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I discovered these old prints of the south of France in a second-hand bookshop in Yokohama in the mid-1990s. They’re reproductions of chromographic photographs (photochromes) taken by Msr Giletta at the beginning of the 20th century when the watering holes of the Midi were fashionable with the English beau monde. It’s a horse and carriage […]http://padraigrooney.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Cannes-001-1000x733.jpg