I am in a French class this year, run by the Alliance Francais and we have an excellent teacher, Claire Jacob.
She is doing her utmost to get us to work and one of the first projects she gave us was to prepare a five minute talk about something which interested us.
I picked La Cuisine and ended up talking about our new project in Thezan.
One of my co-pupils, Charlotte, who is Dutch, immediately asked me what were we going to call the place.
My answer was that I really didn’t know.
Up to to that moment I had vaguely thought of calling it La Presbytere which seemed logical.
I then googled in that name and discovered that practically every village in France has a Chambre d’Hote with that name.

The first name I have come up with since that was inspired by the Maire of Thezan who said, when we told him where we had bought, “Ah The house where the sisters lived”

This we knew anyway, and there is plenty of evidence around the house to indicate that the last inhabitants were nuns.
How many of them?
Three seems a likely number.

This led me to the idea of calling the place The Three Sisters,
Les Trois Soeurs.
I have been hunting about the internet (as has daughter Caitriona) to look for images to illustrate the various reasons why it should be so called.

These three were just plucked from the internet.
They would be as I imagine the three nuns living
in the presbytery would have looked.

And how they would have looked on a day at the beach.

Caitriona visited these three in the Blue Mountains
near Sydney in Oz.

This is the Native American Three Sister Crops
which they thought essential for survival;
Squash, Beans and Corn

This is the Irish Connection.
The South East of Ireland is drained by
the Three Sister Rivers;
The Barrow, the Noir and the Suire

Another Irish connection.
The Three Graces in Stephen’s Green

A good image this.
The Three Sisters by Tarbell

My Three Daughters in Brittany about 20 years ago

Three nuns walking on Dun Laoighre Pier
photographed by Caitriona

My three Graces again, this time on an island
in Lough Earne.

Sile, Una and Maire of the Ronaynes
(Pictured in 1980)

And lastly my own three sisters
(actually singing the song”Sisters”)
Fifi, Val and D.

There are more reasons to call it Les Trois Soeurs.
As well as Sile being one of three sisters so was her mother,
Una, Sheelah and Emer O Kennedy.
My nephew David’s restaurant by the Barrow in
Graiguenamanagh was called The Three Sisters
and I am sure some more will hit me.
However it is far from settled.
The Presbytere itself is on Rue Rene Lentheric.
I have just found out the the same Rene was the
first Thezan casualty of WW1.
That leads one to another direction altogether…….

Later
And here are some more sisters

This is the logo from David’s restaurant
showing the boats on one of the Three Sister
Rivers; The Barrow

And this is of our three daughters picking holly for Christmas
up the Minaun about 1985.