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All our posts from the Seine-Maritime region.

The golden man of Lillebonne

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Our postcard prepared us for some impressive ancient ruins, but not for finding a huge amphitheatre in the middle of a small Normandy town.  Why in Lillebonne? And who was the golden man? A quick bit of scene setting Back when the Romans thought they ruled ­the land now known as Normandy,

Concrete serenity in Le Havre

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Best known by travellers from the south of England as a very useful port, Le Havre is no beauty.   Matching some old postcards we discovered this is not the fault of Le Havre. To date, these are our most shockingly altered then-and-now pictures.  Why? Back to 1944. 132 bombings by the

The peculiar chapel of Allouville-Bellefosse

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We drove expectantly through the plain fields of the Pays de Caux to Allouville-Bellefose to match this most peculiar postcard. A chapel in a tree, and what a tree!  Still alive after centuries leafy branches capped with little man made roofs twist and turn. Inside support has been supplied by someone of the Heath

The strange WW1 tale of Belgium in Normandy, at Sainte-Adresse

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We knew of Sainte-Adresse from some delightful summery paintings by Claude Monet but didn’t know where it was, or that it used to run Belgium, until we picked up an old postcard with a lovely view of the Seine estuary. We also didn’t know there was never a saint called Sainte-Adresse… Belgium

A principled man from Le Tréport

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World famous composer and conductor, POW survivor, flouter of Nazi dictates, Légion d'honneur and style icon, Paul Paray was a man from le Tréport. The defiant POW There is an odd gap in Paul’s early career. But to briefly start from the beginning, Paul was born May 24, 1886 in Le Tréport

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