A profound ethnological study

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BERNOT (Lucien) and René BLANCARD. Nouville, un village francais. Paris, Institut d'ethnologie, 1953, large octavo, VII-447 pp., 17 figures, 4 plates out of text, paperback, in good condition. First edition (Travaux et mémoires de l'Institut d'ethnologie, LVII). A masterful ethnological study dedicated to a village in Seine Maritime bordering Picardie. Published by the École pratique des Hautes Études. "Nouville is the name of a municipality with 613 inhabitants in 1946, located on the Bresle, at the border of Normandy and Picardie. Glassworks have been established there since the end of the 18th century, giving the village a dual population of agricultural and working class. A beautiful copy.