Bayeux Cathedral Travellers have been writing about this region since the saints trudged Christianity through it's pagan highways and byways more than a thousand years ago. By the time Frederic George Stephens arrived for a tour in the 1860's, Normandy had been so well described he was hard pressed to be original
Art
Claude Monet by himself, part 2 – “You will not have a sou!”
When Degas visited Normandy – midweek picture post
American soldier in Normandy; drawings from 1944
Normandy in the 19th century – maps by Alexandre Vuillemin
Parisian Alexandre Vuillemin was born in 1812, the year Napoleon invaded Russia. During his life (Alexandre died in 1880) France would be invaded, gain and lose territories and embrace the industrial revolution. As France evolved, it's borders and in turn it's cartographers became increasingly important. Alexandre studied his art under the