Ça sert à quoi un lavoir, on dirait une piscine ?
Même si les lavandières y plongeaient et débarbouillaient leurs Un autre lavoir à la Grée Blanche au bord du ruisseau était parfois inondé ; |
THE GARENNE WASHHOUSE/LE LAVOIR DE LA GARENNE
What is a “lavoir”? It looks like a swimming pool! In fact it is here that the “lavandieres”, the washer women, would wash the clothes and sheets of their customers in La Roche-Bernard, wheeling the linen in wooden wheelbarrows. This work was exclusively feminine and, whilst usually a social occasion with laughter and songs, would sometimes erupt into fierce arguments and fights. Another lavoir at La Grée Blanche (behind the old cinema) was often flooded so for this reason a third lavoir was constructed in Place du Dôme. This, along with an old fountain, is now under tarmac, behind the new cinema. |
cartes postales anciennes des 2 lavoirs vers 1905-1910
Vue prise en 2018