The slave streets of Le Havre

- June 9, 2018January 9, 2019

Memorial to those lost in WW1 from Le Havre and is by Pierre-Marie Poisson in 1922

There are two very different memorials in Le Havre; one for lives lost, the other for lives taken, for France. Our postcard shows a glorious memorial to the 6000 people of Le Havre who died in WW1. They gave their lives for their country in conditions so awful we cannot imagine them.

How Lancelot became ‘Of the Lake’, at Le Châtellier

History
Orne

- May 19, 2018January 9, 2019

Postcard of the megalith bridge over the river Varenne in the Orne Normandy

If you walk north along the greenway just north of Le Châtellier, then take the right hand path between markers 11 and 12, you will find an unusual bridge crossing the Varenne river. This bridge marks a place vital to the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the

The surprising battle of St-Cyr-de-Bailleul, in 1906

- April 28, 2018April 25, 2018

In the south of Normandy, deep in the countryside near the border with Mayenne, is a tiny village called St-Cyr-de-Bailleul. Here a few hundred souls live around a small unremarkable church. History has little to report here as perhaps it takes a lot to rouse these hard-working country folk from

The barefoot Marquis de Tombelaine

- March 17, 2018January 9, 2019

Vintage postcard of the island of Tombelaine in the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel

At the end of the ninteenth century a rugged aristocrat lived on the island of Tombelaine, in the bay of Mont Saint-Michel. If you have visited the Mont you will have seen Tombelaine, a little rocky heap just four miles away. Jean, Marquis de Tombelaine was the last of a once

The comeuppance of Henri, vicomte de Belzunce, in 1789 Caen

- December 30, 2017December 29, 2017

Port de Secours at the old chateau in Caen

Setting the scene It is August, 1789. The French Revolution, which started idealistically enough with the formation of a National Assembly on 17 June to balance royal power, has become rather less polite as the Bastille is stormed on 14 July. This political drama follows months of hardship for the people of

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