Part One of Two Parts “Postcards from France” was inspired by the current exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston entitled “The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection,” featuring over 700 miniature pieces of art from his very sizable collection of postcards. Today’s post focuses on postcards of Provence and the Côte d’Azur and what I learned from the curator of this MFA exhibit about the history of postcards. Next week’s post will feature postcards from the other regions of France and I will present what I learned about Mr. Lauder’s collection of postcards. I am grateful to two friends from France who made their postcard collections available to The Modern Trobadors. When I am in Lourmarin, I can be found many a morning at Café Gaby. Look for my table at Gaby’s along the rue de Henri Savournin. It’s the one with a grand crème, the International Herald Tribune, and a stack of postcards. I am the one busily scribbling notes to friends and family on my carefully selected postcards. (My husband is the one bemoaning the cost of postage.) I love postcards…both to send them and receive them. (Thanks Gerry and [...]