This week we are celebrating fellow Normandy lover Gordon Home, whose delightful watercolour of Mont Saint-Michel is possibly the loveliest we have ever seen. A sense of beauty A newspaper report of Gordon's wedding in 1926 to Violet Maude Chapman includes these lines from the vicar’s address: “What gift, then, will you, Gordon,
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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
Guest post! Cures for princesses in Bagnoles de l’ Orne
Our guest blogger has travelled across time from 1909 to be with us today. Here she writes about her visit to the glamorous spa town of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, but first a quick introduction: Introducing Mary Alsop King Waddington Mary Alsop King was born on 29 April 1833 into a well-connected New York family; her
Guest post! The death wedding of Honfleur…
Frederic Shoberl Esq., when writing his ‘Excursions in Normandy’ in 1841, relayed the tragic story of the death-wedding of Honfleur. Frederic was aboard 'Le Passager', sailing between Le Havre and Honfleur, when he struck up a conversation with the Helmsman, who told him of a strange tale of heartache, catastrophe and the