There are many legends of Bonvouloir, here is one we think has a ring of truth. First published October 2015 A medieval knight, not old but exhausted
Orne
First published November 2015 Murderer and fraud Edme Samuel Castaing was born in 1789, during the turbulent years of the French Revolution but in Alençon, a
Calvados
First published January 2015 On a cold blustery day in February 1848 the last King of France skulked along the quay in Trouville-sur-Mer, desperate to secure
Manche
First published 2017 One day in 1980 a girl called Michèle on a Normandy school bus heard that a tumble-down château and its farm were for
There is a stained glass window in the Église Notre-Dame at Pontorson that depicts an odd moment in Normandy history that took place just a
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The rampant ambition of Blanchard the balloonist, from Petit Andelys
First published October 2017 Jean Pierre François Blanchard was born in Petit Andelys, the second son of an odd-job man, on July 4, 1753. Perhaps the
