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Domfront, city of misfortune!

vintage postcard Place Saint Julien Domfront Normandy

First published April 2018 Rummaging in Normandy markets we occasionally come across vintage postcards of Domfront showing a rather grisly image; a man dangling from the gallows. Difficult to match – for the artists’ tenuous knowledge of Domfront as much as the dangling man – these postcards often includes an awful

Watercolours of Normandy by Gordon C. Home – guest artist blogger

Our guest blogger is Gordon Cochrane Home.  An artist, traveller and writer, Gordon visited Normandy at the beginning of the 20th century. This week Gordon is sharing illustrations of chateau Gaillard, Saint-Lô, Ouistreham, Domfront, Vire, Rouen and a Normandy farm. These paintings first appeared in his book 'Normandy Illustrated, the Scenery & Romance

The heroic end of Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, in Domfront

Gabriel de Lorges, comte de Montgomery was a hero, rebel and killer of a king.  Not all of this was by choice. The son of Jacques, Duke of Montgomery, a Scottish nobleman with a sound career supporting the kings of France, Gabriel’s life should have been gilded and assured.  In 1559

Duvall, the dandy highwayman from Domfront

“Men he made to stand, and women he made to fall...” (and so he did - more from this old poem about our audacious anti-hero later) Danger and Domfront are old friends.  Perched high above the Varenne valley this old Normandy border town has seen more than its share of battles. To

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