Figure 1.--The postcard shows a family of water salesmen in Cardo, a village in northern Corsica, 4 km from Bastia. On the wagon there are tree branches and leaves in order to conserve fresh the water. The postcard was mailed May 1, 1907. Notice the berets that the boys are wearing.

Corsica is a Mediterranean island department of metropolitan France located north of Sardinia. Corsican history begins in antiquity. The island was known to Herodotus who described Phoenician control (6th century BC). t was in ancient times a Carteginia colony taken invaded by Rome. It was seized by the Vandals, but was laster ruled by a secession of Italian regimes. Corsica was an Italian island until France seized it just before the Revolution (1768). There was a long history of resistance to the French and central government. Corsica is perhaps best known as the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte. France seized the island a decade before the French Revolution (1768). As a result the young Corscican, Napoleon, became a French subject. During World War II, Corsica remained a part of Vichy France after the armistace with the Germans (June 1940). The island is very wild and mountenous. Corsica until the 20th century was quite poor and dominated by banditry and family blood feuds. Local and Italian traditions resisted French culture and a nationalist movement has resisted French authority.

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