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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 10469163, member: 2844&quot;]Very nice drawings. Do you know where in France your father found them?</p><p><br /></p><p>The one titled &quot;En Lorraine&quot; refers to the loss of Lorraine to Prussia during the Franco-Prussian War 1870-71. A loss for France, but not necessarily for the people of Lorraine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Deflin is also a boy&#039;s first name in the Netherlands and Flanders, including French Flanders. So it could be the artist&#039;s first name, or a first name as a surname, the result of a patronym.</p><p>In this case a (French) Flemish origin makes more sense to me than an Irish one, especially because all texts are in French.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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