Normandy

by Clare Hargreaves

• ISBN13: 9781860111310
• ISBN10: 1860111319
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Cadogan Guides

Summary

Cadogan's new guide to Normandy gives a fresh insight to this lush region's famous landmarks: Mont-St-Michel, the Bayeux Tapestry, Monet's garden and the historic high-rise port at Honfleur.

Author Biography

Clare Hargreaves has had itchy feet ever since going out to live in Africa at the age of 8 months. Armed with a degree in French and Spanish, she trained as a journalist, including an 18-month posting in Paris with Reuters. When not on the road, Clare combines travel writing with cooking Mediterranean food professionally.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
History	7	(12)
D-Day and the Battle of Normandy	19	(8)
Art and Culture	27	(12)
Art in Normandy	28	(3)
Norman Architecture	31	(4)
Literary Normandy	35	(4)
Food and Drink	39	(12)
Menu Reader	46	(5)
The Guide
Travel	51	(10)
Getting There	52	(1)
By Air	52	(2)
By Sea	54	(1)
By Train	55	(1)
By Bus	56	(1)
By Car	56	(1)
Entry Formalities	56	(1)
Getting Around	56	(1)
By Air	56	(1)
By Train	57	(1)
By Bus	57	(1)
By Car	58	(1)
By Bicycle	59	(1)
On Foot	60
Special Interest Trips	58	(3)
Practical A--Z	61	(14)
Climate and When to Go	62	(1)
Crime and the Police	62	(1)
Disabled Travellers	62	(1)
Eating Out	63	(2)
Electricity	65	(1)
Embassies and Consulates	65	(1)
Health and Insurance	65	(1)
The Festival Calendar	66	(1)
Maps	67	(1)
Money and Banks	68	(1)
National Holidays	69	(1)
Opening Hours	69	(1)
Post, Telephones and the Internet	70	(1)
Time	70	(1)
Tourist Information	70	(1)
Where to Stay	71	(4)
Dieppe, the Alabaster Coast and the Pays de Bray	75	(34)
Dieppe	78	(10)
East of Dieppe: Le Treport and Eu	88	(4)
The Cote d'Albatre and the Pays de Caux	92	(1)
Veules-les-Roses and St-Valery	92	(5)
Fecamp	97	(4)
Etretat	101	(3)
The Pays de Bray	104	(1)
Neufchatel, Mesnieres and the Gardens	105	(2)
Forges-les-Eaux	107	(2)
Le Havre and the Lower Seine Valley	109	(16)
Le Havre	111	(5)
The Seine Valley between Le Havre and Rouen	116	(1)
The Marais Vernier, The Chaumiere and the Foret de Brotonne	117	(41)
Eureux	158
The Three Great Abbeys of the Seine	120	(5)
Rouen to Giverny	125	(36)
Rouen	127	(15)
The Seine Valley Upstream from Rouen	142	(1)
Ry and the Foret de Lyons	142	(3)
Les Andelys to Vernon	145	(5)
Giverny	150	(3)
Gisors	153	(2)
The Eure Valley and Evreux	155	(1)
Acquigny to Ivry	155	(3)
Evreux	158	(3)
The Risle Valley and the Perche	161	(24)
The Lower Risle	163	(6)
Bernay and the Pays d'Ouche	169	(6)
L'Aigle	175	(2)
The Perche	177	(5)
Mortagne and La Trappe	182	(3)
The Norman Riviera	185	(18)
Honfleur	187	(5)
Deauville and Trouville	192	(6)
Houlgate to Cabourg	198	(5)
Lisieux and the Pays d'Auge	203	(20)
Northern Pays d'Auge	205	(4)
Beuvron and Cambremer	209	(4)
Lisieux	213	(2)
Southern Pays d'Auge	215	(4)
Livarot, Vimoutiers and Camembert	219	(4)
The D-Day Coast, Caen and Bayeux	223	(38)
Caen	226	(8)
The D-Day Coast	234	(1)
Sword, Juno and Gold	235	(7)
Omaha, the Marais	242	(5)
Utah and Ste-Mere Eglise	247	(3)
Bayeux	250	(8)
South of Bayeux	258	(3)
The Suisse Normande, the Vire and Southern Normandy	261	(28)
The Suisse Normande	264	(2)
The Vire Valley and the Bocage Virois	266	(3)
Falaise to Argentan	269	(7)
The Heart of the Orne	276	(2)
Alencon	278	(7)
La Ferte-Mace to Domfront	285	(4)
Cherbourg and the Cotentin	289	(41)
Cherbourg	291	(5)
The Tip of the Peninsula	296	(11)
The Western Cotentin	307	(6)
Coutances	313	(2)
Granville	315	(4)
Inland Cotentin	319	(6)
Bay of Mont-St-Michel	325	(2)
Avranches	327	(3)
Mont-St-Michel	330

Excerpts

'Normandy has its art heroes, with Monet leading the charge, and more than its fair share of literary heroes. Corneille, heroic playwright par excellence, came from Rouen. André Gide mounted a brilliant challenge to proverbial Catholic morality and hypocrisy in a series of novels for which he won the Nobel Prize. Maupassant wrote the sharpest, bitterest short stories in the French language, many as redolent of Normandy as the finest Calvados. Then of course there's Flaubert, whose Madame Bovary wastes away so despondently in Normandy, desperate for passion. On the whole Normandy's native literati have hardly given the province a good name, but the region's most stinking heroes are, of course, its cheeses.'

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