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From: Richard L Turner <>
Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] Sampler French
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:57:15 -0400


Hello.

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 22:03:57 EDT writes:
> Since you guys with knowledge are tossing the French language around
> - I have
> a sampler with Jm Fahre ++++ Emilir ++++ 1869. The +'s just
> indicate
> spaces. The E word is the largest. Any ideas? Patsy Q

A sampler? Is it indeed embroidered or is it a piece of calligraphy? Like
Fraktur? Is it from Alsace or Belgium, perhaps?

"Jm" is Joachim, I'd bet. "Fahre" isn't any sort of French I know,
but then I have no doctorate in French Studies. But it might well be a
German name... Alsatian, that is, or is the sampler from Belgium? Both
have small German-speaking populations within the larger French-speaking
ones. "Emilir" I would guess to be Emilie. In which case it would be a
record of the wedding [?] of Joachim and Emilie Fahre in 1869.
If there were some way to send me a picture by e-mail, I'd love to
see the piece. There's nothing like a little mystere to set ze leetle
grey cells spinning! Is it a piece you had from your family? I only
recently found out that my g.g.grandfather (who raised my grandfather
Reed) was actually born in Belgium and named Rognion, not Runyon.

Yours,
Richard Turner.
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