Saint-Gilles () is a
commune in the
Manche department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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in
Normandy in north-western
France.
In 1848
John Ruskin and his new wife, the former
Effie Gray, visited St Gilles. Ruskin noted "The Church of Saint Giles has some remarkable examples of the final stage of transition from flamboyant to Renaissance".
[The Diaries of John Ruskin, 1848-1873 selected and edited by Joan Evans and John Howard Whitehouse, Oxford at the Clarendon press, 1958]
See also
*
Communes of the Manche department
References
Saintgilles
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