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Normandy (, pronounced , Norman language|Norman : Nourmaundie , from Old French Normanz , plural of Normand , originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy .
The continental territory covers 30,627& nbsp;km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two Regions of France|regions : Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy . The Channel Islands (referred to as Îles Anglo-Normandes in Metropolitan French|French ) are historically part of Normandy, cover 194& nbsp;km² and comprise two bailiwick s: Guernsey and Jersey , which are British Crown Dependencies .

Upper Normandy ( Haute-Normandie ) consists of the French département in France|departments of Seine-Maritime and Eure , and Lower Normandy ( Basse-Normandie ) of the Département in France|departments of Orne , Calvados , and Manche . The former Provinces of France|province of Normandy comprised present-day Upper and Lower Normandy, as well as small areas now part of the départements of Eure-et-Loir , Mayenne, and Sarthe .
The name of Normandy is derived from the settlement of the territory by Viking s (" Norsemen|Northmen ") from the 9th century, and confirmed by treaty in the 10th century. For a century and a half following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, Normandy and England were linked by Norman and Franks|Frankish rulers.

During the Second World War, the D Day landings on the Normandy beaches under the code name Operation Overlord , started the lengthy Battle of Normandy which resulted in the Liberation of Paris , the restoration of the French Republic, and was a significant turning point in the war.

The population of Normandy is around 3.45& nbsp;million. The continental population of 3.26& nbsp;million accounts for 5.5% of the population of France (in 2005).

Lower Normandy is predominantly agricultural in character, with cattle breeding the most important sector (although in decline from the peak levels of the 1970s and 1980s). The bocage is a patchwork of small fields with high hedges, typical of western areas. Upper Normandy contains a higher concentration of industry. Normandy is a significant cider -producing region, and also produces calvados (spirit)|calvados , a distilled cider or apple brandy . Other activities of economic importance are dairy produce, flax (60% of production in France), horse breeding (including two French national stud farms), fishing, seafood , and tourism. The region contains three French nuclear power station s.

History

Archaeological finds, such as cave paintings , prove that humans were present in the region in prehistoric times .

Belgae and Celts , known as Gauls , invaded Normandy in successive waves from the 4th to the 3rd century BC.

When Julius Caesar invaded Gaul, there were nine different Gauls|Gallic tribes in Normandy.

The Romanisation of Normandy was achieved by the usual methods: Roman roads and a policy of urbanisation. Classicist s have knowledge of many Gallo-Roman villa s in Normandy.

In the late 3rd century, barbarian raids devastated Normandy. Coastal settlements were raided by Saxons|Saxon pirate s. Christianity also began to enter the area during this period. In 406, Germanic tribes began invading from the east, while the Saxons subjugated the Norman coast. The Roman Emperor withdrew from most of Normandy.

As early as 487, the area between the River Somme and the River Loire came under the control of the Franks|Frankish lord Clovis I|Clovis .

The Vikings started to raid the Seine Valley during the middle of 9th century. After attacking and destroying monasteries, including one at Jumieges , they took advantage of the power vacuum created by the disintegration of Charlemagne 's empire to take northern France. The Duchy of Normandy|fiefdom of Normandy was created for the Viking leader Rollo of Normandy|Rollo (also known as Robert of Normandy). Rollo had besieged Paris but in 911 entered vassal age to the king of the Western Francia|West Franks , Charles the Simple , through the Treaty of Saint Clair-sur-Epte . In exchange for his homage and fealty , Rollo legally gained the territory which he and his Viking allies had previously conquered. The name "Normandy" reflects Rollo's Viking (i.e. "Northman") origins.

The descendants of Rollo and his followers adopted the local Gallo-Romance|Gallo-Romantic language and intermarried with the area's original inhabitants. They became the Normans – a Norman language|Norman -speaking mixture of Scandinavia ns, Hiberno-Norse , Orkney|Orcadians , Danelaw|Anglo-Danish , and indigenous Franks and Gauls .

