Nausicaa

"As in the midst of her followers Nausicaa arises, free once again from the yoke of the hymen". Later Daumier's painting The Laundress, by its subject and the palette of colours used, plunges us into Durkheim's modern sociology, and has us rub shoulders with Gervaise. Closer to home, La Mère Denis of the famous washing machine ads and in music "Les bateaux lavoirs" (The laundry boats). But what about those little sailing boats bobbing about on sunlit waters? Dad's the captain. No room for a washing machine. Mum in the galley then...