Grand-père Tavernier fut veuf trois fois. |
Après la mort de Grand-mère Treuch en 1940, il épousa "La Maria". Je me souviens de Maria habillée tout de noir ainsi que l'étaient souvent les vieilles paysannes de jadis. Je me rappelle aussi d'un après-midi très chaud où j'avais marché depuis Valentigney et Maria m'avait offert une poignée de quoetches (= sorte de pruneau généralement utilisés pour confectionner de la goutte). |
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Grand-père Tavernier was a widower three times. |
According to ~Mamie Paulette his first wife died very young from consumption. |
After ~Grand-mère Treuch death in 1940, he swiftly remarried with "La Maria". I still remember of Maria. She was always entirely dressed in black as was often the customs of old peasant women in those days. I also remember of a very hot afternoon when after walking all the way from the other end of Valentigney Maria offered me a handful of "quoetches" (= some sort of plums usually reserved for making "la goutte", the local schnaps). |
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My grand father was one of those men. He moved out of l'Isle sur le Doubs and rented a room from my future grand-mother ~Marthe Caroline Treuch who as a widow with five kids and needing some income had just decided to put to lease a few rooms in her large house. This is how ~Mamie Paulette parents met. |
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