Previous Location: Maine, Anjou, Tourraine
Google Map (in progress)
See the Pinchon map of Normandie.
Chapter XCV – Julien learns about the ports of Normandy – Le Havre, Cherbourg, and others on the sea, as well as Rouen on the River Seine.
Videos: Côte Normande from Echappées belles; La maison de l’Armateur au Havre – Région Haute-Normandie – Le Monument Préféré des Français, La Gare Maritime Transatlantique – Région Basse-Normandie – Le Monument Préféré des Français, Rouen – Seine Maritime – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir – Documentaire from Le Pays préféré des Français.
Chapter XCVI – The pilote tells Julien about the agricultural specialties of Normandie
Videos: Les moutons des prés-salés from Thalassa; and Le harras du Pin – Région Basse Normandie – Le Monument Préféré des Français from Le Pays préféré des Français.
Chapter XCVII – Julien reads about great men of Normandie – Pierre Corneille, Charles-Irénée Castel, abbé de Saint-Pierre, Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Chapter XCVIII – Shipwreck!
Chapter XCIX – Lifeboat…
Chapter C – Julien prays to God.
Chapter CI – Those on the lifeboat rescue the captain.
Chapter CII – Rescue!
Chapter CIII – Realizing what was and was not lost with the ship, the boys and their uncle look forward to their future.
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Longfellow’s Poems and Places
Caudebec in Seine-Inférieure
Written at Caudebec in Normandy by Arthur Henry Hallam (1811–1833)
Caen in Calvados
Burial of William the Conqueror by Felicia Hemans (1793–1835)
Nihil sub sole novum 