Bricqueville-on-sea

Bricqueville-on-Sea is a common French, located in the department of the Manche and the area Basse-Normandie. Its inhabitants is called Bricquais.

Geography

The commune assigns the general shape of a rectangle from approximately 6 to 7 km length of is in west and from 2 to 3 km broad of north in the south. In north, the limit with the communes of Lingreville and Muneville-on-Sea is consisted the brook of Talvas still called ruet of Saucey, in the south by the brook of the Wood Bridge which separates it from the commune of Bréhal.

To the west, a dune coast ending in an extremely flat estran explains ranges of very important tides close relations of those of bay of the Mount-Saint-Michel. To the back of this dune cord, Vanlée, coastal river which takes its source with Bréville, are thrown in a harbor in extreme cases of Lingreville. The harbor of Vanlée constitutes southernmost of the 8 harbors of the west coast of the department of the English Channel.

The crossing of Vanlée was carried out until 1972 by a passage to ford for the cars and a runway wood for the pedestrians. Since this date, a road submarine makes it possible to cross without difficulty Vanlée, except by spring tide. The flood of the road by the sea starting from a coefficient of 100 always constitutes an appreciated spectacle.

The culminating point of the commune is at the Village Mayor with an altitude of approximately 70 meters.

One observes an average deviation of temperature from 2 to 3 degrees between the coast and the oriental party of the commune in extreme cases of the commune of Cérences.

History

The archaeological excavations carried out in 1995 in the north of the Saltworks revealed an occupation of the site as of the Neolithic period.

The origin of the name even of Bricqueville goes back to the beginning of the occupation of current Normandy by the Vikings with the 10th century: Brekki Villa (the field of Brekki). It is allowed to think that this Brekki was a Scandinavian warrior of origin to which grounds had been conceded by Rollon or its successors in reward of rendered services.

Historically, Bricqueville appears for the first time in 1145 in the constitutive instrument of the abbey of Hambye by Guillaume Paynel who is quoted as while being the lord. The stronghold of the large seigniory of Bricqueville concerned the abbey of the Mount-Saint-Michel.

The 8 strongholds which constituted the parish of Bricqueville-near-the-Sea belonged to 2 different lords: Paynel which succeeded Halluin de Piennes then Montgomery for the strongholds of Bricqueville, Saint-Eloy, the Walls and Sey and the lords of Chanteloup for the strongholds of Saucée, of Annoville, the Valley and the Mound.

With these 2 seigniories 2 sections of the parish corresponded: the great portion or major portion known as of Holy Vigor whose priest was introduced by the lord of Bricqueville and the small portion or minor portion known as of Saint Jean whose priest was introduced by the lord of Chanteloup.

An old tradition wants that the two priests laid out at the origin each one of a church: the Saint-Vigor church for one with the Borough and the Midsummer's Day church for the other at the Village Mayor. A granite cross set up in 1953 announces the supposed site of the latter which seems to have disappeared for a long time and this at least since the medium from the 17th century, time when the oldest parochial registers which reached us prove that they were already held jointly by the two priests. The priest of Midsummer's Day which lay at the Borough in a presbytery opposite that of its fellow-member, celebrated his office in the Saint-Vigor church what generated at certain times of the problems of precedence.

The two portions amalgamated at the time of the Revolution. It is also at this period that the old name of Bricqueville-près it Mer disappears with the profit from that from Bricqueville-on-Sea given to the new commune whose territory was increased for the occasion of that of the old parish of Holy-Marguerite-near-the-Sea.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Harbor of Vanlée (natural site classified in 1988). This site was useful into 1975 of decoration for turning of Grand-père Viking of the realizer Claude-Jean Bonnardot with in the main roles Etienne Bierry, Marie Déa, Eric Laborey and Henri Lambert. This telefilm produced by TF1 will be diffused in 6 episodes in January and February 1976.

Personalities related to the commune

Valentine Camax born Valentine Denfer, artist of variety, actress of theater and cinema (Sevres 1883 - Bricqueville-on-Sea 1978), remained famous for the role of English which it held in the film the Holidays of Mr. Hulot of Jacques Tati (1953).
Prosper Liot (1886 - 1910), Leading seaman destroyer, one of the 27 victims of the catastrophe of the submarine cast Pluviôse on May 26th, 1910 in front of Calais which will be entitled to national funeral on June 22nd following in the presence of the president of the Republic Armand Fallières and of the president of the Council Aristide Briand.
Andre Provost-Valéri (Paris 1890 - Granville 1959) painter of landscapes and scenes of kind which worked and resided a time at the Saltworks from where was originating his wife. It in particular painted there many representations of the life of the fields and harvest of the Varech.
Mona Ozouf, writer and historian, born in 1931, lived and is always owner of a house on Le Havre of Vanlée, with the Saltworks.
Jacques Gamblin, actor and writer born in 1957 in Granville, in which the paternal family is originating in Bricqueville.

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