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  Cherbourg, torpedoes and a Tsar in the playground

  Unsettling times The first few years of the new century were not comfortable for heads of state in Europe. Everyone was looking hard at the newly unified German Empire.  Now the many Germanic principalities have stopped squabbling between themselves they are putting a lot of energy into building rather more military power than seemed absolutely necessary.…

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  Cheval and a show at Haras du Pin

  Not being horsey people, a visit to the French national Stud in the Orne has been lurking quite low on our list, but we were in for a rather dainty and delightful surprise. Our postcard shows the main gate of Le Haras national du Pin, the national stud of France. It was founded by King…

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  Concerning Mont Saint-Michel, in 1905 by Gordon Home - guest blogger!

  This week we are celebrating fellow Normandy lover Gordon Home, whose delightful watercolour of Mont Saint-Michel is possibly the loveliest we have ever seen. A sense of beauty A newspaper report of Gordon's wedding in 1926 to Violet Maude Chapman includes these lines from the vicar’s address: “What gift, then, will you, Gordon, bring to…

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  Concrete serenity in Le Havre

  Best known by travellers from the south of England as a very useful port, Le Havre is no beauty.   Matching some old postcards we discovered this is not the fault of Le Havre. To date, these are our most shockingly altered then-and-now pictures.  Why? Back to 1944. 132 bombings by the Allies The town…

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  Bonne Année 2018!

  Bonne année! We hope you have a great 2018!