Normandy
Normandy, an administrative region in northern France located on the English Channel, consists of five departments: Calvados, Eure, Manche, Orne and Seine-Maritime. - AsNotedIn
Normandy, an administrative region in northern France located on the English Channel, consists of five departments: Calvados, Eure, Manche, Orne and Seine-Maritime. - AsNotedIn
| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
| Allouville-Bellefosse | Town |
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Seine-Maritime, FR |
| Barfleur | Village |
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| Bay of Mont Saint Michel | Marine Bay | Manche, FR | |
| Bayeux, FR | Town |
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Calvados, FR |
| Beuvron-en-Auge | Village |
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| Cherbourg | City |
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Manche, FR |
| Cricqueville-en-Bessin, FR | Town |
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Calvados, FR |
| D-Day Beaches | Hike | Manche, FR | |
| Deauville, FR | Town |
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Calvados, FR |
| Gatteville-le-Phare | Village |
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Manche, FR |
| Honfleur | Town |
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Calvados, FR |
| Le Havre, FR | City |
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Seine-Maritime, FR |
| Les Andelys, FR | Town |
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Eure, FR |
| Mont-Saint-Michel | Village | Manche, FR | |
| Pays d'Auge, FR | Culinary Region |
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Calvados, FR Eure, FR Orne, FR |
| Rouen, FR | City | Seine-Maritime, FR | |
| Saint-Ceneri-le-Gerei | Village | ||
| Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, FR | Village |
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Calvados, FR |
| Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, FR | Town |
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Manche, FR |
| Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, FR | Town |
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Manche, FR |
| Tourville-sur-Arques, FR | Town |
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Seine-Maritime, FR |
| Veules-les-Roses | Village |
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1553/03/28 | Norman squire and diarist Gilles Picot, Lord de Gouberville, writes in his journal about distilling cider to make apple brandy. | Calvados | ||||
| 1658/03/07 | Madame de La Fayette | Faith | Madame de La Fayette and Francois Motier, comte de La Fayette, have their daughter, Louis de Lafayette, baptized at commendatory abbot of Notre-Dame de Valmont in Valmont, Seine-Maritime, France. | |||
| 1944/06/08 | Eric Aldwinckle | Painter | Shortly after D-Day, Eric Aldwinckle is flown over the D-Day landing beaches, Normandy | Invasion Pattern, Normandy | D Day: Operation Neptune |
| Physiographic Features | Type | AsNotedIn |
|---|---|---|
| Bay of Mont Saint Michel | Marine Bay |
| Particulars for Normandy: | |
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| Locale type | Region of France |
| Vicinage | Type | AsNotedIn |
|---|---|---|
| Calvados, FR | Department of France |
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| Eure, FR | Department of France |
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| Manche, FR | Department of France | |
| Orne, FR | Department of France |
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| Seine-Maritime, FR | Department of France |
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| Theme | AsNotedIn |
|---|---|
| Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay |
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Christmas Eve Festival (Short Story) | Short Story |
|
Guy de Maupassant | |
| A Christmas Tale (Maupassant Short Story) | Short Story |
|
Guy de Maupassant | |
| A Cock Crowed (Short Story) | Short Story | Guy de Maupassant | It was autumn, the russet-colored season of the year, and the leaves were whirling about on the grass like flights of birds. | |
| A Woman's Life (Maupassant book) | Novella | Guy de Maupassant | "A Woman's Life" begins at Jeanne's last day at convent school in 1819. | |
| Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 - May 7, 1945 | Book |
|
Stephen E Ambrose | Setting |
| Daybreak | Film | Marcel Carne | Daybreak is set in Normandy, France | |
| Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies | Verfabula | Ben Macintyre | Setting | |
| Father Matthew (Short Story) | Short Story |
|
Guy de Maupassant | |
| James Pethel (Short Story) | Short Story |
|
Max Beerbohm | |
| La joie de vivre (book) | Novel |
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Emile Zola | Pauline Quenu, a 10 year old orphan, moves to live with relatives in the seaside village of Bonneville, near Arromanches-les-Bains, Normandy. |
| Madame Husson's Rosier (Short Story) | Short Story |
|
Guy de Maupassant | |
| Pierre et Jean | Mezzobula | Guy de Maupassant | Pierre et Jean is set in Le Havre in the 1880s and is notable for its evocation of the Normandy coastline captured by the Impressionists. | |
| Story of Women | Film | Claude Chabrol | "Story of Women" is based on Marie-Louise Giraud | |
| The Baptism (Short Story) | Short Story | Guy de Maupassant | ||
| The Devil (short story) | Short Story | Guy de Maupassant | The July sun streamed in at the window and through the open door and cast its hot flames on to the uneven brown clay floor, which had been stamped down by four generations of clodhoppers. | |
| The Farmer's Wife (short story) | Short Story |
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Guy de Maupassant | I accepted his invitation, and on Saturday we set off on the train going to Normandy. |
| The Lord of Chateau Noir (short story) | Short Story | Arthur Conan Doyle | .... in the ancestral hall of these proud Norman chieftains. | |
| The Man From Mars (short story) | Short Story |
|
Guy de Maupassant | |
| The Murder on the Links (book) | Novel |
|
Agatha Christie | "The Murder on the Link" is set in fictional Merlinville-sur-Mer on the northern coast of France |
| Theodule Sabot's Confession (Short Story) | Short Story |
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Guy de Maupassant |
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