Rollo's descendant William I of England|William, Duke of Normandy , became king of England in 1066 in the Norman Conquest culminating at the Battle of Hastings , while retaining the fiefdom of Normandy for himself and his descendants.

Norman expansion

Besides the Norman conquest of England and the subsequent conquests of Cambro-Norman|Wales and Norman Ireland|Ireland , the Normans expanded into other areas. Norman families, such as that of Tancred of Hauteville , played important parts in the Crusades .

Tancred's sons William Iron Arm , Drogo of Hauteville , Humphrey of Hauteville , Robert Guiscard and Roger I of Sicily|Roger the Great Count conquered the Emirate of Sicily and additional territories in Southern Italy . They also carved out a place for themselves and their descendants in the Crusader States of Asia Minor and the Holy Land .

The 14th century Norman explorer Jean de Béthencourt established a kingdom in the Canary Islands . Béthencourt received the title King of the Canary Islands but recognised as his overlord Henry III of Castile , who had provided aid during the conquest.

13th to 17th centuries

In 1204, during the reign of England's John of England|King John , mainland Normandy was taken from England by France under Philip II of France . Insular Normandy (the Channel Islands ) remained under English control. In 1259, Henry III of England recognised the legality of French possession of mainland Normandy under the Treaty of Paris (1259)|Treaty of Paris . His successors, however, often fought to regain control of mainland French Normandy.

The Charte aux Normands granted by Louis X of France in 1315 (and later re-confirmed in 1339) – like the analogous Magna Carta granted in England in the aftermath of 1204 – guaranteed the liberties and privileges of the province of Normandy.

French Normandy was occupied by English forces during the Hundred Years' War in 1345–1360 and again in 1415–1450. Normandy lost three-quarters of its population during the war.Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1987). " ". University of California Press. p.32. ISBN 0-520-05523-3 Afterward prosperity returned to Normandy until the French Wars of Religion|Wars of Religion . When many Norman towns ( Alençon , Rouen , Caen , Coutances , Bayeux ) joined the Protestant Reformation , battles ensued throughout the province. In the Channel Islands, a period of Calvinism following the Reformation was suppressed when Anglicanism was imposed following the English Civil War .

Samuel de Champlain left the port of Honfleur in 1604 and founded Acadia . Four years later, he founded Quebec City . From then onwards, Normans engaged in a policy of expansion in North America. They continued the exploration of the New World : René Robert Cavelier de La Salle travelled in the area of the Great Lakes , then on the Mississippi River . Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and his brother Lemoyne de Bienville founded Louisiana , Biloxi , Mobile, Alabama|Mobile and New Orleans . Territories located between Quebec and the Mississippi Delta were opened up to establish Canada (New France)|Canada and Louisiana (New France)|Louisiana . Colonists from Normandy were among the most active in New France ,
comprising Acadia , Canada (New France)|Canada , and Louisiana (New France)|Louisiana .
Honfleur and Le Havre were two of the principal Atlantic slave trade|slave trade ports of France.

18th and 19th centuries

Although agriculture remained important, industries such as weaving, metallurgy, sugar refining, ceramics, and shipbuilding were introduced and developed.

In the 1780s, the economic crisis and the crisis of the Ancien Régime struck Normandy as well as other parts of the nation, leading to the French Revolution . Bad harvests, technical progress and the effects of the Eden Agreement signed in 1786 affected employment and the economy of the province. Normans laboured under a heavy fiscal burden.

In 1790 the five departments of Normandy replaced the former province.

11 July 1793, the Norman Charlotte Corday assassinated Jean-Paul Marat|Marat .

The Normans reacted little to the many political upheavals which characterised the 19th century. Overall they warily accepted the changes of régime ( First French Empire , Bourbon Restoration , July Monarchy , French Second Republic , Second French Empire , French Third Republic ).

There was an economic revival (mechanization of textile manufacture, first trains...) after the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815).

And new economic activity stimulated the coasts: seaside tourism. The 19th century marks the birth of the first beach resorts.

