• SAINT-SAUVEUR-LE-VICOMTE (03/31/2014)
  
  Just south of Cherbourg is the town of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte which is famous for its château which dates from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. What remains are fortifications flanked by towers and a massive keep. The ruins have been classified as...
• MAYENNE (03/26/2014)
  
  Over-Blog is one of the worst blogging platforms ever. The ability to insert photos is constantly changing. Even now, it is impossible to insert photos from my Flickr account the way that I want them. You will have to appreciate them like they are...sadly,...
• NOVIODUNUM, VILLE ROMAINE DE JUBLAINS (03/23/2014)
  
  There was originally an important Gaulish sanctuary on the archaeological site of Jublains. Following the conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar, the Romans divided the country into districts and built towns which correspond to the present administrative centers....
• SAINTE-SUZANNE, MAYENNE (03/23/2014)
  
  This peaceful village occupies a picturesque setting on the summit of a rocky promontory commanding the north bank of the Erve. In the 11th century, the viscounts of Beaumont built on the site one of the most important Maine strong points. Ste-Suzanne,...
• LE DOLMEN DES ERVES (03/23/2014)
  
• NOTRE-DAME DE L’ÉPINE, ÉVRON (03/23/2014)
  
  The menhir just outside of the Basilique Notre-Dame de l’Épine (Our Lady of the Thorn) shows how Évron was once a site of great spiritual pilgrimage even before the introduction of Christianity. The first mention of a church in Évron occurs in the testament...
• ÉGLISE SAINT-SIXTE -- LA CHAPELLE-RAINSOUIN (03/15/2014)
  
  After leaving Laval, we headed to our final destination for the day, Évron but stopped just long enough in La Chapelle- Rainsouin to see the interior of l'église Saint-Sixte which is famous for its two funeral stones as well as a unique Entombment scene....
• LAVAL, MAYENNE (03/15/2014)
  
  After visiting Chailland, it was off to the capital city of the Mayenne, Laval. Parked the car next to the cathedral and walked down the hill to the tourist office in order to get a map of the town. Unfortunately, the map they provided was one of the...
• CHAILLAND, MAYENNE (03/14/2014)
  
  So yesterday I told you all about Pontmain and the apparition of the Virgin Mary which has brought it so much fame. What I failed to tell you was that was my first stop on my trip to the Mayenne last weekend. I had such a wonderful time—especially since...
• PONTMAIN, MAYENNE (03/13/2014)
  
  On January 17, 1871, the Virgin Mary appeared to four children in the village of Pontmain: Eugène and Joseph Barbedette, Jeanne-Marie Lebossé and Françoise Richer. The children said that the Lady was clothed in a blue dress, spangled with golden stars....