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Beauty, decay and revolution touch tiny Chambray

Our charming Chambray  postcard shows a rough road, smart gates and a well dressed child being shepherded by an elegant lady with a marvellous hat. This is not the Chambray Château at Gouville, whose history is bottomless, that would be too easy.  This is a tiny hamlet with the same name

Amazing new Cahaignes postcard match! Château interior…

Amazed to find this postcard of the old château library at Cahaignes before it fell into disrepair - see our original post here - and delighted to find we had already taken a photo match (below). Do you have a photo of the château interior before it was abandoned? We would love

Vernon, the town that liberated itself in 1944 Normandy

Vintage postcard showing the mill at Vernon in Normandy France

As we stood on the latest Vernon bridge (there have been many) in Eure, we matched our postcard with no idea of the dramas this idyllic scene had witnessed.  An online search revealed a vast library of WW2 pictures of soldiers.  Then we discovered just a suggestion of a lesser

A Frenchman’s home is his castle, in Cahaignes

An old postcard of a classically beautiful 17th century castle took us to Cahaignes.  We could find nothing online about it, perhaps a private owner had sensibly protected their privacy. Be careful what you wish for Cahaignes is tiny, balanced on the Eure plains between Rouen and Paris with very few roads to

A Frenchman’s home is his castle, in Cahaignes

An old postcard of a classically beautiful 17th century castle took us to Cahaignes. We could find nothing online about it, perhaps a private owner had sensibly protected their privacy. Be careful what you wish for Cahaignes is tiny, balanced on the Eure plains between Rouen and Paris with very few roads to drive

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