Second World War

During the Second World War, following the Armistice with France (Second Compiègne)|armistice of 22 June 1940 , continental Normandy was part of the German occupation of France during World War II|German occupied zone of France . The Channel Islands were Occupation of the Channel Islands|occupied by German forces between 30 June 1940 and 9 May 1945. The town of Dieppe, Seine-Maritime|Dieppe was the site of the unsuccessful Dieppe Raid by Canadian and British armed forces.

Allies of World War II|The Allies coordinated a massive build-up of troops and supplies to support a large-scale invasion of Normandy in the D-Day landings (June 6, 1944) under the code name Operation Overlord . The Germans were dug in to fortified emplacements above the beaches. Caen , Cherbourg , Carentan , Falaise, Calvados|Falaise and other Norman towns endured many casualties in the Invasion of Normandy|Battle of Normandy , which continued until the closing of the so-called Falaise pocket|Falaise gap between Chambois and Montormel, then the liberation of Le Havre .

This led to the restoration of the French Republic, and was a significant turning point in the war. The remainder of Normandy was liberated only on 9 May 1945 at the end of the war, when the Occupation of the Channel Islands effectively ended.

Geography

The historical Duchy of Normandy was a formerly independent duchy occupying the lower Seine area, the Pays de Caux and the region to the west through the Pays d'Auge as far as the Cotentin Peninsula .

The region is bordered along the northern coasts by the English Channel. There are granite cliff s in the west and limestone cliffs in the east. There are also long stretches of beach in the centre of the region. The bocage typical of the western areas caused problems for the invading forces in the Invasion of Normandy|Battle of Normandy . A notable feature of the landscape is created by the meander s of the Seine as it approaches its estuary.

The highest point is the Signal d'Écouves (417m) in the Massif armoricain.

Normandy is sparsely forested: Normandie , Bonneton, Paris 2001 ISBN 2-86253-272-X 12.8% of the territory is wooded, compared to a French average of 23.6%, although the proportion varies between the departments. Eure has most cover (21%) while Manche has least (4%), a characteristic shared with the Islands.

Regions

The Avranchin

The Bessin

The Baupte|Bauptois

The Vire|bocage virois

The Alençon|campagne d'Alençon

The Argentan|campagne d'Argentan

The Caen|campagne de Caen

The Falaise pocket|campagne de Falaise

The campagne du Neubourg

The Évreux|campagne de Saint-André (or d’Évreux)

The Cotentin

The Perche

The Domfront, Orne|Domfront ais or Passais

The Exmes|Hiémois

The Lieuvin

The Mortain ais

The pays d'Auge , central Normandy, is characterized by excellent agricultural land.

The pays de Bray

The pays de Caux

The pays d'Houlme

The pays de Madrie : territoire entre la Seine et L'Eure

The pays d'Ouche

The Roumois et Marais-Vernier

The Suisse normande (Norman Switzerland), in the south, presents hillier terrain.

The Val de Saire

The Vexin normand

Channel Islands

The bailliage of Jersey

The bailliage of Guernsey

The Channel Islands, although British Crown Dependency|Crown Dependencies , are considered culturally and historically a part of Normandy.

Although the British surrendered claims to mainland Normandy, France, and other French possessions in 1801, the monarch of the United Kingdom retains the title Duke of Normandy in respect to the Channel Islands. The Channel Islands (except for Chausey ) remain Crown dependency|Crown dependencies of the The Crown|British Crown in the present era. Thus the Loyal Toast in the Channel Islands is La Reine, notre Duc ("The Queen, our Duke"). The British monarch is understood to not be the Duke with regards to mainland Normandy described herein, by virtue of the Treaty of Paris (1259)|Treaty of Paris of 1259 , the surrender of French possessions in 1801, and the belief that the rights of succession to that title are subject to Salic Law which excludes inheritance through female heirs.

