A kerchiefed woman in a plaid blouse and long dark skirt stands at an ornate multi-spout iron fountain in the cobblestoned square of Lacaune-les-Bains, a small spa town perched 850 metres high in the Tarn département of southern France — a hand-colored real-photo card that captures a vanishing rural world with quiet intimacy. The octagonal cast-iron fountain, its jets catching the winter light, was a communal gathering point for generations of village women who came to draw water; advertising signs for Kub bouillon and Picon bitters on the stone walls behind her root the scene firmly in mid-century provincial France. Published by APA (Société des Cartes Postales APA-Poux-Albi) under the Romacolor "Couleurs Naturelles" process, the hand-tinting gives the scene a warm, painterly quality that straight color photography could not achieve. A detail/crop view (_02) provides a close-up of the woman's traditional dress and stance.