Droguerie/Quincaillerie

In the nearby village of Beaumont-du-Perigord there is the most fascinating ‘quincaillerie’. It invites the visitor to step back in time when such hardware shops were a part of country life and where people could find all the necessary paraphernalia from brass tacks to rat traps,cleaning products to fishing gear, paints to firewood baskets.

Recently I read about the ‘droguerie’ which is similar in that it was full of bits and pieces but they were geared towards cleaning, either the house,farm or person and used to have some medicines. Now with the requirement to sell medications through pharmacies they no longer exist and have mutated into general hardware stores.