This postcard is one of the most fascinating I have of World War One. It’s fascinating on many levels. First, it may seem surprising to see such an image on a postcard, but what I’ve learned with this collection of postcards, it is that a century ago, they […]
Monthly Archives: January 2013
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Disclaimers: This article was written quite a while ago (it was first published in the mid-2000s if I remember clearly), I’ve been married for a few years now (and as such I haven’t been dating for even longer) and I don’t even live in France anymore. In other words, some […]
Not my best sunset picture, far from it, but a quite meaningful one though. It was one of my last road trips (and my last sunset) before leaving France in the Fall of 2011. The picture was taken, somewhere near Rocamadour in the Lot (near the hamlet of […]
The Monuments des Girondins. One of Bordeaux‘s most famous monuments. This is what it looked like about a Century ago (the stamp is not easily legible, but it seems that the date is April 1907). It looks pretty much the same nowadays (even though a lot has happened […]
Beynac Castle, located in the village of Beynac-et-Cazenac, in the Dordogne department, is one of the many amazing medieval castles that can be found in the area. Beynac is very special in many ways. First of all, its location is simply astounding as it is built on […]
