" There's a fortune of Authentic Vintage French Linen Tea Towels on every clothes line. These are the exact kind of linens that specialty shops in America sell for top dollar to affluent customers who pay dearly to add that touch of French Farmhouse Fabulousness to their million-dollar McMansions.
Flaubert is so wrong.
Even wash day in Normandy is achingly chic. "
― Vivian Swift , Le Road Trip: A Traveler's Journal of Love and France