If you walk along Rue Martainville past Saint-Maclou church in Rouen, keep a sharp eye out for the quietly marked entrance to L' aître Saint-Maclou. Under a covered entrance way, along an ancient alley and up a small ramp, turn right and you are in a very strange courtyard. Lining up our
Seine-Maritime
All our posts from the Seine-Maritime region.
A photographic record of the storm of iron & fire; Le Havre 1944
We found this emotional set of images, showing Le Havre before and after the bombing of 1944, tucked in amongst some ordinary vintage postcards at the Foire des Andaines. The photos have been carefully composed by someone who thought we should not forget, and they tell the story of Operation Astonia in ways
The most terrible lesson of all – Dieppe Raid 1942
In 1942, as Hitler’s troops marched relentlessly towards Stalingrad, Churchill was under pressure to supply a serious distraction in Europe. Plans for a large scale invasion of Northern Europe were nowhere near ready but an idea to draw German troops from the Eastern Front and gain priceless information about enemy resources
Recreating Jeanne d’Arc, in Rouen
The curious incident of the poet in the sea, at Étretat
A vintage postcard led us to a story about English eccentrics and French unflappability, at Étretat. A less daffodilly direction Algernon Charles Swinburne was a poet and quite possibly for his time, a genius. To the delight of biographers he was also a little unusual. Algernon was born in 1837 to a time that