Colombey Les Deux Eglises

 

Recently, I found some old postcards from the trips to France that my brother and I used to take back in the eighties. We had to good fortune to have family in France, and almost every other summer, some family was willing to take us in. It happened first in the summer of 1982, then again in the summer of 1985, 1987, and finally, 1989.

So while our family was hardly rich, or even qualified as well-to-do (probably lower middle class would be more accurate), we nevertheless had one aspect that seems, in retrospect, to have given us certain advantages that others in our comfortable, bordering on wealthy, town did not have: we were fairly well-traveled, especially for our age. And many, if not most, people seemed to get the mistaken idea that we had much more than we did, particularly because France and being French often gives Americans the mistaken impression of having a lot of money.

That is nothing that I am going to get into greater detail now.

However, I just thought that I would post a few pictures of some of the old postcards that I found from these times, and these trips. And today, I begin with two postcards (only two) of a town that we passed through fairly often, and really visited, to my memory, only once: Colombey Les Deux Eglises.

It has one thing that makes it stand out: it is the town that Charles De Gaulle came from. And thus, it has a huge Croix de Lorraine (Cross of Lorraine) to commemorate him by.

Below are pictures of the postcards of this town, and of the huge cross which was easily the most distinct landmark that I particularly remembered on the four or so hour drives from the town of Taverny to their tiny residence in the otherwise charming little village of Leffond, which is actually part of a larger town of Champlitte, which I will soon enough share pictures of, as well.

Here are the pictures of Colombey Les Deux Eglises:

Colombey Les Deux Eglises

Columbey