Duclair

Duclair is a common French, located in the department of the Seine-Maritime and the area High-Normandy.

Its inhabitants is called Duclairois.

Geography

On banks of the the Seine and Austreberthe, with their Confluent. The common one belongs to the Regional natural park of the Loops of the Seine Norman. In Duclair is exploited, by the Department of Seine-Maritime, a maritime vat allowing the crossing of the Seine for the Automobile S and the Weight-heavy S.

Localities and variations

Red Cat, Mounts, Saint-Paul, Claquemeure, Vaurouy.

Communes bordering

The communes bordering are:

History

Common formed with both old Parish S of Duclair ( Duroclarus quoted before 811) and of Vaurouy (" Valley Rouil" in 1469). Existence of a church and a monastery of men in 671; the abbey was destroyed by the Normands at the 9th century. Devastations of the Plague at the 11th century. The baron of Duclair is quoted among the warriors of Hastings (1066). Occupied by the English in 1360. Plague in 1479. Important factory of Beer with 15th and 16th centuries. Leper-house, until the Revolution, with the Davilette mount. Mustad nail factory founded in 1891. Bombardment S during the Second world war aiming at the vat.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Church dedicated to holy Denis to three Nave S

the Castle of the Coppice to the hamlet Saint-Paul

Built on the foundations of a strong House of the 13th century, the castle of the Coppice was built about 1530 by Jehan of Fay of Tailly. The carved frontage, present seigneuriaux blazons, as well as niches and Pilastre S. After an unfinished construction, the central body was increased by the addition of two houses to the 17th century and was finalized by new wings at the 18th century. These are thus 300 years of architecture which are côtoient and are respected by the same symmetry unique in France.

Some of the most beautiful trees of the area radiate in the park of the castle of the Coppice. Thus the direction of “the remarkable tree”, takes here any root there, through the most beautiful gasolines such as the Giant sequoia, the Tulipier of Virginia, the Cèdre of the Atlas,… Strewn with solid masses, platebandes, and dependences such as the Orangery in temple gréco-Roman or the stables built in a vault of the 16th century, all the symbolic system and the spirit of the parks of the 18th century are established there.

In the stables of the castle of the Coppice is installed since June 2004 the Musée August 44 “the hell on the Seine”: the Battle of Normandy, one knows it only too little, finished on banks of the Seine. At the end of August 1944, are tens of thousands of German soldiers who try to flee the projection of the Allies, but the bridges and vats destroyed in edge of the Seine slow down their retirement.

During several days, the planes and the Artillerie ram the troops massed at the edge of the causing river of the very important losses as men and materials.

The Anglo-Canadian armies victoriously fight the last bastions of German defense, leading them thereafter to the so much awaited release of the civil populations. The purpose of this museum is thus to recall these tragic hours of combat then these hours of relief of the release. Thanks to the accounts of the soldiers, civilians, all witnesses of these terrible combat; and through thousands of objects, armaments and behaviors of soldiers, it is possible to better include/understand the history of the last combat on the Seine.

Personalities related to the commune

the painter Paul Mascart lived Duclair.

Events

Gone Tuesday

Twinning

, to see

Gallery

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