I am a "Guide Nationale" since 1990, which means I am an official, licensed guide, allowed to guide on sites but also in French Historical Monuments, and National Museums.

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I grew up in a village that was part of SWORD BEACH, sector of QUEEN WHITE, where on D DAY landed the 1st Battalion of the South Lancashire Rgt, among which there was Stanley Quirk, a Scotsman my parents welcomed for free at home as he looked for a place to stay when he came back as a veteran for the 40th Anniversary of D DAY. I was 14, and went with him to the British cemetery in my village  where his ex-comrades are buried, and he showed me their pictures.

At first, I worked as a guide for big groups of French retired people who were coming to see where their liberators had landed and pay homage to those of them buried in our ground, and I learned so  much with them who had lived during World War II and during the German occupation.

Then I worked for the CAEN MEMORIAL for 7 years, a big museum about World War II and the Battle of Normandy, as a Guide for regular visitors and VIPs. in the Museum and on the D DAY sites.

Later, I was a Guide-driver for NORMANDY SIGHTSEEING TOURS, the biggest small size-tours company in the area, but also trained the inexperienced guides joining the team. I transmitted them my passion, they kept studying and became great guides. Many of them are free-lance guides now and I am proud of them.

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Now it's my time to become free-lance, but still with the same passion, and great concern of quality.

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