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2 unusual facts about Bénouville, Calvados


Canal de Caen à la Mer

The famous Pegasus Bridge (aka "Ham"), from D-Day, June 6, 1944, crossed the canal near the village of Bénouville.

Lynmouth

The town of Lynton and Lynmouth is twinned with Bénouville in France.


Agglomeration community of Caen la Mer

In this context, the community is associated with the General Council of Calvados in a joint union called Viacités, the transport organizing authority of the agglomeration, to whom it delegates its public transport network - the bus and tram network Twisto.

Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy

Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy (née Boyvin d'Hardancourt, 13 December 1744 Paris – 5 December 1824 Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados) was a French musician and composer.

Banville

Banville, Calvados, a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France

Beurre d'Isigny

Beurre d'Isigny is a type of cow's milk butter made in the Veys Bay area and the valleys of the rivers running into it, comprising several French communes surrounding Isigny-sur-Mer and straddling the Manche and Calvados departments of northern France.

Bikala

Bikala was retired from racing to become a breeding stallion at the Haras du Val Henry near Tortisambert, Calvados.

Bus Verts du Calvados

Bus Verts du Calvados is a network of interurban buses in the département of Calvados, France.

Calvados

The Conseil General of Calvados and Devon County Council signed a Twinning Charter in 1971 to develop links with the English county of Devon.

Its etymology is most likely derived from the Salvador, a ship from the Spanish Armada that sank by the rocks near Arromanches-les-bains in 1588.

The Bayeux Tapestry is on display in Bayeux and makes the city one of the most-visited tourist destinations in Normandy.

Château de Bénouville

It was designed in 1769 by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux and built in 1770-74 and 1776-80 at the request of Hyppolite-François Sanguin, marquis of Livry (1715–1789) and his marquise Thérèse Bonne Gillain de Bénouville, heiress of the property.

Château de Creully

The Château de Creully is an 11th- and 12th-century castle located in the town of Creully in the Calvados département of France.

Chateau de Guernon-Ranville

The château de Guernon-Ranville is located in Le Bas de Ranville in the village of Ranville, in the Calvados region Calvados of Lower Normandy in France.

Den Brotheridge

Brotheridge's platoon's glider piloted by Staff Sergeant Jim Wallwork landed in Normandy at 00.16hrs on 6 June: landing less than 50 feet from the water tower of the Benouville Bridge and Brotheridge led the first charge across the bridge, now known as Pegasus Bridge.

Ellen Whitaker

Royal Rose (*1998), Dutch Warmblood, Stallion, Father: Calvados, Owner: Steven Whitaker

Equimax Ocolado (* 1996), Dutch Warmblood, Gelding, Father: Habsburg, Mother's Father: Calvados, Owners: Dawn Makin & Steven Whitaker

Haras d'Ouilly

The Haras d'Ouilly is a renowned horse breeding farm in Pont-d'Ouilly, Calvados in the Basse-Normandie region of France established in the 19th century.

Haras de Saint Pair du Mont

Haras de Saint Pair du Mont is a Thoroughbred horse breeding farm at Le Cadran near Cambremer in Calvados, Normandy.

Henri de Régnier

He was born at Honfleur (Calvados) on the 28th of December 1864, and was educated in Paris for law.

Henri-Benjamin Rainville

Born in Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir, Quebec, the son of Felix Rainville, a farmer of French descent from Touques (Calvados), and Marie Daignault, Rainville obtained his elementary and classical education at the colleges of St. Hyacinthe and Ste.

Honfleur, Quebec

The name comes from the archbishop of Quebec, cardinal Louis-Nazaire Bégin, (1840-1925) whose ancestor came from Saint-Léonard-de-Honfleur, archdiocise of Lisieux, also situated in Calvados.

Founded in 1904, the municipality of Honfleur is similar to Honfleur, city in Calvados, Normandie, where many sailors came from during the 16th and 17th century to North America.

Jean-Pierre Jaussaud

Jean-Pierre Jaussaud (born June 3, 1937 in Caen, Calvados) is a French former racing driver, more famous for winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1978 and 1980.

La Bluette

The house is located in Hermanville-sur-Mer, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, a seaside hamlet of 2,661 (at the 1999 census) in north-western France.

Louis N. Parker

He was born in Calvados, France, the son of the American Charles Albert Parker, who was a grandson of American congressman and judge Isaac Parker, and the Englishwoman Elizabeth Moray.

Louis-Karim Nébati

Louis-Karim Nébati (born August 25, 1971) is a French actor, born in Bénouville (Calvados).

Philippe Duron

Philippe Duron has also been the mayor of Louvigny (Calvados), and was elected mayor of Caen on 16 March 2008.

Repentigny

Repentigny, Calvados, a commune of the département of Calvados, in France

Robert Fitzhamon

Robert Fitzhamon (died March 1107), or Robert FitzHamon, Sieur de Creully in the Calvados region and Torigny in the Manche region of Normandy, was Lord of Gloucester and the Norman conqueror of Glamorgan, southern Wales.

Saint-Pierre-du-Mont Airfield

Saint-Pierre-du-Mont Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield which is located in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northern France.

Sidney Bates

Sidney Bates grave can be found in the Bayeux Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Calvados, France.

Vassy

Vassy, Calvados, a commune in the Calvados département, France

Villers-Bocage

Villers-Bocage, Calvados, in the Calvados département, and the site of the Battle of Villers-Bocage

William de Falaise

William de Falaise (11th century), also called William of Falaise, was a Norman from Falaise, Normandy, today in the Calvados department in the Lower Normandy region of north-western France.

William of St. Barbara

From William's name, it is presumed that he was a native of Sainte-Barbe-en-Auge in Calvados in Normandy.


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