"Evidence Of So-called “aristocratic” Works."
Subject: rare folder, more than a hundred years old, with eleven boarding school works... Marthe Van Hasselt, at the Saint Michel boarding school in the town of Paturage, carried out her end-of-course work with the modesty that was instilled in her... I see, surrounded by austerity, watched over by the Virgin, with the grotto of Lourdes recreated in the garden... I see her, applied to her work in a heavy silence, broken only by the creaking of the gate. With each passerby, Marthe's heart quivered, each creak announced, perhaps, a future distraction, or even another liberation from the heavy monastic shackles of the place. She was not the type of submissive Marthe, she preferred to frolic in the meadows of Pasture... However, she applied herself to the work, point after point. Her needlework was patiently carried out and refined, under the inquisitive eyes of the religious statues which surrounded her and in a fitting silence, only interrupted by the creaking of the gate…. But I've already said that. It's incredible how a collection of young girl's work can speak after being silent for over 150 years. Layettes, shirts, handkerchiefs, dresses, bibs and other bra tops are combined with slit panties, which are rather inappropriate. This entire miniature trousseau, protected by thick pages of blue paper, bears witness to the exemplary journey of a teenage girl at the boarding school. For photos of the place here is the site: 7340.be/couvent.st.michel/