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August 9, 2013 by Max Distro LLC

Dieppe, La Côte d’Albâtre, Normandy

Harbor of Dieppe. La Côte d'Albâtre, Normandy

Harbor of Dieppe. La Côte d'Albâtre, Normandy

This post on Dieppe is my last on the Alabaster Coast (Côte d'Albâtre) in Normandy. Sheltered between two high cliffs, Dieppe stretches on either side of the river Arques as it empties into the Atlantic. Seaside and tourist resort of the Alabaster coast valued by the English and Parisians, the town has conserved very few architectural souvenirs of its golden age. Dieppe is sometimes called the Viking town. It traces its history as a human settlement and port back to the arrival of the Vikings on this coast at the beginning of the tenth century AD. Of course, there were other people living in these parts before then, and the Romans passed this way before the Vikings. But the Romans did not leave such important traces of their occupation here as they did elsewhere. The Vikings, from Scandinavia, settled in and around Dieppe because of the hospitable harbour they found for their ships at the river estuary that cuts through a forbidding line of cliffs. The name Dieppe derives from the Viking term “djepp”, meaning “deep”.

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Filed Under: Clocks and Astrolabes, France, Rouen and Normandy Tagged With: Alabaster Coast, Arques River, Dieppe, Dieppe School of Cartography, Festival International de Cerf-Volant de Dieppe, Guillaume Brouscon, Hadley Octant, La Côte d'Albâtre, Marine Astrolabe, Marine Chronometer, Marine Quadrant, Normandy, Sextant

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