Word: carreaux
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...worth, had Vincent fill in the unpainted space with a quick sketch of one of the Japanese prints. The painting was sold to a cleric named Salles, then apparently passed through two more owners until, in 1917, it was sold to a café on the Rue des Petits Carreaux. What happened after that, how the painting eventually got to the bistro outside Paris, nobody seemed to know...
...engineers had transformed it from a cluster of thatched huts, huddled beside a dirt road, into a glistening modern village. To feed it, Estime had cut roads through the fertile mountains around Belladère, organized collective farms, and told the peasants that the government would provide five carreaux (16 acres) of land, with tools and seed, for each family who would work the land...
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