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. It 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 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. 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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