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See also: Cliff

Falaise is a common French, located in the department of the Calvados and the area Basse-Normandie.

Its inhabitants is called the Falaisiens .

Geography

It is a city of the North-West of the France, in the south of the department of the Calvados.

It is located on a rocky outcrop, between the valleys of the Ante and the Marescot.

History

Capital of the duchy of Normandy under the reign of Robert Splendid the, it is in this city that was born William the Conqueror, towards 1028, known as the bastard one at the beginning of its life, its mother, Arlette being a girl of tanner. The legend wants that the duke Robert sees it since his castle making the detergent in what will become a monument falaisien, the fountain of Arlette.

The city is taken by Henri IV at the beginning of 1590.

French city decorated with the Legion of honor, Falaise was the seat of a sub-prefecture until in 1926.

The battle of the Cliff Pocket proceeded in August 1944.

See also: Pocket of Cliff

Administration

The community of communes of the Cliff Country gathers 53 communes.

See also: the Community of communes of the Cliff Country

Cliff is the chief town of two cantons:

Demography

Places and monuments

* Castle of Cliff (12th century - 13th century)

  • Place Guillaume-the-Conquering

  • Saint-Gervais Church: more than 900 years of history. Construction begins in 1066 in Romance style then Gothic blazing and Rebirth in 1570.

  • St. Lawrence Church: Romance church from which construction begins at the 11th century, increasing and changing until the 19th century

  • Church of the Trinity

  • Castle of Fresnaye

  • Vault Saint-Lazare

  • Museum August 1944 : it recalls the famous combat of the pocket of Cliff through a collection unique in France of materials and military vehicles.

  • Museum Andre Lemaître: it presents 90 works of the painter, born in Falaise in 1909.

  • Museum of the automats: Automat avenue : reconstitution of the Parisian windows of the years 1920 to 1950.

Celebrities

William the Conqueror, born in Falaise in 1027).

Transport

Cliff is served by the has 88 (in construction, which will in the long term connect Caen to the has 28 (Sées))

Economy

  • Tartefrais, manufacturing plant of frozen tarts (130 employment)

  • Moulinex, factory of household electricals closed in 2001
  • Wind farm of Fine sands, 5 X 2MW = 10MW installed on the territory of the C.D.C. (exploited by S.A. Ventura)
  • NPC, manufacturing plant of dish cooked frozen

External bonds

  • Official site of the town of Cliff

  • Official site of the Community of Communes of the Cliff Country
  • Official site of Cliff the Guillaume-the-Conquering Castle
  • Official site of the Museum Automat Avenue

  • Cliff on Normandieweb

  • Cliff on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Cliff on the site of INSEE
  • Cliff on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Cliff on a chart of France and communes bordering Cliff
  • Plane on Mapquest

See too

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