De captivants à banals, les articles et photographies de “The Baguette” sont une tentative de publier un journal de ma vie dans la Manche et de proposer un forum de discussion pour tout ce qui touche à la Normandie.
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Behold ! a giant am I ! Aloft here in my Tower, With my granite jaws I devour The maize, and the wheat and the rye, And grind them into flour. ----- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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As the population of Cherbourg grew in the early 19th century, a new church was needed and in October 1850 the building of Our Lady of the Vow began. The construction of the church took 14 years and is designed in a Romanesque Revival style. The facade...
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Please, pull up a chair. Plop down for a while. Poke around. There's good company here.
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Le Viaduc du Mesnil-Villement is a nice spot for a picnic when visiting La Roche d'Oëtre in the Suisse Normande. The viaduct once served as a railway bridge connecting Caen, Condé-sur-Noireau and Flers. The line closed in 1979 and is now a popular rest...
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Upon entering le jardin public of Cherbourg, one is presented with the monument in memory of those Cherbourgeois who died for France. The somber statue designed by sculptor Descatoire looks down at the wall engraved with hundreds of names. It was inaugurated...
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Themis and Minerva were the two Greek goddesses of justice and war. The originals were created in the 18th century by French sculptors Philippe Laurent Roland (1746-1816) and Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) and adorned the façade of the Palais Bourbon....
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Carentan’s town hall was constructed between 1644 and 1652 by the Sisters of the Order of Our Lady who opened a convent there. However, in 1792 the nuns left the convent and the building came to serve as a ba rracks, military quarters, police station,...
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