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The mild mannered murderer, from Alençon

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First published November 2015 Murderer and fraud Edme Samuel Castaing was born in 1789, during the turbulent years of the French Revolution but in Alençon, a prosperous country town that experienced little in the way of revolutionary disorder. Edme’s childhood was relatively undisturbed. His family was comfortably bourgeois and as far as

The lost treasure of the ship Télémaque, at Quillebeuf

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First published 2016/04/02 Taking our car over the Seine on the little free ferry at Quillebeuf has a leisurely charm.  Now we know that beneath us could be the treasure of Kings the time is spent planning ludicrous underwater treasure hunts. We would not be the first. The treasure was hidden on

Falling down in the Orne; a tale of friendship and murder

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First published 2015 Home to Parisian bankers, international golf hotel and Normandy residence of a British criminal who once joined the Queen on the Sunday Times ‘Rich List’.  This is possibly the most unnerving postcard match to make the pages of Normandy Then and Now. When we couldn’t find the location

The terrible haunting of a Normandy château

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Originally published in 2015 Doesn't this Normandy château look charming? Not overly grand and happy in the sunshine?  Just waiting for a little love and a chunk of renovation to become the perfect Normandy home... You are looking at a very misleading picture, for this is the most haunted château in

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