Saintes is a small town in Charente-Maritime on the railway linking La Rochelle with Bordeaux. A local postcard photographer has succumbed t...

Twelve years ago I visited Noisiel to see the unique Chocolat Menier factory complex designed by Jules Saulnier on the banks of the River M...

A busy scene in the Breton market town of Morlaix where a narrow-gauge train operated by Chemins de Fer Armoricain, a metre-gauge network of...

This is the sort of postcard I’m always looking out for - a modest building fully stocked with newspapers and magazines in a melancholy squa...

This is from a holiday scrapbook recording a coach trip to France and Switzerland in May 1938. Luggage labels mark the route taken. The ...

For many decades, two of France’s major car manufacturers operated factories in the west of Paris. Citroën built a factory at Javel o...