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The General Secretariat for the Sea (French: Secrétariat général de la Mer, abbreviated SGMer [1]) is a French government agency attached to the Prime Minister of France's Office. The mission is to exercise control, evaluation and forecasting within the framework of France's public policies concerning the sea and the littoral.
The Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (French for 'French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea') or Ifremer is an oceanographic institution in Brest, France. A state-run and funded scientific organization, it is France’s national integrated marine science research institute.
La Plaine-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [la plɛn syʁ mɛʁ] ⓘ; Breton: Plaen-Raez) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. Population [ edit ]
Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche was built around 4 core hamlets near the Forest of Marly.The village takes its name from a 9th-century co-bishop, saint Nonne, who re-evangelized the country after the Norman invasions, and from La Bretesche, a wooden stronghold (from breit eiche: big oak tree) consisting of a hamlet at the edge of the forest of Cruye, now the forest of Marly.
Aure sur Mer (French pronunciation: [ɔʁ syʁ mɛʁ], literally Aure on Sea) is a commune in the department of Calvados, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2017 by merger of the former communes of Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes (the seat) and Russy .
Dives-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [div syʁ mɛʁ] ⓘ, literally Dives on Sea; Norman: Dives sus Mé) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy in northwestern France. History [ edit ]
La Mer (also known as The Sea) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière.Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet.
Ver-sur-Mer lighthouse, still active today, was built in 1908 on the heights above the beach. During World War II, Canadian troops swiftly seized the lighthouse; however, it was badly damaged and had to be restored after the end of the war. Ver-sur-Mer's church, which was constructed between the 10th and 12th centuries, is dedicated to Saint ...