Flutterby™! : Market Day in Provence

A fascinating excerpt from Mich[unknown char]le de La Pradelle's Market Day in Provence makes this look like a fascinating book on marketing, cultural myths, and attempts to maintain a feel of community in an era of mass markets and bulk production:

The piecemeal look of this selling arrangement also strengthens the impression that we are not dealing with a professional tradesman here, but rather with a peasant of the sort Chayanov described, who occasionally comes to sell his surplus on the market.