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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

Harlette, or was that harlot? Of Falaise

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Harlette, daughter of Fulbert the Tanner, changed the course of history for ever when she raised her skirts a little higher than necessary in the courtyard of Gilbert Count of Brionne, one of the most powerful landowners in Normandy. Ambitions of a medieval lady Her charms were noticed and she was summoned

Duvall, the dandy highwayman from Domfront

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“Men he made to stand, and women he made to fall...” (and so he did - more from this old poem about our audacious anti-hero later) Danger and Domfront are old friends.  Perched high above the Varenne valley this old Normandy border town has seen more than its share of battles. To

What would Hamo do for love, in medieval Lisieux?

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It is always an irritation to great men when the minutiae of daily life distracts them from working on their greatness. So it was for Bishop Arnulf of Lisieux.  A rebellious sort of love got in his way. The overbearing Bishop By all accounts a remarkable man, Arnulf parlayed a rich inheritance, fabulous

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

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