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See also: Dieppe

Dieppe is a common French, located in the department of the Seine-Maritime and the area High-Normandy. Its inhabitants is called the Dieppois.

Etymology

Dieppe is with the mouth of the Arques in the Manche.

Its name would find its origin around the year thousand when the Viking S called the river throwing in the Manche on this site Deep, because its important depth.

This river separated a long time the city in two districts, is and western. The district east would have taken the name of the Pollet by the linguistic contraction “Port of the East”. One also found in documents name “Port of the West”. However Pollet could have well a Celtic origin, even pre Celtic. " Pol" /" Poul" wanting to say " as well; trou" that " profond" the Djep Viking who gave Dieppe would be the translation of the Gallic " Pol" who gave Pollet.

Pollet is from now on a peninsula since the digging, in 1848, of an additional basin to the port.

History

  • 907 : The Viking S mention a deep Fleuve which are thrown in the Mer and name it " Djepp" (deep).
  • 1030 : Dieppe is mentioned like small port fishing. After 1066, the Norman ones develop Dieppe and the port S on each side of the Manche. Within the feudal system, the commune belongs to the Comté of Talou.
  • 1195 : Dieppe is shaven by the troops of the King de France, Philippe-Auguste.
  • 1197 : Richard Lion-hearted, Duke of Normandy, grants to the archbishop's palace Rouen the grounds of Dieppe.
  • 1204 : Dieppe and the Normandy is annexed in France.
  • 1420 : Dieppe is again occupied by the English.
  • 1435 : The city is taken again by the French ordered by the captain Charles Desmarets who equips the town of Fortification S and a castle.
  • In 1488, the Dieppois captain Jean Cousin, on the way towards the Africa of the West and the islands of the the Azores, accosts with the Brésil in the Cape San Rogue.
  • the Dieppois are illustrated at the end of the Moyen-âge by their maritime companies: They visit the coasts of Africa, where they build Small-Dieppe with the mouth of the Gambia, recognize the the Canaries, create several establishments in North America, in particular to the Canada.
  • 16th century: The maritime power of the city reaches its apogee under François I {{er}} grace in particular to the ship-owner Jean Ango. Its ships reach Sumatra, the Brésil and the Canada. Dieppe is then the seat of a school of Cartographie and Hydrographie under the direction of Pierre Desceliers.
  • 1562 : A quarter of the inhabitants of the city adopted the reform and are Huguenot S. Répression of the huguenots by Sieur de Sygogne, governor of the city.
  • 1589 : The governor of Dieppe, Aymard de Chaste, is faithful of Henri IV. Its support enables him, whereas the king obtains few rallyings to his advent, to have a sure fulcrum and a port where to unload the reinforcements from England, which allows the victory of Arques in September
  • 1632: More than 300 people leave Dieppe and emigrate for the News-France.
  • 1674 : Creation of the first manufacture of the tobaccos with Dieppe.
  • 1685 : With the revocation of the edict of Nantes, Dieppe loses more 3  000 of its inhabitants who emigrate abroad.
  • 1694 : Bombardment of Dieppe by the Anglo-Dutch fleet. Dieppe is set fire to and almost completely destroyed. The city will be rebuilt only very gradually, on a plan of Mister of Ventabren, strongly inspired by Colbert. The manufacture of the tobaccos is rehoused in one of rare preserved constructions, the Miffant house.
  • 1715 : Mutiny (Strike) of the workmen of the manufacture of the tobaccos.
  • 1738 : Inauguration of the new buildings of the Tobacco factory, with the current site of the Aguado hotel.
  • 1774 : Creation of a regular connection with England.
  • 1791 : Privatization of the Manufacture of the Tobaccos. The Tobacco cease to be a Monopoly of the State.
  • 1824 - 1829: Caroline of Bourbon, Duchess of Berry and daughter-in-law of King Charles X inaugurates the first sea bathings in Dieppe (Creation of the sea bathings Caroline). She takes along in her wake a plethora of personalities and members of high the French Bourgeoisie. Dieppe opens on the sea, condemning the fortifications. A casino is built on the sea front.
  • 1848 : Inauguration of the rail link between Paris and Dieppe.
  • Second Empire: Visit Napoleon III and empress Eugenie at the time of their honeymoon. The empress draws the large esplanade of greenery which skirts the maritime walk. Dieppe becomes the place of Villégiature to the mode of the Parisian and London high societies. A new casino out of cast iron and glass is built, a Hippodrome is inaugurated.
