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Honfleur (French: ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from Le Havre and very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie .
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It is an old building of the 18th century, and the former home of the Governor of Honfleur. One of the sides of the building is an old gate of the city, the Port de Caen, which was to be part of the city's fortifications. It was between 1684 and 1789 home to the Lieutenant of the king. It became, in 1793, the commerce tribunal.
Mont-Saint-Michel and its surrounding bay were inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1979 for its unique aesthetic and importance as a Catholic site. [8] It is visited by more than three million people each year, and is the most-visited tourist attraction in France outside of Paris. [ 9 ]
The canton of Honfleur-Deauville is an administrative division of the Calvados department, northwestern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015.
Falaises des Vaches Noires on the Côte Fleurie. Location of the Côte Fleurie on the Normandy coast. The Côte Fleurie (French pronunciation: [kot flœ.ʁi]) (or Flowery Coast) stretches for approximately 40 km (25 mi) between Merville-Franceville-Plage, at the mouth of the Orne river, opposite Ouistreham to the west and Honfleur on the Seine estuary in the east.
Founded in 1904, the municipality of Honfleur is similar to Honfleur, city in Calvados, Normandie, where many sailors came from during the 16th and 17th century to North America. The name comes from the archbishop of Quebec , cardinal Louis-Nazaire Bégin , (1840-1925) whose ancestor came from Saint-Léonard-de-Honfleur, archdiocese of Lisieux ...
Frontispiece to 1st edition of Buccaneers of America, 1678. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin) (c. 1645–1707) was a French, Dutch, or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of 17th-century piracy, first published in Dutch as De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, in Amsterdam, by Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678.