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Le Havre, conhecida em português também como o Havre, [2] é uma comuna francesa na região administrativa da Normandia, no departamento Seine-Maritime. Estende-se por uma área de 46,95 km² , com 179 751 habitantes, segundo os censos de 2007, com uma densidade 3 829 hab/km².
It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the river Seine on the Channel southwest of the Pays de Caux, very close to the Prime Meridian. Le Havre is the most populous commune of Upper Normandy, although the total population of the greater Le Havre conurbation is smaller than that of Rouen.
- 46.95 km² (18.13 sq mi)
- Seine-Maritime
Le Havre (/ l ə a v ʁ /) est une commune du nord-ouest de la France située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime en région Normandie. Elle se trouve sur la rive droite de l'estuaire de la Seine, au bord de la Manche. Son port est le deuxième de France après celui de Marseille pour le trafic total et le premier port ...
- Before François I
- The Foundation of Le Havre
- The Wars of Religion
- The 17th and 18th Centuries
- The French Revolutionary Period
- The Prosperity of The 19th Century
- Times of War
- Le Havre After 1945
- Bibliography
Human presence on the territory of Le Havre dates back to Prehistory around 400,000 BC. Many remains from the Neolithic period have been excavated in the lower city and the Montgeon Forest[fr]: it is at this time that the population increased and settled down in the first hamlets. During the Iron Age Celtic people from Caletes settled in the region...
On 8 October 1517, François I signed the founding charter of the port the plans of which are first assigned to Vice Admiral Guyon le Roy. The "big tower" defended the entrance. Despite difficulties associated with marshland and storms, the port of Le Havre welcomed its first ship in October 1518. The king himself travelled there in 1520 and granted...
The Protestant Reformation experienced relative success in Normandy. From 1557, John Venable, library colporteur from Dieppe disseminated in Pays de Caux and Lower Normandy the writings of Martin Luther and John Calvin. The first Protestant church was built in Le Havre in 1600 in the district of Sanvic at 85 rue Romain Rolland. It was destroyed in ...
The defense function of Le Havre was reaffirmed and modernization of the port began in the 16th century on the orders of Cardinal Richelieu, governor of the city: the arsenal and the Roy Basin were developed, the walls were reinforced and a fortress built. It was in the latter that Cardinal Mazarin imprisoned the Fronde princes, Longueville, Conti,...
Between 1789 and 1793 the port of Le Havre was the second largest in France after that of Nantes. The Triangular trade continued until the war and its abolition. The port remained strategic because of the grain trade(supply of Paris) and its closeness to the British enemy. The national events of the French Revolution were echoed in Le Havre: delega...
The end of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars allowed trade to recover normally as the British threat receded. The context of new-found peace and economic growth led to a large influx of population. Le Havre quickly outgrew its walls and new neighbourhoods appeared. Many poor were still crammed into the slum of Saint Francis. Epidemics of choler...
The human toll from the First World War was heavy for the city: Le Havre suffered about 6,000 dead, mostly soldiers who left to fight. The city was spared massive destruction as the front was much further north. Several ships were nevertheless torpedoed by German submarines in the Roadstead. One of the notable facts of the war was the installation ...
General Charles de Gaulle visited Le Havre on 7 October 1944. The city received the Legion of Honouron 18 July 1949 for the "heroism with which it has faced its destruction". In spring 1945, Raoul Dautry of the Ministry of Reconstruction and Urban Development entrusted the project to rebuild the city of Le Havre to Auguste Perret. The city council ...
Bardan, Alice. "Europe, spectrality and 'post-mortem cinema': The haunting of history in Christian Petzold's Transit (2018) and Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre (2011)." Northern Lights: Film & Media Stud...Barzman, John. Dockers, métallos, ménagères: Mouvements sociaux et cultures militantes au Havre (1912–1923)(Le Havre: Publications de l'Université de Rouen. 1998)Barzman, John. "Port labour relations in Le Havre, 1928–1947." International Journal of Maritime History 9.2 (1997): 83-106. Online[dead link]Barzman, John, Corinne Bouillot, and Andrew Knapp. Bombardements 1944: Le Havre, Normandie, France, Europe.(Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2016).Le Havre, conhecida em português também como o Havre, é uma comuna francesa na região administrativa da Normandia, no departamento Seine-Maritime. Estende-se por uma área de 46,95 km², com 179 751 habitantes, segundo os censos de 2007, com uma densidade 3 829 hab/km².
Le Havre, seaport and city, Seine-Maritime département, Normandy région, northwestern France. It is on the English Channel coast and on the right bank of the Seine estuary , 134 miles (216 km) west-northwest of Paris and 53 miles (85 km) west of Rouen by road.
Le Havre is a city in Normandy. It is one of the most important ports in France. It is located on the right bank of the Seine river along the English Channel. The city and port were founded by the King Francis I of France in 1517. The city was bombed during World War II. The damaged area was rebuilt by Auguste Perret from 1945 to 1964.
