Un long chemin de la maison

[Reece]

Yard work indeed, you've got fields and fields to cut!

What a find, these French radios. Could be somebody was overseas at one time and brought them home. The miniature tube looks as if the socket had been changed to allow the modern tube when the original wasn't available, mini tubes being widely available after WWII. You're right on with the French markings: often they're grandes ondes for long wave, petits ondes for what we'd call medium wave or the standard broadcast band, and ondes cortes for short wave. The one radio also has tres cortes waves or very short waves. The abbreviations GO, PO, OC are often seen. The "Blue Ribbon" could very well be the brand: sometimes makers used foreign names to make their products more "exotic." Plus it looks like that tag has been on there forever. That thin veneer: is it veneer or photofinish on a paper backing? In any case wood glue behind it and the spot heavily weighted down with the set on its back should do it.