WOMEN IN MANDALAY
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In Mandalay, I was immediately attracted to life on the street. Everything here is calm, quiet, silent. No untimely horn-honking, but haunting and mysterious sounds coming from temples and pagodas.
To land in Mandalay in the 21st century is to go back in time. Nothing could be more exhilirating for me than to find myself in the atmosphere that my ancestor had known 150 years earlier.
Louis Barthélémy left us small notebooks filled with classic, regular and precise writing: The impressions of a Malouin landing in Mandalay and at the palace of a king who very quickly became his friend.
Her first vision was of the women, dressed in longyi, carrying baskets or packages on their heads. "Proud, beautiful and smiling, they wear heavy yokes and water hoists, walking quickly " he reported.
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