Here are flowers, here is Rochefort en Terre

January 9, 1981 An evocation by Marcel BLISTENE of Rochefort-en-Terre, the first flowered village in France, which owes its resurrection and magnificence to the generosity of an American painter, Alfred PARTRIDGE KLOTZ, who made this corner of Brittany his favorite place and gave it a festive air and the grace of an operetta brought to life on old stones. Alfred PARTRIDGE KLOTZ, who fell in love with the small town in 1903, bought the ruins of the castle destroyed during the Revolution and completely restored it. His daughter-in-law recounts... She also explains how in 1907, at her instigation, the windows of the village houses were decorated with geraniums for the first flowered villages competition. Mr. DIQUERO, who has a collection of postcards of ROCHEFORT and its region, tells the story of Maïa the witch, a mysterious character who once frightened the peasants. INA archive footage National Audiovisual Institute http://www.ina.fr Subscribe http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c...