Saint-Victor-sur-Loire

I received my first postcard from France from Méline in May.  She writes, "Greetings from France, where spring looks like summer!"  She had just harvested her first strawberries the afternoon that she wrote me this postcard (May 5, 2011).

This postcard shows an eleventh-century church in Saint-Victor-sur-Loire, which is geographically separate from, yet is considered to be a neighborhood in the city of Saint-Étienne.  The medieval village is home to about 850 inhabitants so not much about it has been written in English.

This unnamed church has Romanesque-styled columns dating back to 1070.  Inside this ancient chapel are the statues of St. Victor, St. Antony, St. Roch, St. Eustachius, the Virgin in bronzed wood, as well as an altar of Louis XIII.

Saint-Victor-sur-Loire, la place de l'église

It came with this stamp:

In 2010, France issued a this stamp in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the independence of  Latin America and the Caribbean

Read more about Saint-Victor-sur-Loire in French here:
http://tresordesregions.mgm.fr/Mdir.php?p=cant.php&cl=SaintEtienne&region=82
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Victor-sur-Loire