First published April 2016 The façade of a ship owner’s manor house overlooking the turquoise water of quai de la Batellerie in Saint-Valery-en-Caux, reveal nearly everything of importance about its fine owner. Above the door are a few words, fashioned long ago, that roughly say: 'L’an mil cinq cent quarante c'est maison fut
Seine-Maritime
All our posts from the Seine-Maritime region.
A modest WW2 Resistance hero and the V-1 flying bomb, at Val Ygot
First published here 2018 In the summer of 1943, a middle aged Frenchman in blue overalls pushed a wheelbarrow past German sentries into a construction site at Bonnetot, between Dieppe and Rouen in Normandy. The man, Michel Hollard, did not look extraordinary but he was. Audacious and brave, Michel’s actions that day
The terrible fire of Château d’Eu, near Treport
First published November 2017 We are in the lap of 19th century luxury this week on the blog, which is surprising considering the building on our postcard had burnt down. One afternoon in 1902 a chimney in the fabulously extravagant and importantly historic Château d'Eu caught fire. Unfortunately whoever put it out
