Green Notebook from Le Nouveau Monde
One might quite reasonably ask why there is a hamlet (or lieu-dit, as the French say) near the Seine river port of Elbeuf, in Normandy, which bears the name “Le Nouveau Monde”. It is clearly not The New World. Perhaps at one point it was. There are a few traces of an oppidum nearby, built … Continue reading Green Notebook from Le Nouveau Monde →
One might quite reasonably ask why there is a hamlet (or lieu-dit, as the French say) near the Seine river port of Elbeuf, in Normandy, which bears the name “Le Nouveau Monde”. It is clearly not The New World. Perhaps at one point it was. There are a few traces of an oppidum nearby, built … Continue reading Green Notebook from Le Nouveau Monde →
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