Rivers

Rivers in Normandy include:

the Seine River|Seine and its tributaries:

* the Andelle

* the Epte

* the Eure River|Eure

* the Risle

* the Robec

And many coastal rivers:

the Bresle (river)|Bresle

the Couesnon , which traditionally marks the boundary between the Duchy of Brittany and the Duchy of Normandy

the Dives (river)|Dives

the Orne River|Orne

the Sée

the Sélune

the Touques River|Touques

the Veules, the shortest French river

the River Vire|Vire

Towns

: See: :Category:Towns in Normandy

The principal cities (population at the 1999 census) are Rouen (518,316 inhabitants in the metropolitan area), the capital of Upper Normandy and formerly of the whole province; Caen (420,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area), the capital of Lower Normandy; Le Havre (296,773 inhabitants in the metropolitan area); and Cherbourg (117,855 inhabitants in the metropolitan area).

Population

In January 2006 the population of Normandy (including the part of Perche which lies inside the Orne departments of France|département but excluding the Channel Islands ) was estimated at 3,260,000 with an average population density of 109 inhabitants per km², just under the French national average, but rising to 147 for Upper Normandy .

Economy

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Lower Normandy
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Food and drink

Parts of Normandy consist of rolling countryside typified by pasture for dairy cattle and apple orchards. A wide range of dairy products are produced and exported. Norman cheeses include Camembert (cheese)|Camembert , Livarot cheese|Livarot , Pont-l'Évêque cheese|Pont l'Évêque , Brillat-Savarin cheese|Brillat-Savarin , Neufchâtel (cheese)|Neufchâtel , Petit suisse (cheese)|Petit Suisse and Boursin (cheese)|Boursin . Normandy butter and Normandy cream are lavishly used in gastronomic specialties.
Fish and seafood are of superior quality in Normandy. Turbot and oysters from the Cotentin Peninsula are major delicacies throughout France. Normandy is the chief oyster -cultivating, scallop-exporting, and mussel-raising region in France.

Normandy is a major cider -producing region (very little wine is produced). Perry is also produced, but in less significant quantities. Apple brandy, of which the most famous variety is calvados (spirit)|calvados , is also popular. The mealtime trou normand , or "Norman hole", is a pause between meal courses in which diners partake of a glassful of calvados in order to improve the appetite and make room for the next course, and this is still observed in many homes and restaurants. Pommeau is an apéritif produced by blending unfermented cider and apple brandy. Another aperitif is the Kir (cocktail)|kir normand , a measure of crème de cassis topped up with cider. Bénédictine is produced in Fécamp .

Apples are also widely used in cooking: for example, moules à la normande are mussel s cooked with apples and cream, bourdelots are apples baked in pastry, partridges are flamed with reinette apples, and localities all over the province have their own variation of apple tart. A classic pastry dish from the region is Norman Tart a pastry -based variant of the apple tart.

Other regional specialities include tripe s à la mode de Caen , andouille s and andouillettes , salt meadow ( pré salé ) lamb, seafood (mussels, scallop s, lobsters, mackerel…), and teurgoule (spiced rice pudding).

Normandy dishes include duckling à la rouennaise , sautéed chicken yvetois , and goose en daube . Rabbit is cooked with morel s, or à la havraise (stuffed with truffled pigs' trotters). Other dishes are sheep's trotters à la rouennaise , casseroled veal, larded calf's liver braised with carrots, and veal (or turkey) in cream and mushrooms.

Normandy is also noted for its pastries. It is the birthplace of brioche s (especially those from Évreux and Gisors ) and also turns out douillons (pears baked in pastry), craquelins , roulettes in Rouen, fouaces in Caen, fallues in Lisieux , sablés in Lisieux. Confectionery of the region includes Rouen apple sugar, Isigny caramels, Bayeux mint chews, Falaise berlingots, Le Havre marzipans, Argentan croquettes , and Rouen macaroons .

Normandy is the native land of Taillevent , cook of the kings of France Charles V of France|Charles V and Charles VI of France|Charles VI . He wrote the earliest French cookery book named Le Viandier . Confiture de lait was also made in Normandy around the 14th century.

