First published November 2017 For a few hundred years the de Tosny family made their Norman mark and then... they were gone. But the de Tosny are remembered to this day in Conches-en-Ouche, the town they built in the Orne. Records have probably been a little bent by time, as the earliest
Legends & heroes
Dr Dufour the babies’ hero, in Fécamp
Disappearing silver at the Devil’s Table, near Passais
Before tidy roads cut their way across this land, the Passais was a wild, remote place. Named from the old French passer, to pass, this was a place of passage between the Duchy of Normandy and France. These dangerous, enchanted borderlands were thick with forest and superstition. Lost in the mists of
A morsel of perfection, for Julia Child in Rouen
The man in the Roche d’Oëtre
First published August 2018 The stone man in the Roche d'Oëtre gazes out across an endless panorama of river, forest and meadows. Four hundred feet below in the gorge twists the silver Rouvre river, flowing on to a densely wooded valley. These granite rocks are part of the oldest mountain in France,