Normandy

Normandy (in French: Normandie, and in Norman: Normaundie) is a geographical region in northern France. Upper Normandy (Haute-Normandie) consists of the French départements of Seine-Maritime and Eure, and Lower Normandy (Basse-Normandie) of the départements of Orne, Calvados, and Manche.

The Duchy of Normandy is a formerly independent duchy situated in northern France occupying the lower Seine area, the Pays de Caux and the region to the west through the Pays d'Auge as far as the Cotentin Peninsula. Normandy was historically a province of France. It comprised present-day Upper and Lower Normandy, as well as small areas now part of the départements of Eure-et-Loir, Mayenne, and Sarthe.

The Channel Islands, although British crown dependencies, are considered culturally and historically a part of Normandy, and are referred to as Les Iles Anglo-Normandes in French.

Normandy is rich by its situation between the sea and the capital, that brings the contacts with other civilizations, of the axes of exchanges, conquests, freedom and culture on banks of the Seine (its abbeys, or Memorial of Caen. Its ground gratify it of forest of Bocages an.pastures where breeding is in full development, and its derives products are the milk, the cream, the cheese thus a meat of quality, its orchards bring its cider its fruits and the sea which borders it with its sea foods enriches it of an exceptional inheritance of kitchen. Its softness of living attracts the artists and in its centre is the impressionism thanks to painters like Monet In Honfleur, Giverny or Le Havre, literature is not remains about it with the writers like Fontenelle Corneille, Maupassant, Flaubert. the architects are not in remainder and of the master piece like the Mont Saint Michel, Rouen the city with the hundred bell-towers, and many castles and manor which strew the campaigns. The simple pleasures or the great events give each other appointment in Deauville or in festivals as "Jazz under the apple trees" With the doors of Paris it is the gate way at the deep France.