Culture

Symbols

The traditional provincial flag of Normandy , gules, two leopards passant or , is used in both modern regions. The historic three-leopard version (known in the Norman language as les treis cats , "the three cats") is used by some associations and individuals, especially those who support reunification of the regions and cultural links with the Channel Islands and England. Jersey and Guernsey use three leopards in their national symbols. The three leopards represents the strength and courage Normandy has towards the neighbouring provinces.

The unofficial anthem of the region is the song " Ma Normandie ".

Literature

The dukes of Normandy commissioned and inspired epic literature to record and legitimise their rule. Wace , Orderic Vitalis and Étienne de Rouen were among those who wrote in the service of the dukes. After the division of 1204, French literature provided the model for the development of literature in Normandy. Olivier Basselin wrote of the Vaux de Vire, the origin of literary vaudeville . Among notable Norman writers in French are Jean Marot , Rémy Belleau , Guy de Maupassant , Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly , Gustave Flaubert , Octave Mirbeau and Remy de Gourmont . The Corneille brothers, Pierre Corneille|Pierre and Thomas Corneille|Thomas , born in Rouen, were great figures of French classical literature.

David Ferrand (1591–1660) in his Muse Normande established a landmark of Norman language literature. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the workers and merchants of Rouen established a tradition of polemical and satirical literature in a form of language called the parler purin . At the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century a new movement arose in the Channel Islands, led by writers such as George Métivier , which sparked a literary renaissance on the Norman mainland. In exile in Jersey and then Guernsey, Victor Hugo took an interest in the vernacular literature. Les Travailleurs de la mer is a well-known novel by Hugo set in the Channel Islands. The boom in insular literature in the early 19th century encouraged production especially in La Hague and around Cherbourg, where Alfred Rossel, Louis Beuve and Côtis-Capel became active. The typical medium for literary expression in Norman has traditionally been newspaper columns and almanacs. The novel Zabeth by André Louis which appeared in 1969 was the first novel published in Norman.

Painting

In the 17th century some major French painters were Normans like Nicolas Poussin , born in Les Andelys and Jean Jouvenet .

Romanticism drew painters to the Channel coasts of Normandy. Richard Parkes Bonington and J. M. W. Turner crossed the Channel from Great Britain, attracted by the light and landscapes. Théodore Géricault , a native of Rouen, was a notable figure in the Romantic movement. The competing Realist tendency was represented by Jean-François Millet , a native of La Hague.

Breaking away from the more formalised and classical themes of the early part of the 19th century, Impressionist painters preferred to paint outdoors, in natural light, and to concentrate on landscapes, towns and scenes of daily life. Leader of the movement and father of modern painting, Claude Monet is perhaps one of the best known Impressionists and a major character in Normandy's artistic heritage. His house and gardens at Giverny are one of the region's major tourist sites, much visited for their beauty and their water lilies, as well as for their importance to Monet's artistic inspiration. Normandy was at the heart of his creation, from the paintings of Rouen's cathedral to the famous depictions of the cliffs at Etretat , the beach and port at Fécamp and the sunrise at Le Havre . It was Impression, Sunrise , Monet's painting of Le Havre, that led to the movement being dubbed Impressionism .

Landscapes and scenes of daily life were also immortalised on canvas by artists such as William Turner (artist)|William Turner , the Honfleur born Eugène Boudin , Camille Pissarro , Alfred Sisley , Auguste Renoir , Gustave Caillebotte , Paul Gauguin , Georges Seurat , Pierre Bonnard , George Braque and Pablo Picasso . While Monet's work adorns galleries and collections all over the world, a remarkable quantity of Impressionist works can be found in galleries throughout Normandy, such as the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen|Museum of Fine Arts in Rouen , the Musée Eugène Boudin in Honfleur or the Musée Malraux|André Malraux Museum in Le Havre .

