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All our posts from the Seine-Maritime region.

A mother’s love, faith and Joan d’Arc, in Rouen

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Or, 'Isabelle, who made the Maid of Orléans'. To any other mother in the village of Domrémy, Joan would have been considered a difficult child.  Even before the visions started she argued her views loudly and displayed a stubbornness bordering on the unfeminine. But Joan’s mother was Isabelle Romée, wife of farmer

The importance of being Sebastian – in Dieppe

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When we came across this postcard of Dieppe in a bric-a-brac shop on the Sussex coast, we didn’t think a lot of it.  But a bit of research revealed the view to be at the centre of an infamous story... Englishman Sebastian Melmoth rewrote his own history daily.  It made life

An eye for beauty in Le Havre

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Le Havre vintage postcard

‘My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly’ said Raoul Dufy, the fabulous artist from Le Havre. That was not all he erased, as his brother Jean would learn to his horror. Painting happiness Born into a huge Le Havre family, brothers Raoul (b.1877) and Jean Dufy (b.1888) were adept at

Last flight of The White Bird at Étretat

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The first monument to Nungesser and Coli by Louis Rey

The first monument to Nungesser and Coli by Louis Rey First published January 2014 The terrible weather was perfect for our next postcard, the site of a French tragedy. While matching our postcard we looked out over the English Channel above Étretat with admiration and astonishment. Here two brave Frenchmen flew into history in a

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