Showing posts with label Somme (80). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Somme (80). Show all posts
4 March 2020

La Baie de Somme and frogs

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I've visited La Baie de Somme motorway aire on a number of occasions to drink a coffee and relax for half an hour and buy a newspaper,...
31 August 2018

Albertine Sarrazin in Doullens, Somme (80)

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In 1957 Albertine Sarrazin  – who would later briefly become a bestselling author – famously (or should that be infamously?) jumped  f...
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3 September 2017

Saint-Leu, Amiens, Somme (80)

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There are many beautiful houses in Amiens, particularly in and around the Saint-Leu area. Here, they are slender, tall, Dutch-style house...

Marcel Sueur in Amiens, Somme (80)

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  Built in 1901, this house of monumental mason Marcel Sueur is on Rue Saint Maurice, opposite the Cimetière de la Madeleine. Thi...

René Goblet in Amiens, Somme (80)

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René Goblet (1828–1905) was a journalist and politician. In 1869, with Frédéric Petit and Jules Lardière, he founded the radical repub...
1 September 2017

Charles Dallery in Amiens, Somme (80)

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Le square Montplaisir, Amiens.  Charles Dallery (1754–1835), born in Amiens, was essentially an inventor of things mechanical. The son...

Jules Verne in Amiens (80) (continued)

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The Boulevard Jules Verne about a kilometre south of the centre of Amiens was once called the Boulevard Longueville. At number 44 was Ver...
31 August 2017

La Maison de Jules Verne in Amiens (80), Somme (80)

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One of the relatively few Maisons des Illustres , of which Jules Verne's house in rue Charles-Dubois, Amiens, is one. It is a wonderf...