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The bank crash and subsequent depression
in the 1930s adversely affected both Tante Valentine in Normandy and the Grosjean household in Paris.
Valentine's wealth was the result of her parents' (both died in the first decade of the century) prosperous grocery business in Isigny-sur-mer, her investments were considerably eroded by the banking collapse.
Eugene Grosjean also lost his fortune and died of a massive heart attack in January 1940. Blanche Victorine received poor advice and sold the quality apartment, furniture and goods for a song. It was war time. She and her traumatized grandchild Blanche Marie moved to sixth floor attic rooms in a building at 12, Boulevard St. Michel, Paris where Blanche Victorine worked as a concierge and Blanche continued school. Marcel Fromond, -Marguerite, Odette and Blanche's father also took a room on the same floor. He worked as a porter at the Sorbonne close by.
In the photo taken in the Montmartre apartment on the ocasion of Blanche's first communion, - about four years before catastrophe hit, you can see the wine glasses and the blue and white Limoges set now used in the Peace household.
CRASH AND CONSEQUENCES
Blanche Victorine and Eugene Grosjean are the last two people on the right.
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