Saint-Valery-en-Caux is a seaside town and commune of the Seine Maritime département, Haute-Normandie région, Normandy, France, located 30 km west of Dieppe and 30 km east of Fécamp. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. Seine-Maritime is a French department in Normandy. Before 1955 it was known as Seine-Inférieure. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Haute-Normandie ( Upper Normandy) is one of the 26 regions of France. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Normandy (Normandie Norman: Normaundie) is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Dieppe is a town and commune in the Seine-Maritime department and Haute-Normandie region of France. Fécamp is a commune of the Seine-Maritime département, Upper Normandy in France.
It is said to have been founded by Benedictine monks in 990 CE. Benedictine refers to the Spirituality and Consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in It is a small fishing port in a sheltered basin surrounded by high chalk cliffs, its main source of income is now tourism. It has a population of around 6,000.
It is best known as the place where the British 51st (Highland) Infantry Division and French troops surrendered to Erwin Rommel on June 12 1940. Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel ( ( 15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) (also known as the " Desert Fox " Wüstenfuchs Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The town was largely destroyed in the fighting in 1940. During the action French Cavalry on horseback faced German tanks.
Town Twinning
The town is twinned with:
External links
- Website of Saint-Valéry-en-Caux in French and English under development
- The City of Inverness Town Twinning - St Valéry en Caux
- Website of Aeroclub Cauchois (LFOS) (French) discover Normandy from air. Inverness (Inbhir Nis iɲɪɾʲˈniʃ is a city in northern Scotland. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. For the town in Unterallgäu see Sontheim Bavaria. Sontheim (full name Sontheim an der Brenz) is a municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe.
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