The chimney sweep’s Christmas

Early XXth century
Collection : Musée national des arts et traditions populaires (MNATP), Paris, France
Photograph : MNATP

Christmas story on 6 postcards after a poem by Marcel Houjan.
In a cruel version of a modern Christmas story, a grimy young chimney sweep puts his clogs by the fireplace and sleeps, dreaming that the hearth will be filled with toys. When he awakes, however, the clogs are empty.