#provance

Provencial life

~my lavender garden ~

Fripounet and Marisette

I came across some nicely designed national and ethnic costumes from a French children’s magazine. Unfortunately I could not find the paper dolls themselves. I did find a small illustration of a boy figure but it had a water mark. From that I created new boy and girl figures - Fripounet and Marisette.

Fripounet and Marisette were created in 1943 and by René Bonnet (Herboné). As comic strip characters they regularly got involved with mysteries, gangsters or spies (like Herge’s Tintin). Fripounet is described as a blond haired boy and Marisette is his cousin. They appeared in their own magazine for 24 years (1945-1969).

Checkout the other characters and costumes:

https://fashioninpaper.tumblr.com/post/670667753196224512/fripounet-and-marisettes-new-friends-there-were

https://fashioninpaper.tumblr.com/post/670758295021273088/more-fripounet-and-marisette-the-boy-figure-on-the

It was clear to gardener @katecoulson and her husband Nicholas that the exposed hilltop position of their Provençal garden ‘ruled out the sort of polite lavender and clipped olive gardening’ that Kate could see was so dominant in this part of France. She had seen Iris pallida ‘growing like a weed on verges’, but never celebrated as the star of the show. She planted over 2,000 ‘to flood the garden with blue' in the spring.