  • 1873 : Lord Robert Cecil, Marquis de Salisbury is made build a villa with Puys, upstream of Dieppe.
  • 1886 : Inauguration of the Moorish casino.
  • 1889 : The transport of passengers with England becomes regular and with fixed hours, using steamers with vapor.
  • 1891 : Creation of the 1st working trade union of Dieppe, that of the Manufacture of the Tobaccos. The personnel of manufacture being primarily female, it will be directed by women.
  • 1897 : Inauguration of one of the first grounds of Golf of France on cliff of Dieppe.
  • Beginning of the 20th century: Dieppe is with its apogee. It is until in 1914 the first seaside resort of France. Rival of Trouville, Cabourg or of the Touquet, it is in more one seaport.
  • 1932 : A casino more Art déco succeeds the Moorish casino but the crested customers of Paris and England prefer henceforth to him Deauville, Cabourg and Trouville.
  • 1936 : Beach nearest to Paris, Dieppe accommodates many Paid vacations during the summer whereas the crested customers cut off themselves from Pourville-on-sea in the south from the city.
  • August 19th, 1942: Operation Jubilee, the Allies try an unloading with Dieppe, composed of troops mainly Canadian. The maritime frontage of the city is devastated and the shaven casino. The manufacture of the tobaccos is destroyed. The essential function of this unloading was to test German defenses. For certain historians, the sacrifice of many human lives was disproportionate for an unloading which did not succeed. For others, the attempt partly conditioned the success of the Débarquement of June 6th, 1944.
  • 1944 : Release of Dieppe per overland route and without combat, occupants having given up their position in front of the projection of the allied troops. Transformed into minefields, the beach of Dieppe is almost inaccessible during ten years.
  • 1952 : Regrouping of several villages Acadie NS French-speaking people of the New Brunswick (Seaboard province of the Canada) under the name of commune of Dieppe, with the memory of the Canadian Soldier S killed during the unloading of the allied troops on August 19th, 1942, on the coasts Normans.
  • 1961 : Inauguration of the current casino (the fifth since 1822), in withdrawal of the sea front, and of a center of Thalassotherapy.
  • 1967 : A synthetic ski slope is inaugurated the April 18th in the presence of the minister of sport François Missoffe, of Jacques Anquetil, and international of ski Guy Périllat, Jean-Claude Killy, Annie Famose and of the sisters Goïtschel and the trainer of the team of France of ski Honore Bonnet
  • 1974: Until this time, Dieppe is the 1st banana port of France. The modernization of the banana means of transport of the with the arrival of refrigerating containers makes gradually lose the traffic of the Antilles to the profit of Le Havre. Taking into account their size the Porte-conteneurs cannot enter the port of Dieppe. After 1978, this traffic is definitively lost and only the banana traffic with the continuous Ivory Coast to forward by Dieppe.
  • January 1st 1980: Neuville-lès-Dieppe amalgamates with Dieppe.
  • 1980 : Great strike of the Docker S in July. Stop of the seasonal line Dieppe- Brighton in Seajet.
  • 1982 : Inauguration of the Center of cultural activity Jean Renoir, by François Truffaut.
  • 1985 : Restoration of the small island Holy-Catherine. Creation of residences HLM in buildings builds within Mister de Ventabren. Plan of restoration of the old habitat.
  • 1987 : Destruction of the Moorish villa (built in 1870), with the abandonment since many years, to allow the construction of a hotel two stars on the sea front.
  • 1991 : Creation of a festival of old music.
  • 1992 : The waterway transport Company transmanche (naval ex-armament the SNCF) withdraws its ships of the sea link Dieppe - Newhaven, nonprofitable, following the competition of the Channel tunnel.
  • 1998 : A new marina is inaugurated. The Henri-Iv quay and its poop deck are restored. The demolition of the old harbor station makes it possible to release the esplanade and to discover the frontages of the 18th century.
  • 2002 : The city starts a new economic development policy based on tourism (project of allotment of the Golf, restoration of the Main street, reopening of the small municipal theater closed since 1961) and announces an ecological program of development social (creation of housing in the old prison, construction of habitats guarantors to the ecological standards…).
  • 2007 : a new whole of Seaside resort with ludic basins and a new complex of Thalassothérapie are inaugurated on the maritime frontage of the city.

