in 1944. Born to an Alsatian family in Paris, Giraud graduated from the Saint-Cyr military academy and served in French North Africa. He was wounded and...

because of the almost complete destruction of Saint-Lô during the Battle of Normandy following D-Day. When Saint-Lô was rebuilt, it once again became the capital...

fund the movement in the province. During May Saint-Lô, Bayeux, Falaise, Vire, Lisieux, Carentan, Pont de l'Arche and Le Havre fell to Protestant rebel...

- Valognes - Carentan - Saint-Lo. Its port is connected to the sea by a canal. The name of the commune refers to the marshes of Carentan. The municipality...

Cherbourg-Octeville) and the largest city of the department, ahead of the Saint-Lô prefecture, and the second-largest city in the region, after Caen. Its...

surrendered, de Gaulle, President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, moved back into the War Ministry on the Rue Saint-Dominique and...

of captain by the close of the war. Completing his military studies at Saint-Cyr in October 1919, Larminat volunteered to serve in the colonial infantry...

The Bayeux speeches are two different speeches delivered by General Charles de Gaulle of France in the context of liberation after the Normandy landings...

Robert (2001). Le siège de Granville [The siege of Granville] (in French). Saint-Lô: Société d'archéologie et d'histoire de la Manche. Noël Le Coutour...

which were not made fully operational until September. The Battle of Saint-Lô is one of the three conflicts in the Battle of the Hedgerows (fr), which...

"Affiches de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, YY000756". Le site du Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication. Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication...

Normandy in 1944 – post-war urban reconstruction, such as in Le Havre and Saint-Lô, could be said to demonstrate both the virtues and vices of modernist and...

inhabitants (2019). Saint-Marie-du-Mont is located in the southeast of the Cotentin Peninsula, just north of the town of Carentan, and west of the fr:Baie...

marshes of Carentan. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Sainteny (the seat) and Saint-Georges-de-Bohon...

substantial restoration project. The cathedral houses the shrine of Saint-Léon de Carentan, 9th-century Bishop of Bayonne, and is a recognized UNESCO World...

François Lebrun, Gilbert Le Guen, L'Ille-et-Vilaine, des origines à nos jours , 1984, p.368 "Libération de Châteaubriant" (in French). La Mée. https://www...

Chartres, Eure-et-Loir Chippenham, Wiltshire and La Flèche, Sarthe Chipping Ongar, Essex and Cerizay, Deux-Sèvres Christchurch, Dorset and Saint-Lô, Manche Cockermouth...

was later called the Falaise Pocket, the Argentan-Falaise Pocket or Couloir de la Mort (Corridor of Death) as the local French named it. During World War...

The nearest stations are Gare de Lison and Gare de Le Molay-Littry. The village is located 13.4 km northeast of Saint-Lô, as the crow files, overlooking...

Saint-Lô, Manche prefecture. The seat for this constituency has always been filled by centre-right or right-wing politicians. For its first election in...