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Updated: May 23, 2025

The black and white pavement looked like an ivory chessboard. Two Sisters were sitting peeling vegetables which they threw into a bowl of water. An enormous pot, on the well-polished stove, was humming its inviting monotone. It was this pot which exhaled the delicious smell that had greeted us when we entered the house. The whole picture recalled one of Bail's appetising canvases.

Marcel Dupont - In the Field (1914-1915): The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry