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A Family Memorie about Regis the Colporteur Short blurb about the story As a young man, Régis Chabal left his family’s ancestral farm after saving enough money working as a shirt peddler to start a new life in the town of Avignon, almost 100 miles away. There he found great success establishing a shirt store called a Chemiserie. Eventually, he passed the business on to his family for generations. His grandson was Marcel Chabal (my grandfather). In fact my mother Simone Chabal was born on the floor the family store. When visiting as a child, I was enchanted by the store's high walls and rows of neatly folded shirts. My mother told me Régis’ story with a mixture of pride and wonder, and I too became curious. Régis’ life spanned 1828–1914, an era that marked the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and ended with the birth of the Modern Age. Indeed, his entire generation witnessed epic changes. This is his story. 1828 INTRODUCTION Our family’s ancestral farm, F...