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OLD PICTURES - VINTAGE CARDS

Surroundings

 

In search of lost time : Best viewed full-screen, click pictures then enlarge.

  

To fly over Vimoutiers and surroundings in the XVIIIth century, from the map of Cassini :

click the aeroplane

 

 

Guerquesalles

Le château de Vimer

 

On June the 14th, 1944

 

Manoir de La Cocardière

 

 

 

Route de La Hunière*, la Hunière ...

The sighing Bridge

 

         

Laurel Cottage with the

House of the Clock built in 1728 and modified

beginning of the XXth century, when the stable barn was converted into a workshop for the artists.

Among them ...

* in Vimoutiers, continuation of la rue Arce

 

 

Camille Corot,1865 :

Way at the edge of the forest at Vimoutiers

 

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...the Briant family welcomed Camille Corot, forerunner of  the impressionist movement.

 

Impressionism

 

 

On Roger de Mont Gommeri's lands

Saint Germain de Montgommery - Sainte Foy de Montgommery

 

Manoir des Champeaux

aka Ferme des Tourelles

Remaining of the former Dukes's castle

More about Mont Gommeri

Witness appeal missing pilot

 

 

Roiville

The cottage of the norman poet Gustave Le Vavasseur

 

    

 

 

About the poet

 

 

Other Manors

Les Clos-Tords

Prieuré  de Crouttes

de Bellou

la Fauvetière

du Mesnil en Roiville

 

Prieuré : Benedictines Monks of Jumièges Abbey's hostelry

 

 

 

Les Moutiers-Hubert

 

Saint Aubin

de Bonneval

 

Church Moutiers Hubert

was destroyed by bombs in 1944

 

 

The AUTOBUS !

 Argentan - Trun - Vimoutiers

 

 

Seize the opportunity of the halt to visit

Trun in former times

 

  

 

 

 

 Le Sap

 

 

erstwhile washing

 

Le Grand Jardin

 

Camembert

Marie(-Christine) Fontaine, born in Crouttes (Crouptes)

married Jacques Harel in Camembert on May 10th, 1785 :

 

the village with the Feast Committee of Camembert

Le village de Camembert

the house of camembert

La maison du camembert

the village by camembert-france

Camembert, a village, a cheese

  Joseph Knirim (US) to M.Harel and camembert cheese

More links :

Raw milk, camembert cheese and Marie Harel

 

 

Le château d'Osmond

 

 

nowadays

Tibetan Center of the Congregation

Dachang Kagyu Vajradhara Ling

 

 

 

Pontchardon

 

 

 

Ticheville

 

 

 Ticheville patrimoine

 

 

Chambois

 

 

 

Gacé

 

 

Livarot

 

 

About Les Champeaux, les Ligneries, le Mesnil-Imbert, le Renouard, visit the page Charlotte Corday

 

 

Tortisambert : Did you know ?

 

"I was born on April 28, 1882, in Tortisambert, a lovely hamlet of Calvados,

of which you can see the Church steeple on the left side

when you go in direction of Troarn on leaving Livarot ..."

from the "Diary of a cheat" by Sacha Guitry

 

Tortisambert in Pays d'Auge

 

 

Le Renouard

 

The association Mémoire et Patrimoine du Renouard aims to collect the History of the village ... from the folks's memories, any documents or archives ... Its website was created in order that you may visit Le Renouard as well as to tighten bonds between those who live or lived there.

 

Mémoire et Patrimoine du Renouard

 

 

Your researches about History of the villages and related topics :

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including Research - Genealogy

... and also the forum

 

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