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All our posts from the Eure region.

Falling down the rabbit hole with Edith Piaf, in Bernay

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The discovery that Edith Piaf spent part of her childhood in Bernay touched a vintage postcard of a street in an ordinary Normandy town with some much needed last century glamour. What we didn't expect was to fall into a rabbit hole of Alice in Wonderland proportions.  Our research left us

How Paul Signac discovered the finer points of art, in Les Andelys

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Sometimes we look at an old postcard and are convinced it will be impossible to match.  Look at this charming view of the Seine sparkling in the sun as a tidy little steamboat chugs cheerfully south towards Paris. What are the chances of finding the right spot on the hill to

A visionary in the trees at Chateau d’Harcourt

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It’s easy to understand ambition that brings riches in this life, or riches in the next. But to start something that will look a bit spindly and scrappy in your lifetime then in about a hundred years be really quite outstanding, now that takes a special sort of ambition.  It’s rare

In days of old when Knights were bold, in Brionne, Normandy

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First publishes February 8, 2015 Our vintage postcard led us to a hill high above Brionne in Eure, Normandy.  Here we discovered the crumbling remains of a vast 11th century fortification that revealed Brionne's place in the heart of Normandy history, and introduced us to a long lost medieval hero. A fearsome

The strange saints of Notre Dame in Louviers, Normandy

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Even from this distance we could see all sorts of interesting stone twiddly bits adorning the blessed walls of L'église Notre-Dame, the church of Our Lady.  We were in Louviers, just south of Rouen, partly for lunch and partly to match a postcard of the main street with a church

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