The lady in the glass of l’eglise Saint-Jean, Caen

- December 5, 2015September 1, 2018

A simple postcard match silently reveals the carnage of 1944 without saying a word. See how Rue Saint Jean has changed? Brillaud Laujardière was the chief architect responsible for Caen’s reconstruction after WW2. His forward looking design blew fresh air into once narrow streets, planned for a world with cars

Falling down the rabbit hole with Edith Piaf, in Bernay

- November 14, 2015September 24, 2016

The discovery that Edith Piaf spent part of her childhood in Bernay touched a vintage postcard of a street in an ordinary Normandy town with some much needed last century glamour. What we didn't expect was to fall into a rabbit hole of Alice in Wonderland proportions. Our research left us

A hello and a handshake, for Armistice day

Anniversaires

- November 11, 2015November 11, 2015

War was declared between France and Germany on 3 August 1914. Our vintage postcard is dated 14 October 1914 and was sent by Raymond Langlois of Vernon in the Eure Normandy, to his friend M. Victor of Saint-Cyr-du-Vaudreuil, 30km away. M. Victor had been injured just two months into the 'Great War'. The

Our battiest brocante buy?

Brocantes & flea markets

- October 21, 2015December 28, 2018

Was it the heat? Exhaustion perhaps, after hours wandering around the roads of an old Normandy town given over completely to a brocante market? No idea, but for some reason we came away with a musical decanter shaped like a piano. A rather embarrassing 'bargain' that now lives in a cupboard

Buy me Château de Boutemont!

- October 17, 2015March 4, 2021

When you are granted three wishes, after world peace and the end to all disease, the third wish is of course for a Normandy château. We think we may have found exactly the one to wish for, hidden at the end of an ancient lane edged with trees that form a

Page 4 of 7

« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next »