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Claude

Gallery

The photographs of Claude Martin and his family gathered by the project: family photos first, then two photographs reproduced on the exhibition panel. Each photo is shown with its caption and credit.

  • Reading under the gallery

    Claude Martin, elderly, wearing a white hat, reads seated under the covered gallery of a house.
    Claude Martin reading under the gallery of his house, date unknown. Family photo.

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  • In a light-coloured shirt

    Claude Martin in a light-coloured shirt, in bright sunlight, old colour photograph.
    Claude Martin, date unknown. Family photo.

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  • On a garden bench

    Claude Martin sitting on a garden bench, arms folded, old black-and-white photograph.
    Claude Martin. Date and place unknown. Family photo.

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  • His family’s coat of arms

    Coat of arms drawn in watercolour: a blue shield with a golden heart, surmounted by a helmet, with the motto “Si fortune me tourmente l’espérance me contente” (If fortune torments me, hope contents me).
    Claude Martin, and his family’s coat of arms. Family collection.

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  • In 2011

    Claude Martin in 2011, wearing a beret and a bow tie.
    Claude Martin in 2011. © S. Franco & M. Seillery.

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  • The 1978 gathering

    Black-and-white photograph taken in 1978 at the gathering of descendants of Clairac emigrants: a man in front of floral wallpaper.
    In 1978, at the gathering of descendants of Clairac emigrants. Société des amis de Clairac.

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  • The gallery of the house, in summer

    Covered gallery of a house in summer: wooden framework and posts, palm trees and red geraniums.
    The gallery of the house, in summer. Place to be confirmed (La Pause or Cambes?). Family photo.

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  • The signet ring with the heart

    Signet ring engraved with a shield bearing a heart, topped by a helm and mantling.
    Signet ring with the arms bearing a heart. Family collection.

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  • Gabriel Martin, his paternal grandfather

    Old black-and-white portrait of Gabriel Martin, Claude Martin’s paternal grandfather: an elderly man with a white moustache, in a suit and bow tie.
    Gabriel Martin, Claude Martin’s paternal grandfather. Date unknown. Family photo.

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Retouching limited to cropping and, for the print on the bench, a slight contrast adjustment; the photographs from the exhibition panel are reproduced without retouching. The originals are kept intact.

To be completed

Photographs wanted

The museum in the Maison de Japhet, Clairac, the 1978 gathering: very few photographs have yet been gathered here, and the house whose gallery appears in two family photos remains to be identified (La Pause or Cambes?). Do you have any, or do you recognise a place, a person? They will be published with your consent and their author’s name.

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Photographs to be supplied