Holy-Addresses

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

Located in the agglomeration of the Harbor, is a Seaside resort Holy-Addresses on the littoral of the Manche.

Its inhabitants is called Dionysiens.

Geography

History

The old name of the commune was undoubtedly Saint-Denis-Chief-with-Caux derived from an old Saint-Denis vault.

Holy-addresses being located at the edge of cliffs, the Gallo-Roman dwellings of this village of fishermen are surely now at the bottom of the Manche.

In 1415, Henry V of England unloads with his fleet.

Was capital Belgium Holy-addresses during the First World War. The Belgian government in exile settled there of October 1914 in November 1918. It had at its disposal a using post office of the Belgian postage stamps.

During the Second world war, the Germans build there several works of fortification of the Atlantic Wall to defend the port of Le Havre.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

geological and prehistoric Site of the Cape of Hève
the Headlight of Hève
Manor of Vitanval (XVe century)
Vault Our-Lady-of-Floods (XIXe century)
Sugar loaf, mausoleum raised with the memory of the general count Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes by his widow
Villa of Sarah Bernhardt
Military base
School of the Merchant navy
Real Dufayel

Painting

Claude Monet, Terrasse with Holy-Addresses , 1867, 98.1 cm X 129.9 cm, Metropolitan Museum off Art, New York.
Claude Monet, the beach with Holy-Addresses , 1867.
Claude Monet, the Point of Hève with low tide , 1865,90.2 X 150.5 cm, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, the United States.

Personalities related to the commune

Aphonse Karr, director of the Barber, launch the seaside resort in 1841.

Georges Dufayel, Parisian business man, create in Sainte Address ex nihilo as from 1905, a balneal allotment it Nice Native of Le Havre which is with him only true seaside resort. The architect native of Le Havre Ernest Daniel directs the operations. The avenue of the Regattas on the sea front is designed with the image of the walk of the English in Nice.

Prosper Mérimée locates the action of its dictated at Holy-Addresses.

See too

Common of the Seine-Maritime

External bonds

Site of the city
Holy-Addresses on the site of the national geographical Institute
Holy-Addresses on the site of INSEE
Holy-Addresses on the site of Quid
Localization of Holy-Addresses on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plan on Holy-Addresses on Mapquest
old Postcards

Site of the School of the Merchant navy

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