Melle (Deux-sevres) - Paysanne poitevine - Digital Transgender Archive

Melle (Deux-sevres) - Paysanne poitevine

Inscription: "Addressed to Mademoiselle Legras Nadel. Brief message on recto (“Cordial Bonjour — Amitiés — Bonne Santé”) with illegible signature scrawled over head of model." Comic postcard of older man cross-dressed in the traditional garb of a Poitevin peasant woman, putatively from the rural commune of Melle. (The town is now best known as the birthplace of Ségolène Royal, socialist candidate for president in 2007 and now a cabinet minister.) Yellowing to margins and verso (stain from the postcard having been stored in an album with pages with die-cut windows); minor ink offsetting from postmarks.

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Identifier: x059c7575
Collection: Postcards of Female and Male Impersonators and Cross-dressing
Institution: Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
Creator(s): Robuchon, Jules
Date Created: circa 1900
Genre: Ephemera
Places: Nouvelle-Aquitaine > Vienne > Poitiers
Topic(s): Female impersonators
Resource Type: Still Image
Analog Format: 14 x 9.2 (centimeters)
Language: French
Rights: No known copyright
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