16 March 2020

Promenade Littéraire #10: George Limbour, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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#10, Georges Limbour (1900-1970), Bassin de Commerce. In his short story 'Le panorama' Limbour, writer and poet from Le Havre men...

Promenade Littéraire #9: Various Writers, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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#9, various writers, Rue de Paris. This is one of the principal streets in Le Havre, and is mentioned by a number of writers, among them...

Promenade Littéraire #7: Stendhal, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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#7 Stendhal, the former Tour François 1 er . Stendhal mentions this in Mémoires d'un touriste . His character contemplates the town f...
15 March 2020

Promenade Littéraire #6: Louis-Ferdinard Céline, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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#6, Louis-Ferdinard Céline (1894-1961), Boulevard Clemenceau. Céline wrote a part of his novel Mort à crédit  in the former Hôtel Frasca...
12 March 2020

Promenade Littéraire #4: Jean-Paul Sartre, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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#4, Jean-Paul Sartre, Square Saint-Roch, Avenue Foch. Sartre (1905-1980) was teacher of philosophy at the lycée in Le  Havre from 1931...

Promenade Littéraire #3: Benoît Duteurtre, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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#3, Benoît Duteurtre, Avenue Foch. In his novel L'Été 76 (2011) Duteurtre remembers his adolescence in Le Havre, when he discovered ...

Promenade Littéraire #2: Gustave Flaubert, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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#2, Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) , is also on Boulevard Albert 1 er . The quotation is from Bouvard et Péchuchet , the main characters who ...

Promenade Littéraire #1: Armand Salacrou, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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Throughout Le Havre there are twenty benches, part of the Promenade Littéraire (an expression displayed on the top left of each bench). Eac...
11 March 2020

L'Église St Joseph and Auguste Perret, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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L'Église St Joseph was built after the destruction of the third church of the same name after the bombardments of the Second World War ...

Robert (Le Minihy) de La Villehervé, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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Robert (Le Minihy) de La Villehervé (1849-1919) was a journalist, dramatist, poet and writer. He worked as a journaliste for La Province ...
9 March 2020

Le Cimetière de Sainte-Marie, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76): #3: Émile Renouf

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Émile Renouf (1845-94), although born in Paris and spending some years in Honfleur, made Le Havre the centre of his studies as an artist a...

Le Cimetière de Sainte-Marie, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76): #2: Adolphe d'Houdetot

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Adolphe d'Houdetot (1799-1869) is mainly an author of works on hunting. Enough said.

Le Cimetière de Sainte-Marie, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76): #1: Octave Crémazie

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Octave Crémazie (1827-79) is undoubtedly an important poet from the Canadian province of Québec. The bookshop his brother Joseph founded in...

L'Escalier de Montmorency, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

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L'Escalier de Montmorency (which has 266 steps) is probably one of the best known sets of steps linking the upper part of the town to t...

La Colline aux oiseaux, La Folie Couvrechef, Caen, Calvados (14)

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La Colline aux oiseaux is a park  in La Folie Couvrechef in Caen created in the 1990s from what began as a refuse tip in the 1920s, and ha...

Boîte à lire, La Folie Couvrechef, Caen, Calvados (14)

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This Boîte à lire is on the same model as the two in Le Jardin des Plantes, Caen, although it bears the label   Boîte à livres . Boît...
8 March 2020

Musée de la Luna Rossa (revisited), Caen, Calvados (14)

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Last September I took a few shots of the Musée de la Luna Rossa, although because it's only open at limited times (on Sundays from 1 Ap...
7 March 2020

Joep Van Lieshout's La Caravane in Caen, Calvados (14)

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La Caravane , by Dutch sculptor Joep Van Lieshout, caused some negative reactions on its installation in La Place Saint-Sauveur in Caen. It...
6 March 2020

Un singe en hiver, Villerville, Calvados (14)

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As Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre is in many ways synonymous with Jacques Tati's film Jour de Fête , or Bergues is with Dany Boon's Bienve...