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Published 2016
All the poultry my grandparents reared was sold on the local market in Fleurance. In winter there were the 120 duck livers and the maigrets (duck breasts) to be relied on, but throughout the rest of the year my grandmother would sell chickens. She would make the 18km (11-mile) journey to the market by bus, carrying the live birds in baskets. If she sold enough of them, she could buy things she needed for herself or for the farm, but often we ended up eating the unsold chickens ourselves or