The entrance pavilion of Manoir de La Pommeraye is picturesque even on a cold winter’s day. A central archway edged with pale stones is flanked by sturdy stone tower and topped with a balcony and roofs that would look quite at home in a fairy-tale. But for Normandy, this building is
Eure
All our posts from the Eure region.
From Radeval to Hampshire in England; the story of a Normandy manoir
The slandering of Princesse d’Harcourt
Pretty and fair with skin like cream, Françoise de Brancas Princesse d'Harcourt lived in that strange world Versailles, when the Sun King Louis XIV ruled. He demanded his aristocrats paid court to him in his glorious over stuffed castle and so there they lived, squeezed into every last corner and cupboard.
Louviers’ wolf and the strange werewolves of Normandy
Guest blogger! From Giverville to the Évreux guillotine, in 1837
Match and chateau photos removed at the owners request. Not far from this idyllic Giverville scene, back in the 1830’s lived Pierre-Aime Pinel, with his wife and young family. Pierre-Aime was now 30, his wife Marie-Clotilde Cauvin, 40. Any traces of the alluring older woman he once adored disappeared in the