Wednesday, February 29, 2012

railway through the chestnut trees


A rather idyllic postcard from 1916 showing a level crossing and its keeper in the town of Villers-Cotterets in the heart of the Retz forest with the Passage des Chatagniers.  The Latin name for chestnut tree Castanea is where the word castanets comes from.

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