Saint-Quentin-on-the-Man is a common French, located in the department of the Manche and the area Basse-Normandie.
Geography
History
Administration
Demography
Places and monuments
Personalities related to the commune
Paul Valéry (1871-1945).
It remained with the castle in the Isle-Manner at the time of the summer 1918, as secretary of Edouard Lebey, administrator of the Agence Havas, which had left the town of Paris then bombarded. It composed there the poems
the Pythea ,
the Oarsman ,
Equinoxe ,
With the Plane tree ,
Air of Sémiramis , all pieces of the collection
Charmes (1922), also illustrated by famous the
marine Cimetière .
(Dr. Hugues Plaideux, Paul Valéry with Saint-Quentin-on-the-Man (be 1918), in Re-examined the English Channel , t.44, fasc.174, April 2002, p.59-78).
See too
- Common of the English Channel
External bonds
- Sporting union of Saint-Quentin-on-the-Man (football club)
- Saint-Quentin-on-the-Man on the site of the national geographical Institute
- Saint-Quentin-on-the-Man on the site of INSEE
- Saint-Quentin-on-the-Man on the site of Quid
- Localization of Saint-Quentin-on-the-Man on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane on Saint-Quentin-on-the-Man on Mapquest