Administration

Since 1980, the town of Neuville-lès-Dieppe integrated the Municipalité of Dieppe.

In 2003, the town of Dieppe integrated the Communauté of maritime agglomeration of Dieppe into the side of 15 other communes of the district.

Mayors of Dieppe

Mayors of Neuville-lès-Dieppe until 1980

Policy

In Dieppe, taking into consideration result of the legislative elections of 2007, UMP is the first political party of the city of many voters. It is followed of rather near by the PCF which rather largely precedes the PS and the Modem. The result of an election always depends on the level of the carryforwards of voice at the time of the second turn and must much with the quality of the internal reports within each political camp.

The voters of Dieppe did not vote for a right-wing candidate to the presidential elections since 1974 except for Jacques Chirac in 2002. At the time of the first turn of the presidential election of 2007, the Dieppois voters placed Nicolas Sarkozy (27,14  %) at the head of their votes in front of Ségolène Royal (25,58  %), Francois Bayrou (15,13  %) and Jean-Marie Le Pen (11,48  %). To the second turn, it is Ségolène Royal who carries it with 54,51  % of the voices against 45,49  % with Nicolas Sarkozy.

Geographically, if the voters of the districts of the downtown area (Town hall, sea front) and residential (Caude-Coast) vote mainly for the line at the time of the local elections and main roads, those of the popular quarters like Neuville-north, Pollet and Valley-Druel vote definitely on the left.

  • See List of the deputies of the Eleventh district of the Seine-Maritime

Demography

Economy

Pole of regional activities

Dieppe is a sub-prefecture. It offers all the principal public services such as a hospital.

It shelters a railway station in connection with Rouen but it lost its hot line towards Paris, a coach station and small the Aéroport of Dieppe - Saint-Aubin who serves the area.

It gathers great marketing activities such those of the hypermarkets.

It is the seat of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Dieppe. The CCI which was at the origin of the transformation of the quay Henri IV at the end of the years 1990, manage the trade and fishing port until the end of the year 2006 (Starting from January 2007, the management of the port will be ensured by a mixed trade-union).

Maritime activities

Dieppe is a port. It is the first French fishing port for the Scallop, the marina nearest to Paris and a commercial port.

Dieppe was until the end of the Années 1970 the first port Bananier of France. Since the trade of the Banane is done using the containers and thus starting from ports equipped for this type of transport, the traffic transmanche constitutes the essence of the activity of the maritime trade.

Industrial activities

Dieppe is a center of industrial activity important with companies like Renault (Alpine Renault).

Activities of leisures and tourism

Dieppe is a Seaside resort with Plage, casino, golf of 18 holes, a Hippodrome, a marina, shops, and a balneal complex and of Thalassothérapie.

Dieppe accommodates every two years an international demonstration of kites which makes move thousands of people.

During this festival, workshops of clothes industry of kites are accessible to the adults and the children.

The visitors can go to the meeting of various nationalities and exchange way strong sympathetic nerve with many originators of exceptional parts. During days, single air attachments animate the sky of the Norman port for the greatest pleasure of the inhabitants, the visitors and of impassioned.

