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All our posts from the Seine-Maritime region.

A wicked cab ride around Rouen, with Madame Bovary

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First published December 2015 This wonderfully tinted 1918 photo is a postcard of Rouen cathedral where Madame Bovary, bored Normandy Housewife of Gustave Flaubert’s famous novel, behaved so atrociously that in 1856 the author was put on trial for obscenity.  What on earth did he write?! This was his debut novel set

The other Dunkirk

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First published 2016/04/06 A few short years before D-Day, another terrible battle took place in Normandy, just 100 miles north east of those famous beaches, around Veules-les-Roses and Saint-Valéry-en-Caux. It’s not talked about much in England and until our visit we had no idea about the events of 11 & 12 June

The disastrous Latham-47 Polar rescue, from Caudebec-en-Caux

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When the radio message from Umberto Nobile and 9 of his crew was finally picked up by a soviet amateur radio operator Nikolai Schmidt on 3 June 1928, they had been stranded on the ice for eight days.  Where the rest of the crew of the airship Italia could be,

Following heroes; we drive the 1908 French Grand Prix, from Dieppe

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First published March 2017 A 1908 postcard of a racing Fiat hurtling through Seine-Inférieure (now Seine Maritime) driven by a stylish pair of moustache and goggle wearing Italians, led us to the discovery that early Grand Prix races took place in Normandy.  Le Mans may have been the first Grand Prix

Peasant life in Normandy, by Gertrude Käsebier in 1894 – guest photo blogger!

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Rabbit and poultry vendors First published 2017 Today our midweek photo post comes from the small farming community of Cressy in Seine Maritime.  Our guest blogger Gertrude Käsebier visited in 1894, while an art student in Paris. Her unique photographs of Normandy country life reveal a world now long lost, a

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