These are some things that turned up in the shop....
The newspaper was pasted on the partition walls, under the 1960s wallpaper. The papers varied in age but seem mainly to be 1967.
There was one intact newspaper - I think it was found in one of the shop cupboards - which is dated 1964...
As well as these there were some old paperback books which seem to have belonged to a Fernand Duchiron (there were some address labels I found some weeks ago to a Mademoiselle Duchiron, and also a gas bill from 1984) but I reckon Fernand is a boys name... although I have found references which show that Ferdinand is a girl's name!
Well, whatever, the book below has an inscription of Fernand Duchiron in the front...
...and what I imagine is the shop stamp, on the next page...
It is rather fascinating to have this little snippet of history and I hope to find out more about this family, who lived in this building, with a shop selling umbrellas and knives.
It's so intersting to have a little bit of the history of your shop. I wonder if Frederique knows anything about them.
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