Brilliant but bonkers; the pottery at Bavent

- January 9, 2023April 10, 2023

First published January 2016 Many travelers know exactly where they are going, what they want to see and why. But if you, like us, aren’t so sure, matching some vintage postcards is a fantastic way to discover new places, even in an area you think you know quite well. We have zoomed

An incognito King, in Deauville

- September 4, 2021October 16, 2021

This post was first published in December 2016 Sometime in the spring of 1922, the Marquis de Viana rented a beautiful manor house overlooking the sea at Le Grand Bec, not far from Deauville. Over the next few weeks the Manoir de Clairefontaine was buffed up, ready for a very special

The disappearing war criminal of Château de Grangues

Calvados
WW2

- June 30, 2020December 2, 2025

First published June 2018 Our postcard is impossible to match as this is a private residence, however the story of the Château de Grangues does not need a matching photograph, just to be remembered. The Château is set discretely back from the road in parkland, just a few kilometres from the seaside

Raoul Dufy, Honfleur and the girl in the red dress

Art
Calvados

- April 2, 2020April 27, 2026

Three years after this card was posted in 1926, artist Raoul Dufy saw a little girl running along the Honfleur jetty in a red dress. As her dress flipped and swirled with each speedy step, Raoul had a moment of artistic clarity. He would later recall how this patch of colour had 'stayed longer on

Apple Harvest in Normandy – from the Penny Magazine of 1840

- September 26, 2019October 1, 2019

This article first appeared on 5 September 1840 in the Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Has Normandy changed in the last 180 years? Well not so much ... An unsuitable climate for wine The profusion of apple and pear trees but more particularly of the former

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