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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A good friend of mine sent me a video about plans to recreate the old castle fortifications of Cherbourg using computer technology. In the future, visitors can hold up a computer tablet device and see where towers, walls, gates and old buildings once...
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Last night I went to le r estaurant Pékin in Cherbourg which is owned by two friends of mine from my French class at Maison Pour Tous. They were so kind to allow us to gather at their place of business to ring in the New Year. We started our New Year's...
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Pour commémorer la catastrophe du Titanic survenue le 14 avril 1912, d’importantes manifestations sont prévues dans les années à venir notamment chez nos amis britanniques. Cherbourg, seule escale continentale du voyage du Titanic, accompagnera cette...
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This is what the Transatlantic Station in Cherbourg used to look like before World War II. Those damn Nazis destroyed much of what once used to be beautiful. Fortunately, the building has been restored although I guess none of us will ever get to see...
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Place du Théâtre Des choux De l’ail Des panais Des courges Des salades Des fromages
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Emmanuel Liais (1826 – 1900), a former mayor of Cherbourg, an astronomer, and a passionate botanist took advantage of his travels to return home with several South American and Asian plants. Between 1880 and 1893 he created a magnificent botanical garden,...
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