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All our postcards from the Calvados region.

The lady in the glass of l’eglise Saint-Jean, Caen

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A simple postcard match silently reveals the carnage of 1944 without saying a word.  See how Rue Saint Jean has changed?  Brillaud Laujardière was the chief architect responsible for Caen’s reconstruction after WW2.  His forward looking design blew fresh air into once narrow streets, planned for a world with cars

Buy me Château de Boutemont!

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When you are granted three wishes, after world peace and the end to all disease, the third wish is of course for a Normandy château. We think we may have found exactly the one to wish for, hidden at the end of an ancient lane edged with trees that form a

The shadow of young girls in flower – at Cricquebœuf

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Surely this church must have fallen down.  Look at all that Ivy! Was it a ruin? Someone thought the view picturesque enough to make the postcard that we found in a St Ouen flea market, north of Paris.  But no-one ever posted the card, so we don't know when it looked

Harlette, or was that harlot? Of Falaise

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Harlette, daughter of Fulbert the Tanner, changed the course of history for ever when she raised her skirts a little higher than necessary in the courtyard of Gilbert Count of Brionne, one of the most powerful landowners in Normandy. Ambitions of a medieval lady Her charms were noticed and she was summoned

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