What, you may ask, is a flobart? Research is a funny thing. You look up a random name of a town along the French coast and stumble upon a rabbit hole of fascinating information!
When looking for a French Channel coastal town for Louise in One Day with You, I found Wissant, a real beauty of a locale. What I normally do when looking for a town is find one on the map, search for it online to see if I can discover anything more than a name, and go from there.
Wissant is a real town, inhabited since at least the early Middle Ages. At one time, it was the port town, before coastal erosion and the rise of Calais. And then I found this line in the (very) short Wiki page:
Wissant has been a fishing village for a millennium: along with Audresselles it is the last fishing village in France to use a traditional method of fishing using a wooden boat called a flobart
A flobart? I've no idea what that is. There's no link within the Wissant or Audresselles Wiki articles. But there is a French language (very) short Wiki page! (You need to translate it.)
Yes, it's just a fishing boat, but it's a cool fishing boat! An historic fishing boat that's still in use today. This type, according to the French Wiki page, is similar to the Venetians mentioned in Julius Ceasar's diary on the Gallic Wars.
The flobart is what Louise's father and brothers use when fishing off the French coast.
Flobart — Wikipédia (wikipedia.org)
Photo from the Flobart Wiki page.
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