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Main building, viewed from the southwest. The Château de Cany is a château located in Cany-Barville, a French municipality in the department of Seine-Maritime.It was built by Pierre Le Marinier towards the end of Louis XIII's reign and served as a family residence.
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Blenheim Palace: “F” marks the corps de logis containing the principal rooms. “A” marks the cour d'honneur , while “B” and “C” are the secondary service wings In architecture , a corps de logis ( French pronunciation: [kɔʁ də lɔʒi] ) is the principal or main block, or central building of a mansion , country or manor house ...
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The Battle of Port-en-Bessin also known as Operation Aubery took place from 7–8 June 1944, at a small fishing harbour west of Arromanches during the Normandy landings of World War II. The village was between Omaha Beach to the west in the U.S. V Corps sector, and Gold Beach to the east in the British XXX Corps sector.
Marin Boucher (1587 or 1589–1671), was a pioneer of early New France and one of the most prolific ancestors of French Canada, being the ancestor of most of the Bouchers of North America, particularly in the Province of Quebec, Northern New Brunswick, Ontario and Western Canada. Estimates of the number of families in Canada and the United ...
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km 2 Calvados ( UK : / ˈ k æ l v ə d ɒ s / , US : /- d oʊ s , ˌ k æ l v ə ˈ d oʊ s , ˌ k ɑː l v ə ˈ -/ , French: [kalvados] ⓘ ) [ needs Norman IPA ] is a department in the Normandy region in northwestern France . [ 3 ]
Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit: naval captain, lieutenant of New France and governor. Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay: officer and merchant who was a prominent figure in the early days of Montreal. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, colonist, namesake of LaSalle, Quebec. [1]