Sweet Kisses

Un doux baiser, franc et discret
Jamais ne se donne à regret

French postcard: A sweet kiss, free and discreet, will never give you regret.

Love and Separation in French Wartime Postcards

This French postcard combines a romantic couple with a verse celebrating a sincere and discreet kiss. Such cards offered soldiers and civilians an idealised language of affection during a period marked by distance, uncertainty and prolonged separation.

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