'I miss knowing when I will see our children and friends in the UK.' Photo: by Linda Holman on Unsplash.
‘Family separations were long and hard but accepted as part of normal life.’
French connection: Marie Lebacq on some historical European ties
by Marie Lebacq
23rd October 2020
Over 200 years ago, a young girl called Christine Majolier met British Quakers here at Congénies. She wrote about how her siblings would play at holding ‘Meetings’; her sister Lydie would ‘try to preach like Elizabeth Coggeshall dressed up in a mob cap’.
