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Dieppe
France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and comprises various overseas islands and territories which are located in other regions. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. At 674,843 square kilometres, France is the world's 40th-largest country after Myanmar. France is a member of The European Union and Paris is the capital of this nation. The sole official language of France is French. Since prehistoric times, France has been a crossroads of trade, migrations, and invasions.
Dieppe is a town and commune in the Seine-Maritime département of Haute-Normandie or eastern Normandy, France. The population of the city or commune at the 1999 census was 34,653 inhabitants or as they are referred to Dieppois, whereas the whole metropolitan area or aire urbaine had 81,419 inhabitants.
A port on the English Channel, famous for its scallops, with a regular ferry service to Newhaven, East Sussex from Gare Maritime, Dieppe also has a popular beach, a 15th century castle and the churches of St. Jacques and St. Remy. Dieppe belongs to the Pays de Caux region.
First recorded as a small fishing settlement in 1030, Dieppe was an important prize fought over during the Hundred Years' War. Dieppe housed the most advanced French school of cartography in the 16th century, and was the premiere port of the kingdom in the 17th century. On the 23rd of July 1632, 300 colonists headed for New France departed from Dieppe. At the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Dieppe lost 3000 of its Huguenot citizens, who fled abroad.
Dieppe was an important target in wartime, the town was largely destroyed by Anglo-Dutch naval bombardment in 1694. It was rebuilt after 1696, it was popularised as a seaside resort following the first visit in 1824 of the widowed Duchess of Berry, daughter-in-law of Charles X. She encouraged the building of the recently-renovated municipal theater, the Petit-Theatre of 1825, associated above all others with Camille Saint-Saens.
France today is one of the most modern countries in the world and is a leader among European nations. There's a term for their seductive lifestyle, Douce France or Sweet France and you'll find yourself using it often. Douce France taught the world just how sweet life should be.
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