Un café à Sainte-mère l'Eglise

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Sainte Mère L'Eglise

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Sainte Mère L'Eglise

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Son histoire a commencé bien avant "le jour le plus long", avec Guillaume de Sainte-Mère-Église, sacré évêque de Londres en 1199, les ravages des troupes anglaises au XIVe siècle,la peste, les guerres de religion, l'existence d'une importante communauté protestante au XVIIe, la révolution de 1789, les chouans avec l'exécution en 1796 de leur chef, le vicomte de Bricqueville, l'épopée napoléonienne, la vie municipale sous le Second Empire, etc...

Founded in the XIIth Century, the earliest records show its first name was "Sanctae Mariae Ecclesia" Latin for Church of the Holy Mother. The current French is ambiguous with the additional meaning, "Holy Mother Church." The town was a significant factor in the 100 Years War as well as the Wars of Religion.

The town's main claim to fame is that it played a significant part in the World War II Normandy landings because this village stood right in the middle of route N13, which the Germans would have most likely used on any significant counterattack on the troops landing on Utah and Omaha Beaches. In the early morning of 6 June 1944 mixed units of the U.S. 82nd Airborne and U.S. 101st Airborne Divisions occupied the town in Operation Boston, giving it the claim to be one of the first towns liberated in the invasion.

Pointe du Hoc - Sainte Mère l'Eglise

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