Norman Vexin

The Norman Vexin is a natural Région of France, delimited by the valleys of the Epte, the Andelle and the the Seine.

Geography

Norman Vexin extends on the North-East from the Département from the Eure and south-east from that from the Seine-Maritime. Like its French counterpart, it is presented in the form of a calcareous plate limited to the south by the Méandre S of the Seine, which dug it while forming by places of the abrupt cliff S. It is notched by North-South directed principal valleys, of which the Epte which forms the border with the French Vexin.

Some cities (chief town of canton): Andelys, Gisors, Fleury-sur-Andelle, Écouis, Étrépagny, Neaufles-Saint-Martin, Écos, Gasny.

The principal tourist attractions of Vexin are at the Andelys, with the Castle-Strapping man, and with Lyons-the-Forest, picturesque Norman borough within the forest éponyme, one of most beautiful the hêtraies of France.

History

In 911, the Vexin was divided by the Traité Saint-Clearly-on-Epte between the Duché of Normandy (Norman Vexin) and the royal Domaine (French Vexin).

Inheritance

Gisors : church Saint-Gervais Saint-Protais (11th, 13th, 15th-16th, remarkable blazing decorations and Rebirth, stained glasses 16th); castle (11th, 12th, 15th)
Neaufles-Saint-Martin: (keep)
Andelys: collegial; Castle-Strapping man
Écouis: collegial (exceptional whole of sculptures beginning 14th, carried out on the initiative of Enguerrand de Marigny, founder of collegial)
Giverny: Foundation Claude Monet; museum of American art
Fleury-the-Forest: castle
Fourges: mill
Forest of Lyons
Heudicourt: castle
Lyons-the-Forest: market, town hall
Abbey of Mortemer
Radepont: Abbey of Fountain-Guérard
Castle of Bonnemare
Vandrimare: gardens of the castle
Vascoeuil: museum Michelet

Reference

Lucien Louis Joseph Welsh, natural Areas and names of country , Paris, Armand Colin, 1908

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