Ronald & Tony

The windmill of Pigalle

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Large clear present-day Blute-fin view from outside private property, raised wooden body, gallery and timber posts. Karen holds photo up, Harly checks silhouette. Odette and Ronald across sidewalk with gap. : Harly: The gallery. The posts. The roof. Karen: Now they match.

Odette and Ronald beside public wall, historian folder open. Tony on Ronald right shoulder. Girls absent. : Odette: The Moulin de la Galette became famous for dancing. Ronald: A working neighbourhood became a place for leisure, too.

Imagined nineteenth-century outdoor dance garden, ordinary adults in modest period clothes, lanterns, tables, band. Original composition, never reproduce Renoir painting. : Caption: A glimpse of the old dance gardens, imagined. Tony: From grinding flour to dancing feet!

Back present sidewalk. Harly zooms on tiny basket-carrying woman at right of drawing using phone. Karen next to her, nobody else close. : Harly: Wait. Someone’s standing beside the mill. Karen: Was she part of Luc’s family?

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Large clear present-day Blute-fin view from outside private property, raised wooden body, gallery and timber posts. Karen holds photo up, Harly checks silhouette. Odette and Ronald across sidewalk with gap.
Harly: The gallery. The posts. The roof. Karen: Now they match.

Odette and Ronald beside public wall, historian folder open. Tony on Ronald right shoulder. Girls absent.
Odette: The Moulin de la Galette became famous for dancing. Ronald: A working neighbourhood became a place for leisure, too.

Imagined nineteenth-century outdoor dance garden, ordinary adults in modest period clothes, lanterns, tables, band. Original composition, never reproduce Renoir painting.
Caption: A glimpse of the old dance gardens, imagined. Tony: From grinding flour to dancing feet!

Back present sidewalk. Harly zooms on tiny basket-carrying woman at right of drawing using phone. Karen next to her, nobody else close.
Harly: Wait. Someone’s standing beside the mill. Karen: Was she part of Luc’s family?