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Description: | Huntley & Palmers sales to France declined from £268,000 in 1919 to under £14,500 in 1923. In 1924 they decided to set up a French company in order to avoid poor exchange rates and high tariffs. This was never a very successful venture and the business disappeared with the Second World War. These cards are part of an attempt boost French sales.The range of biscuits advertised by these cards was aimed at children ("Rondes Enfantines, Biscuits pour les Enfants") and each picture card illustrates a nursery rhyme. This particular card depicts a shepherdess herding lambs in the rain. 'Il pleut bergere' means 'It's raining, shepherd(ess)'. The song is also known as 'L'orage' - the storm. An attentive man shelters the shepherdess in his mother's house during the storm and then proposes that the next day he will ask her father for her hand in marriage. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | social history trade childhood people animal | Temporal: | start=1900-01-01; end=1940-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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