It wasn't the sunniest Trouville day when we we to match a postcard of the casino, but it worked out rather well. Dodging into the tourist info office to get out of a downpour we saw something colourful and familiar. An exhibition of the marvellous Savignac's original and printed posters! Sauvignac was incapable
Calvados
All our postcards from the Calvados region.
Moonlight in Houlgate
Rise like a Phoenix, Vire
A little Deauville shop that changed the world
During the Belle Époque even the freshest mademoiselle lamb could look like madam mutton on a sparkling summer day in Deauville. Knee length corsets, layers of petticoats, ruffles and folderols... before the unique fashion influence of Coco Chanel ladies used all manner of lacy excesses to covered up their youth and beauty. Every
A simple heart at Pont-l’Évêque
The serious innocence in a young girl's face on an ancient postcard reminded us of poor disregarded Félicité in Flaubert's short story 'A simple heart' or 'Le coeur simple': "For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Évêque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Félicité. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did