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--- About the Verdier family |
| Around 1950 thanks to his friend Monsieur Godard, director at Peugeot, Oncle Marcel got transferred to a position in the Peugeot factory at La Garenne-Colombes, near Paris. He and Tante Alice used to come and visit us every Sunday at seven in the morning when all of us ~Mamie Paulette included were still sleeping. Oncle Marcel, contrary to ~Papi et ~Mamie Paulette was a very pratical man. He is the one who brought us acetylene lamps to lighten our place during the long blackouts, that were occuring daily in the after-war Paris when electricity was kept in priority for industrial use in order for the country to rebuild after the immense destructions of the war. Acetylene lamp bright white light was quite a change from the candle constant flickering that made evening home work so hard. |
| Oncle Marcel one time managed to find oil paint, a rare commodity in those days. However after painting our single room a horrible dark green it was so dark that we nearly missed the original pink walls. Then Mamie in order to lighten up the place the best she could with some gouache and a lot of patience drew the entire room with white daisies. I'll never forget those daisies! |
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| Pierre's occupation was "couvreur / plombier zingueur". The closest I can think of in English would be "roofer / plumber". Pierre died after falling from a roof, I presume around 1914. I was told this accident happened while he was working on the catholic church of Audincourt. But is this true? It seems the church was built a decade later. |
| I remember ~Grand-père Joseph was very proud Audincourt finally had a catholic church but most of this lutherian city and the protestant side of my family did not share his opinion. |
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