At the end of the ninteenth century a rugged aristocrat lived on the island of Tombelaine, in the bay of Mont Saint-Michel. If you have visited the Mont you will have seen Tombelaine, a little rocky heap just four miles away. Jean, Marquis de Tombelaine was the last of a once
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Concerning Mont Saint-Michel, in 1905 by Gordon Home – guest blogger!
This week we are celebrating fellow Normandy lover Gordon Home, whose delightful watercolour of Mont Saint-Michel is possibly the loveliest we have ever seen. A sense of beauty A newspaper report of Gordon's wedding in 1926 to Violet Maude Chapman includes these lines from the vicar’s address: “What gift, then, will you, Gordon,
How to completely botch your trip to Normandy
A headache at Mont Saint-Michel
When the Archangel Michael appeared to Aubert, Bishop of Avranches early in 709 Aubert was surprised but not as delighted as one would expect. Bishop Aubert lived peacefully in a community of hard working Christians, carefully turning a blind eye to the activities of a less Christian variety taking place on