Another postcard from beautiful Locquirec in my collection. It shows the Locquirec’s harbour at low tide.

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General view of Locquirec in France: the village hall, the harbour and the church.

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Locquirec, Breatagne, France – general view of the headland and the coastguard’s path. Locquirec is a small town in Brittany, France. It is located on the north coast from Dinard to Lannion (Bay of Lannion) across the bay from Lannion, manages to have beaches on both sides, without ever quite being thin enough to be a real peninsula.

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Around the main port, smart houses stand in sloping gardens, looking very southern English with their whitewashed stone panels, grey slate roofs and jutting turreted windows. On the last Sunday in July, Locquirec holds a combined pardon de St Jacques and Festival of the Sea.

Online map of Locquirec, Breatagne, France:

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The Eiffel Tower and the French Statue of Liberty on the river Seine in Paris, France. There are two smaller copies of the Statue of Liberty in Paris. The larger of these is 35 feet tall (including the base). You can see this on the boat cruise at the far end of the narrow island called the Allée des Cygnes (“alley of the swans”).

This copy was presented to France from America in 1889, marking 100 years since the French Revolution. On the tablets held by the statue are the words 4 Juillet 1776 et 14 Juillet 1789 (“4 July 1776 and 14 July 1789″), which are the dates of the American Declaration of Independence and of the French Revolution.

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This postcard comes from french series “Chateaux de la Loire” – Chambord (873). Chambord, which measures 156 meters by 117 meters and has 440 rooms, is the largest of all the Loire castles. In terms of sheer scale, it foreshadows Versailles. It appears suddenly at the edge of a path, and the sight of its white massive structure that widens and takes shape little by little, produces a dramatic impression, which is even more striking at sunset.

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The Chateau of Chambord in one of the loveliest Renaissance buildings in the Valley of the Loire. Chambord, chateau, park, and village in the department of Loire-et-Cher in central France. The chateau of Chambord was a retreat for French kings, especially Louis XIV. It was under his auspices that French dramatist Moli?re’s Monsieur de Pourceaugnac and Le bourgeois Gentilhomme were first produced there.

Chambord is probably the most majestic of the Loire Valley castles. We highly recommend the pleasurable experience of wandering the huge halls full of royal history, strolling in the park and spotting a stag or perhaps a wild boar at sunrise or sunset, or enjoying the fabulous equestrian “Son et Lumiere” show held in full Renaissance costume, from May to September.

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