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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Nothing is more sure than that all of us are born to die. We have to face death first quite often, when it strikes our loved ones, and finally when we ourselves are involved. We have to leave everything behind us. We may try not to think of it. Some consider...
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Cette chapelle ancienne est visible de la route, au passage du village de la Rivière en allant vers Urville. Couverte en lose et blottie en bas de la cavée, au pied de ses grands pins , elle garde l’humilité des petits sanctuaires locaux imprégnés de...
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The port city of Le Havre was devastated in 1944 during the Battle of Normandy. 5,000 people were killed and over 12,000 homes destroyed, mainly by air attacks from the Allied forces. After the war, chief architect Auguste Perret rebuilt the city in the...
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On December 14th, 406, St-Nicaise rushed to the doorway of his church to stand in the way of the invading forces and protect the faithful who had sought refuge inside. He was savagely decapitated. Legend has it that he continued to recite a psalm after...
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One of the last existing hermitages in France is L’ermitage Saint-Gerbold near Gratot in Normandy. Between 1403 and 1418, Philip of Argouges, lord of Gratot, built the chapel dedicated to Gerbold, a 7th century saint who was the bishop of Bayeux and a...
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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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The Church of Our Lady of Urville-Nacqueville is the other church I attend on Sundays. Mass is held here every other week. The Latin prayer above the doors calls for Christian unity, “May they all be one, as you, Father, are in me, and I in you.” It was...
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