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Pays de la Loire is located in Western France, just south of Brittany and Normandy. It is named after the river that crosses it and is well-known for its numerous fairy tale châteaux.
The 14th-century church of Notre Dame had a dome (dated 1612), the only example of a Gothic dome in France. The whole building was destroyed in 1944 during the Battle of Normandy . Before the French Revolution , Valognes was the residence of more than a hundred families of distinguished birth and fortune, and was for a long time afterwards the ...
Normandy (French: Normandie; Norman: Normaundie or Nouormandie) [note 2] is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy comprises mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular Normandy (mostly the British Channel Islands).
Garden of the château. The Château du Champ-de-Bataille, is a château located in the Eure department of the French region of Upper Normandy.It's a Baroque château lying between the communes of Neubourg and Sainte-Opportune-du-Bosc, and in the Campagne du Neubourg, between the river Risle to the west and the river Iton to the east.
Claude Monet's property at Giverny (house and gardens), left by his son to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1966, became a Museum opened to public visit in 1980 after completion of large-scale restoration work: the huge Nymphea's studio was restored and the precious collection of Japanese woodblock prints was displayed in several rooms, hung in ...
Château d'Amfreville in Amfreville, private; La Bastille in Beuzeville-la-Bastille, ruined; Hôtel de Beaumont (town residence) in Valognes, private, open to visitors; Château de Bricquebec in Bricquebec, owned by local authority, open to visitors
In 1204, during the reign of John of England, mainland Normandy was taken from the Angevin Empire by France under King Philip II. Insular Normandy (the Channel Islands) remained, however, under English control. In 1259, Henry III of England recognized the legality of French possession of mainland Normandy under the Treaty of Paris.
The Château de Bénouville (French pronunciation: [ʃato də benuvil]) is a building in Bénouville, Normandy, near Caen (northern France). It was designed in 1769 by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux and built in 1770-74 and 1776-80 at the request of Hyppolite-François Sanguin , marquis of Livry (1715–1789) and his marquise Thérèse Bonne ...