Lonely Ladies in Hats

Mike Alexander
4 min readSep 28, 2021

Saint Catherine’s day is the day of the unmarried woman

Image by congerdesign from Pixabay

InFrance, there are many towns that are associated with manufacturing of one kind or another, often in traditions that go back centuries. Millau, for example, is associated with leather gloves, while Aubusson is famed for its hand made tapestries. The next village up from where I live once employed thousands of people in the manufacture of straw hats and boaters, while…

--

--

Mike Alexander

France based freelance writer with a passion for the environment and quirky cultural history. http://mediumauthor.com/@mikealexander wordseeker46@yahoo.com