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The agonies of Monet’s 26th year

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First published January 2015 Our Sainte-Adresse lighthouse postcard match took us to such a remarkable view point we thought Monet, once an occasional resident here, must have been inspired by the sun setting on this vast seascape. So we looked into his life at Sainte-Adresse only to find a shocking story. Behind 'The

The French Mr Selfridge

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When Georges Dufayel decided to spend some of his vast wealth creating a holiday resort by the sea, he looked to the home of his parents, Normandy. He knew of a bay, sheltered from the wind and overlooked by the craggy hillside ‘La Pointe de la Hève’, just north of bustling

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

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