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Normandy. Emily Schafer & Keir Owens. Champ de Bataille. On the very site of the 10 th century battle that gave victory to William Longsword and brought independence to Normandy an extraordinary contemporary park has been created. Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen.
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Normandy Emily Schafer & Keir Owens
Champ de Bataille • On the very site of the 10th century battle that gave victory to William Longsword and brought independence to Normandy an extraordinary contemporary park has been created.
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen • took nearly 400 years to build. • Monet, the artist, was so obsessed with the west façade that he painted it 30 times between 1892 and 1894
D- Day beaches • On June 6, 1944 – now known as D-Day – Operation Overlord, the long-awaited invasion of Northwest Europe, began with Allied landings on the coast of Normandy.
D- Day beaches : Then & Now Now Then
American D-day graveyard 9,387 Americans are buried here
Mont Saint Michel • Rocky tidal island • The population of the island is 41 • More than 3,000,000 people visit it each year • Seat of the Saint-Michel monastery