –1885
Work location	Norwich (1864–1885)
Authority file	: Q22669920 VIAF: 58638567 ISNI: 0000000064032600 ULAN: 500013493 LCCN: no90013859 NLA: 35257801 WorldCat

Subjects: Aveyron (France) -- Description and travel Lot (France) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh London : W. Blackwood
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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two white-robed figures were struggling with refractory tripods, which would slip on the polished floor; and presently out of two windows overlooking the road there peeped the brass tubes of the lenses, the rest of the apparatus being concealed by the curtains being cunningly pinned over them. Just below the window was a bridge over a purling stream, and a rude wooden cross leaned half against the bridge ; and the procession was expected to pauseat this cross, which bore some special repute. Thesound of the chanting drew nearer, accompanied with the tramp of many feet, and soon the procession, of some hundreds of people, came in view. First men bearing a banner, inscribed Marie, protege vos enfants; then peasants, three and four abreast, clad in their best black blouses and soft, black, wide-brimmed hats, the effect being somewhat marred by the men keeping their hands in their trousers-pockets, which bunches the blouses up unbecomingly; then the young men and the small boys, the latter march-
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A RELIGIOUS PROCESSION. ing sturdily along, as if highly conscious of the importance of the proceeding; then the priest in his white robes, preceded by the crucifix, and, book in hand, leading the chant; then the little girls, and behind them the bigger girls, the young women, then the matrons, and, last of all, the old women, all neatly and tidily clad. As they passed the cross, the priest bowed and crossed himself, and the instantaneous shutters clicked, and the lenses caught him in the act. The faithless curtains became unpinned, and revealed our instruments, so that every eye was up-turned. I was horribly afraid that I was doing-something irreverent and repugnant to the taste of the people ; but every face wore a pleased and conscious smile, and there was a general involuntary straightening up to look their best; so that my fears were dismissed. We got them again upon their return, and then we noticed that while the men and boys marched steadily on without turning their heads in our direction

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