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The terrible fire of Château d’Eu, near Treport

First published November 2017 We are in the lap of 19th century luxury this week on the blog, which is surprising considering the building on our postcard had burnt down. One afternoon in 1902 a chimney in the fabulously extravagant and importantly historic Château d'Eu caught fire. Unfortunately whoever put it out

On being a Normandy castle, at Arques-la-Bataille

First published September 2014 A chance purchase of an intriguing old postcard in Honfleur took us to this charming ruin, the castle at Arques-la-Bataille. A castle not widely advertised.  There are no tours, or a shop.  No medal coins can be bought at its entrance for 2 euro.  We could have

The disastrous Latham-47 Polar rescue, from Caudebec-en-Caux

First published July 2017 When the radio message from Umberto Nobile and 9 of his crew was finally picked up by a soviet amateur radio operator Nikolai Schmidt on 3 June 1928, they had been stranded on the ice for eight days.  Where the rest of the crew of the airship

The questionable company of kings, for Jean d’Ango at Varengeville

First published June 4, 2016 The sixteenth century was the age of travel and new discoveries and in France, Dieppe was at the forefront of the great expeditions.  During those years one man stood out for his nerve, intelligence and the vast fortune he won, and lost. Jean d'Ango was born in Dieppe

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