The legend of St Helier’s fountain, at Bréville-sur-mer

- December 3, 2016May 11, 2018

Jersey may think like to think Saint Helier is all their own, but he was buried in Normandy and quite interesting, so we are pleased to include some of his life and times on our blog. It all happened a very, very, long time ago, but the story of Saint Helier

The heroic end of Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, in Domfront

- November 19, 2016November 14, 2017

Gabriel de Lorges, comte de Montgomery was a hero, rebel and killer of a king. Not all of this was by choice. The son of Jacques, Duke of Montgomery, a Scottish nobleman with a sound career supporting the kings of France, Gabriel’s life should have been gilded and assured. In 1559

The other legends of Saint-Ceneri-le-Gérei

- August 27, 2016September 24, 2016

If our postcard match doesn’t look exactly right, it’s because just a few steps to our left and we would have been in Sarthe, part of Pays de la Loire. Lovely but NOT Normandy! The church is in Normandy, thank you very much. To find the Sarthe/Orne border when you next visit

A Conqueror’s change of heart

- March 26, 2016September 24, 2016

In the charming town of Falaise we saw this dramatic monument to that battle hungry medieval warrior, William the Conqueror. Rightly represented as a triumphant king, William's statue is surrounded by earlier Dukes of Normandy: Robert the Magnificent, Richard the Good (very good at propaganda, also known as the Irascible), Richard

A Goddess and the black Madonna of Douvres-la-Délivrande

- February 20, 2016September 24, 2016

As the mother goddess observed her people she felt the strength of their love, knowing it would not be enough to save her from the darkness at the bottom of a Roman well. And so it was. There she lay broken by the evangelical priest Regnobert, her fate celebrated ever

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