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This is a list of notable French restaurants. French cuisine consists of cooking traditions and practices from France , famous for the rich tastes and subtle nuances with long and rich history. France, a country famous for its agriculture and independently minded peasants, was long a creative powerbase for delicious recipes, that are both ...
On July 23, 1632, 300 colonists heading to New France departed from Dieppe. At the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Dieppe lost 3,000 of its Huguenot citizens, who fled abroad. Dieppe was an important target in wartime; the town was largely destroyed by an Anglo-Dutch naval bombardment in 1694. It was rebuilt after 1696 in a typical ...
Saint-Saëns (French: [sɛ̃ sɑ̃s], until about 1940–1950 [sɛ̃ sɑ̃]) [3] is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.A small town of farming and associated light industry situated by the banks of the river Varenne in the Pays de Bray, some 19 miles (31 km) southeast of Dieppe at the junction of the D929, D12, D99 and the D154 roads.
The Château de Dieppe is a castle in the French town of Dieppe in the Seine-Maritime département. [1] The castle was founded in 1188 by King Henry II of England, but was destroyed in 1195 by King Philip II of France. The site was restored in the 14th century. The castle was later in large part reconstructed in 1433 by Charles des Marets.
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The arrondissement of Dieppe is an arrondissement of France in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy région. It has 342 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 232,559 (2021), and its area is 3,120.1 km 2 (1,204.7 sq mi).
From Dieppe to Le Havre the coast presents an uninterrupted cliff, about a hundred metres high and straight as a wall. Here and there that great line of white rocks drops sharply and a little, narrow valley, with steep slopes, shaved turf and maritime rushes, comes down from the cultivated plateau towards a beach of shingle where it ends with a ravine like the bed of a torrent.
The Communauté d'agglomération de la région Dieppoise, also known as Dieppe Maritime is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Dieppe. It is located in the Seine-Maritime department, in the Normandy region, northern France. It was created on 31 December 2002. [1] Its area is 129.0 km 2. Its ...