The Société normande de peinture moderne was founded in 1909. Among members were Raoul Dufy , a native of Le Havre, Albert Marquet , Francis Picabia and Maurice Utrillo . Also in this movement were the Duchamp brothers, Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp , also natives of Normandy.

Languages

French is the only official language in continental Normandy. English is also an official language in the Channel Islands. The Norman language, a languages of France|regional language , is spoken by a minority of the population on the continent and the islands, with a concentration in the Cotentin Peninsula in the far West (the Cotentinais dialect), and in the Pays de Caux in the East (the Cauchois dialect). Many place names demonstrate the Old Norse language|Norse influence in this Oïl languages|Oïl language ; for example -bec (stream), -fleur (river), -hou (island), -tot (homestead), -dal or -dalle (valley) and -hogue (hill, mound).

Architecture

Architecturally, Norman cathedrals, abbeys (such as the Abbey of Bec ) and castles characterise the former Duchy in a way that mirrors the similar pattern of Norman architecture in England following the Norman Conquest of 1066.

Domestic architecture in upper Normandy is typified by Half-timbered construction|half-timbered buildings that also recall vernacular English architecture, although the farm enclosures of the more harshly landscaped Pays de Caux are a more idiosyncratic response to socio-economic and climatic imperatives. Much urban architectural heritage was destroyed during the Battle of Normandy in 1944 – post-war urban reconstruction, such as in Le Havre and Saint-Lô, could be said to demonstrate both the virtues and vices of Modernism|modernist and Brutalism|brutalist trends of the 1950s and 1960s. Le Havre, the city rebuilt by Auguste Perret , was added to Unesco’s World Heritage List in 2005.

Vernacular architecture in lower Normandy takes its form from granite , the predominant local building material. The Channel Islands also share this influence – Chausey was for many years a source of quarried granite, including that used for the construction of Mont Saint-Michel .

The south part of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne is filled with bourgeois villas in Belle Époque style with polychrome façades, bow windows and unique roofing. This area, built between 1886 and 1914, has an authentic “Bagnolese” style and is typical of high-society country vacation of the time. The Chapel of Saint Germanus ( Chapelle Saint-Germain ) at Querqueville with its trefoil floorplan incorporates elements of one of the earliest surviving places of Christian worship in the Cotentin – perhaps second only to the Gallo-Roman baptistry at Port-Bail . It is dedicated to Germanus of Normandy .

Religion

Since the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State there is no established church in mainland Normandy. In the Channel Islands, the Church of England is the established church .

Christian missionaries implanted monastic communities in the territory in the 5th and 6th centuries. Some of these missionaries came from across the English Channel|Channel . The influence of Celtic Christianity can still be found in the Cotentin. By the terms of the treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, Rollo, a Viking pagan, accepted Christianity and was baptised. The Duchy of Normandy was therefore formally a Christian state from its foundation. The cathedral s of Normandy have exerted influence down the centuries in matters of both faith and politics. Henry II of England|King Henry II of England, did penance at the cathedral of Avranches Cathedral|Avranches on 21 May 1172 and was absolved from the censures incurred by the assassination of Thomas Becket . Mont Saint-Michel is a historic pilgrimage site.

Normandy does not have one generally-agreed patron saint , although this title has been ascribed to Saint Michael (archangel)|Michael , and to Saint Ouen . Many saints have been revered in Normandy down the centuries, including:

St. Aubert|Aubert who's remembered as the founder of Mont Saint-Michel

Saint Marcouf|Marcouf and Laud of Coutances|Laud who are important saints in Lower Normandy

Helier and Samson of Dol who are evangelizers of the Channel Islands

Thomas Becket , an Anglo-Norman whose parents were from Rouen, who was the object of a considerable cult in mainland Normandy following his martyrdom

Joan of Arc who was martyr ed in Rouen, and who is especially remembered in that city

Thérèse de Lisieux whose birthplace in Alençon and later home in Lisieux are a focus for religious pilgrims.

Germanus of Normandy

People from Normandy

: See :Category:People from Normandy

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