Definitively more style and "cachet" than a Starbucks café...

This is a picture taken by my Mum when visiting her family in the Limousin region (where the famous Limousine cows are coming from...)
Here is the translated description sent by her...

It is not strictly speaking a dresser but shelves in a small café in a village on the plateau of Millevaches [litteraly thousand cows]. These rustic cafés, "kept in their juice since 1940", are the kind of cafés shot in the French comedy drama movie called "La Traversée de Paris" depicting black market during the Nazi occupation period (WWII) ... Simple wood tables and chairs, clean oilcloth, but ageless, all run by a couple very much in the same style.... Simple people, woman wearing a blouse, man in a shirt, and I think, suspenders holding his pants but don't look at all dirty like the charaters in the movie. In addition, fresh and cool atmosphere owing nothing to the AC. (It was 32 ​​degrees outside!) [90 F.]. The indefinability of those places, witness of so many happy or tragic moments, so much gossip, and where nothing has changed for ages. With his elbows on the counter in front of a p'tit blanc ou canon [rough equivalent of a pint or a glass of cheap wine or liquor], husbands who accompanied wives and children to the church on Sunday mass, waiting for their release. They had a view on the church, it was convenient, and also on the memorial of the "Great War" [WWI], which, without exception, had at least one name of a family member on the stone...