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Le Normandie
Tara Keller
L’histoire
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Pre-Historic times
3rd, 4th centuries, BC and AD
13th century to 17th century
18th and 19th centuries
World War II
Pre-Historic times
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Archaeological finds:
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Cave paintings
Some of earliest Remains
3rd, 4th centuries BC and AD
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Gauls invaded Normandie
Julius Caesar invaded Gaul, 9 different
tribes
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3rd century AD- Vikings invaded Seine
Valley
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“Romanization”
Name from vikings- “northmen”
Taken over by Germany
13th to 17th centuries
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1204-1259- English possession
Hundred-Years War
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Occupied by British forces
Back and forth between England and
France
18th, 19th centuries
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industries introduced and developed:
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Weaving
Metallurgy
sugar refining
Ceramics
shipbuilding
19th century
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First beach resorts open
World War II
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D-Day invasion of Normandie beaches
La culture
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Painting
Architecture
Religion
Culinary
Painting
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Attracted many artists
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Monet
Picasso
Renoir
Many styles
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Romanticism
Impressionism
Monet’s
Rouen
Cathedrals
Architecture
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Rich variety:
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Roman
Germanic
Norman
Religion
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Currently no established church
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Previous influences
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Separated church and state
Anglican Church
Celtic Christianity
Catholicism
No singular patron saint
Saints Revered in Normandy
 Aubert
 Founder of Mont Saint-Michel
 Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc)
 Major hero of Hundred-Years War
 Martyred in Rouen
Les villes/les villages fameux
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Giverny
Rouen
Bayeux
Giverny
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Small town
Claude Monet lived and died here
Rouen
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Major city
Seat of the
Exchequer in
Middle Ages
Joan of Arc was
burnt at stake
here (under
English control)
Rouen Cites to See
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Place du Vieux Marché
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
Rouen Notre Dame Cathedral
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Struck by lightning several times, interrupted
building
Burials:
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Richard the Lionhearted’s heart
Rouen in Culture
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The character Erik born “in a small town
not far from Rouen”
Call of Duty 3 features map set in
Rouen
Bayeux
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Major city
Bayeux Tapestry
City involved in
wars
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Hundred Years’
War
General Charles
de Gaulle
Bayeux Tapestry
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70 metres, 230 ft
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Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux
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embroidery
La Gastonomie
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Cuisine based around three main
products of region
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Seafood
apples
Dairy products
AOC
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Appellation d’origine Contrôlée
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"controlled designation of origin“
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French certification granted to French
geographical indications
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Wines
Cheese
Butters
agricultural products
Cheeses
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Normandie-originated cheeses:
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Camembert
Livarot
Pont l'Évêque
Brillat-Savarin
Neufchâtel
Petit Suisse
Camembert
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soft, creamy,
surface-ripened
cow's milk
cheese
First made in the
late 18th century
in Le Normandie
Livarot
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soft, pungent,
washed rind cheese
made from cow's
milk
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Washed-rindrepeatedly wiped
with, brushed with,
dunked in a liquid
such as saltwater,
brine, or an alcohol
Pont l'Évêque
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Probably oldest
Norman cheese
still in production
uncooked,
unpressed cow'smilk cheese
Washed rind,
Norman origins
Brillat-Savarin
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soft, white-crusted
cow's milk triple cream
Brie
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Creamy and faintly sour
named after 18th
century French gourmet
and political figure Jean
Anthelme BrillatSavarin.
created in the 1930s
Neufchâtel
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soft, slightly
crumbly, mouldripened cheese
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aroma and taste of
mushrooms
One of oldest
cheeses in France
Petit Suisse
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“Little Swiss”
unripened, unsalted, smooth creamy
cheese
Apples
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Used to make
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Ciders and drinks
Deserts and pastries
Calvados
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Popular apple brandy from
Normandie apples
trou normand – inbetween
courses to partake a glass
distilled from specially
grown and selected apples
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over 200 named varieties
Bourdelot
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apples baked in pastry
localities all over have their own
variation
Seafood
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Mussels
Scallops
Lobsters
mackerel
oysters
Les endroits à visiter
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Normandy Beaches
Pont de Normandie
Mont Saint Michel
Normandy Beaches
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Code names from WWII:
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Sword Beach
Juno Beach
Gold Beach
Omaha Beach
Utah Beach
Still called by code names
Sword Beach
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Invaded by British
Sixth British Airborne parachuted
Ouistreham to Luc-sur-Mer
Museums:
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Musée de la Batterie de Merville
Ranville War Cemetery
Map
Juno Beach
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Invaded by Canadians
Includes towns of St. Aubin-sur-Mer,
Bernières-sur-Mer, Courseulles-sur-Mer
Strongest Defense
Museums:
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Site de Courseulles-sur-Mer
Centre Juno Beach
Map
Gold Beach
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Invaded by British
5 miles wide
Museums
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Arromanches (Not really a museum)
Musée Memorial de la Bataille de
Normandie
Map
Omaha Beach
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Invaded by U.S.A.
No cover, strewn with dead
Museums:
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Musée Memorial d’Omaha Beach
Musée D-Day Omaha
Map
Utah Beach
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Invaded by U.S.A.
Accidentally landed south, not as well
defended
Objective- cut peninsula in half, take
Cherbourg
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Memorial de la Liberte Retrouvee
Many monuments
Map
Pont de Normandie
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cable-stayed road bridge spans river Seine
More than 19,000 tons of steel used, 184
cables were used
Longest cable-stayed at time
Les fêtes
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Fetes Jeanne d’Arc
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Medieval Festival
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May 27th and 28th Rouen
June 17th and 18th Les Andelys
Bayeux July 1st and 2nd
Crevecouer-second week of July
mid October to end of November, Autumn
Festival in several cities of region
La Fin!
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Merci beaucoup pour votre attentions!