Today Pegman travels to Roscanvel, Brittany. Your mission is to wander around using Google Street View until you find something that inspires you to write up to 150 words. When you’re satisfied, post a link to the InLinz site and share it with your fellow writers. Remember that reading and commenting on other posts is part of the experience.
Thanks to Josh and Karen for hosting What Pegman Saw. 😀
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Word Count: 150
LA CHAUMIÈRE DE DIVINE
The September breeze ruffled Paul’s hair as he paced the perimeter of the stone cottage, contemplating his losses.
“It is poetry, this place. Nothing like cruel Paris,” he’d told his companion and their two sons. “The clairvoyant was right. We will flourish here. Here we laugh, we cry; here we live, we die like legends.”
An infant’s squall rousted him from his musings. He hurried toward the sound. Entering the bedroom, he found his children’s mother cradling a newborn. She flashed a weary, yet jubilant smile. “Paul, say hello to your daughter.”
“La perfection!” Taking the little one in his arms, he marveled at her delicate features. “Created by the angels, sent by God. I shall call her Divine. What do you think?”
Almost as if she understood, Divine grasped his finger. He thrilled to her touch. “I am your father, Saint-Pol-Roux le magnifique. Ma princesse. Welcome to Divine’s Cottage.”
Poet Saint-Pol-Roux
Divine’s Cottage
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple 
That’s wonderful. Such a glorious picture, with the birth and the rather dramatic poet father – and baby named Divine! Full of colour and life, just as that cottage must have been. Fabulous
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Dear Lynn,
When I found him in an article about the township, I knew I had to write about him. Alas, there was not much to go on, even the info in Wikipedia proved sparse. I imagine, as a poet, he was somewhat dramatic. Thank you so much for your lovely comment.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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My pleasure. A lovely snippet
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I loved this, the jubilant mother, the perfect infant. A lovely picture of pure joy!
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Dear Penny,
I just can’t resist writing about birth. 😉 Thank you for your lovely comment.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Fabulous photo and story. Glad you’re playing this week!
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Dear Josh,
I seem to have more time to write these days. 😉 Thank you.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Your story inspired me to look up more about this poet and literary figure. As you say in your earlier comment, there isn’t much online to go by, but it seems you’ve guessed well at his dramatic reaction to his situation. I’m just happy I got away with being named “Joy” and not “Divine” – the latter would be far too much pressure to live up to!
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Dear Joy,
I love it when I find a piece of history attached to a location. It’s frustrating when there doesn’t seem to be much written about a person. One of the characters in my third novel “As One Must, One Can” is such a person…a doctor who was on the staff of the first African American hospital in Kansas City. There’s much written about his father (also in my books) the second black officer on the KC police force. I only hope my account is true to him, as I do with the French poet. 😉
Joy is a lovely name. I have two friends by the name and it suits both of them.
Thank you for your lovely comments.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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That’s probably true of the vast majority of people, that there isn’t much biographical information about them available later on, to be sure you’re presenting them accurately in historical fiction. (Although perhaps less so, with people posting their entire lives on Facebook, etc.) But now that I think about it, even famous historical people must have some huge percentage of what they did and thought and experienced that we have no records of. And yet those details must be presented somehow if they are featured in a novel or movie. I wonder how such people would evaluate our portrayals of them now? Interesting to ponder.
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I’ve wondered the same thing, Joy. I hope these men would be pleased with my portrayals. Sadly, black history is lacking in the details.
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Very good point — a small group of privileged men got the majority of the historical records, and the rest of the world was underrepresented and too often forgotten.
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Dear Rochelle,
What a wonderful story! Glad you found that angle as you have such a divine way of bringing history to life!
shalom and lotsa poetic love,
Dale
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Dear Dale,
You know me all too well. If there’s a historical nugget, I’ll sniff it out. 😉 Thank you for such a wonderful comment. 😀
Shalom and lotsa well-versed hugs,
Rochelle
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