Tourist monuments and places

Dieppe received the label " Town of Art and History "
  • the Castle of Dieppe: a first “castle” had to exist at the 12th century at the time of Philippe Auguste. The construction of the current castle began in 1443 at the instigation from Charles From Marets. Perhaps the western tower dates from the 14th century. True strong Castle, it presents a very composite architecture today; equipment out of flint and sandstone was often altered. One added to it a Bastion out of bricks and various buildings. It sheltered until in 1923 the Caserne Ruffin.
  • the castle of Dieppe shelters today the Musée of Dieppe where one can admire an important collection of objects in Ivoire (crucifix, chains, statuettes, ranges, snuffboxes…), of works of the painter Georges Directs, the furniture of living room of the pianist Camille Saint-Saëns and the temporary exhibitions.
  • Of the castle, panoramic point of view on the city.
  • the church Saint-Remi (XVIe and 17th centuries): dominating a place of the same name, it is famous to be one of the most beautiful churches of the area. Influences of the Counter-Reformation. Organ Parizot.
  • the church Saint-Jacob (): styles blazing and Rebirth. Wall of the treasure decorated with the plank of the savages.
  • the quay Duquesne with the arcades of the Stock Exchange, the chamber of commerce of Dieppe and the building of the old hardware Leveau (26 quai Duquesne), drawn by Georges Feray, with the oscillating style between modernism and classicism.
  • the quay Henri IV: college of the oratoriens, hotel of the Viscount, hotel of Antwerp (1697), Turn with the crabs (1374). On the wall of the Tower to crabs, a panel of style North-Korean announces since the year 2000 the passage of the anarchist Louise Michel to Dieppe to his return of the Bagne.
  • the district of Pollet: old district of the fishermen with picturesque houses and walk leading to the church Our-Lady-of-Good-Help (1876) at the top of cliff and superb sight on Dieppe.
  • the reformed church of Dieppe (old vault of Carmel).
  • main street until the place of Puit-Salted, pedestrians since 1976.
  • the place of the windmill with its pitoresques houses.
  • the small municipal theater (1900): It is registered with the additional inventory of the historic buildings since 1990. It shelters the museum of the Canadian unloading temporarily. In addition to the interest of the exposure, the interior of the building is of style rubble Louis XV with gildings. This theater with Italian, built by engineer Frissard, was offered by the Duchess of Berry to the municipality in 1826. Altered in 1900, it is contemporary Moorish casino and is one of the last vestiges of the time when Dieppe attracted the aristocracy and the high-bourgeosie European one. Damaged during the Second world war, its frontages are rabillées out of cement in the years 1950. The theater is closed in 1961 while waiting for a possible restoration. It is reopened only in 2002 at the instigation of Edouard Leveau, new mayor of Dieppe. The theater remains a political source of polemic, in particular in 2007 when a project of rehabilitation is proposed by the municipal majority but fought by the local opposition, favorable to its simple demolition.
  • the boulevard of Verdun: (to be compared with the prewar postcards). The middle-class houses located between the street Parmentier and the street of the roads date from the second empire and were the first built dwelling houses. They also constitute the only intact block of houses, former to the Second world war. One will more particularly note the two houses located at more close to the street of the roads of which one kept its wrought iron grid. The other house is old and very beautiful hotel Edward VII (1857). The concrete residences located between the street of the roads and the pier were built after the Second world war and constitute an example of architecture of the period of rebuilding of the immediate post-war period. The Saint Martin's day manor and the close houses were destroyed in the years 1970 to leave the place to large buildings of standing whereas the Moorish house (built in 1870) which had survived the war was destroyed in 1987 on municipal decision to leave room to a hotel two stars without particular style.
  • the Aguado hotel: located boulevard of Verdun, of the Années 1950 structures.
  • the old Royal Hotel (1901): formerly floret of the city, he is the last survivor of the de luxe hotels of the Beautiful time and was reconverted in apartments. It is one of the most beautiful buildings of the boulevard of Verdun.
  • the turrets (15th century): located on the boulevard of Verdun, they are the last vestige of the old rampart of the city.
  • the casino, inaugurated in 1961, succeeded the Moorish casino and the casino Art déco of the Années 1930. Its interior architecture is worth especially the turning.
  • the Beach of rollers which is next to a sand beach with low tide.
  • ESTRAN, the quoted of the sea, place of exposure.
  • old undergrounds and German Blockhouses (Second world war) dissimulated in cliff of the castle.
  • the Colbert bridge: bridge swing metal (1889), 70 meters length, cut into two in 1944, restored two years later, threatened of destruction.
  • the Ango bridge: initially metal bridge swing (1881), destroyed in 1944, rebuilt in raising bridge (1950).
  • houses of the street Jules Ferry, style regionalistic or néo-Norman of the end of the 19th century.
  • the house Miffant (1624), built with wood sides, is a rare vestige of the city before the fire of 1694.
  • a swimming pool of sea water with waves and a center of Thalassotherapy within a news Seaside resort inaugurated on May 15th, 2007.
  • With the surroundings, the communes of Pourville-on-sea, Varengeville (Manor of Ango), Arch-the-Battles, Weak-the-Pinks….

Famous characters

Political personalities

Personalities of the civil life

Twinnings

In memory of the allied unloading of 1942, the town of Light Corner , in Canada, was renamed Dieppe.

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