Dieppe (; ; or

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) is a coastal commune in the

Seine-Maritime Seine-Maritime () is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Inf� ...

department,

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, northern

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. Dieppe is a

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on the

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at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to Newhaven in England. Famous for its

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s, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled beach, a 15th-century castle and the churches of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Remi. The mouth of the river Scie lies at

Hautot-sur-Mer Hautot-sur-Mer (, literally ''Hautot on Sea'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Seine-Maritime Departments of France, department in the Normandy (administrative region), Normandy Regions of France, region in northern France. Geography A sm ...

, directly to the west of Dieppe. The inhabitants of the town of Dieppe are called () and () in French.

History

First recorded as a small

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settlement in 1030, Dieppe was an important prize fought over during the

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. It housed the most advanced French school of cartography in the 16th century. Two of France's best navigators, Michel le Vasseur and his brother Thomas le Vasseur, lived in Dieppe when they were recruited to join the expedition of

René Goulaine de Laudonnière Rene Goulaine de Laudonnière (; c. 1529–1574) was a French Huguenot explorer and the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida. Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, a Huguenot, sent Jean Ribault and Laudonni� ...

which departed

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for

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on April 20, 1564. The expedition resulted in the construction of

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, the first French colony in the New World. Another expedition two years before, in which Goulaine de Laudonnière was under the command of

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, a local Huguenot captain, had resulted in the foundation of

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, now in South Carolina. Dieppe was the premier port of the kingdom in the 17th century. After

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died on 6 July 1553, putting a temporary end to

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rule in England,

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left England to evade the Catholic regime of

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. First, under the permission of his friends, he went back to his home country of

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. Then after he stayed in Dieppe for a few months, he continued on his tracks and stayed in

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. There he met one of his influences,

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. On 23 July 1632, 300

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heading to

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departed from Dieppe. At the

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in 1685, Dieppe lost 3,000 of its

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citizens, who fled abroad. Dieppe was an important target in

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time; the town was largely destroyed by an

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- Dutch naval bombardment in 1694. It was rebuilt after 1696 in a typical French classical style by Ventabren, an architect, who gave it its unique feature for a sea port. It was popularised as a

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following the 1824 visit of the widowed

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, daughter-in-law of

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. She encouraged the building of the recently renovated municipal

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, the ''Petit-Théâtre'' (1825), associated particularly with

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. The city enjoyed Mayoral status at this point and in 1787, the ''" Maire de Dieppe"'' was N. Nile. During the later 19th century, Dieppe became popular with English artists as a

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. Prominent literary figures such as Arthur Symons loved to keep up with the latest fads of

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France here, and during "the season" sometimes stayed for weeks on end.

Second World War

Dieppe Dawn 19 August 1942 stained glass Currie Hall

During the

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Dieppe was occupied by German naval and army forces after the

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in 1940. In order to allow a better defence of the coast against a possible Allied landing, the Germans destroyed the mauresque casino that was located near the beach area. The destruction of the casino had only begun at the time of the

Dieppe Raid Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France, during the Second World War. Over 6,050 infantry, predominantly Canadian, supported by a ...

. The raid proved a costly lesson for the Allies. On 19 August 1942, Allied soldiers, mainly drawn from the

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, landed at Dieppe in the hope of occupying the town for a short time, gaining intelligence and drawing the ''

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'' into open battle. The Allies suffered more than 1,400 deaths, 907 Canadian, and 1,946 Canadian soldiers were captured – more prisoners than the army lost in the 11 months of the 1944–45 NW Europe campaign. However, no major objectives were achieved. More recent research suggests the raid was a massive cover for an intelligence operation to capture German code machine components. French soldiers from the region, captured in the fighting of 1940, were returned to the area after the Dieppe Raid as a reward by the German occupation authorities, who felt that the conduct of the French civilians in Dieppe had been correct and had not hindered the defence of the port during the battle. The port remained garrisoned by German forces until the conclusion of the

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. When the

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approached at the end of August, the garrison withdrew, not desiring to enter into battle for the port. Dieppe was liberated on 1 September 1944, by soldiers from the

. On 3 September, the entire division paused for reorganization, and a victory parade was held; contingents representing all major units of the 2nd Division marched 10 abreast behind the massed pipes and drums of the division's highland regiments. A memorial service was held in the nearby Canadian military cemetery to honour those killed in the Dieppe Raid.

Post-war

Starting on 10 June and ending on 11 June 1945, a soldier named Abd el Maleck, armed with a pistol, slew 15 people and wounded 9 others after getting drunk. He was captured on 11 June after being wounded. Maleck was court-martialed for murder and sentenced to death on 22 September 1945. He was executed by firing squad on 14 February 1946.

Dieppe Dieppe (; ; or Old Norse ) is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, northern France. Dieppe is a seaport on the English Channel at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to Newhaven in England ...

, a city in

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, Canada, received its present name in 1946, in honour of the commemoration of the 913 Canadian soldiers killed in the Dieppe Raid. The majority of its inhabitants are of

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descent.

Geography

Dieppe belongs to the

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, lying along the Alabaster Coast in the

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. It is located on the Channel coast, north of Rouen at the mouth of the river Arques and lies east of the mouth of the river Scie.

Climate

Toponymy

Mentioned as ''Deppae'' in 1015–1029, ''Dieppa'' in 1030, then in the 12th century: ''Deppa'', ''Deupa'' and ''Diopa''. From Old English ''dēop'' or Old Norse ''djúpr'' "deep", same meaning.Beaurepaire 67 The Nominalization from an Old English or Norse adjective, being unusual, ''dēop'' / ''djúpr'' could be followed by the Old English word ''ǣ'' / ''ea'' or Old Norse ''á'' "stream, river" (cf. Djúpá, river in Iceland). The same adjective can be recognized in other place-names like Dieppedalle (f. e. Saint-Vaast-Dieppedalle) and Dipdal in Normandy, which is the same as

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in Great Britain. The stream running through Dieppe was called ''Tella'' in

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and

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documents, before being called ''Dieppe'' in the 10th century. The name has stuck to the town, although the name of the stream changed again, to Béthune.

Heraldry

Historical images of Dieppe

File:Dieppe-port.jpg, View of Dieppe's ''Grand quai'' File:Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Harbor of Dieppe - Google Art Project.jpg,

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, '' The Harbour of Dieppe'', 1826 File:The Basket Shop, Rue St Jean, Dieppe - Walter Richard Sickert - ABDAG000288.jpg, Walter Sickert, The Basket Shop, Rue St Jean, Dieppe, – 1912,

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File:Boillot-ACF-GP1912.jpg, Georges Boillot winning the 1912 French Grand Prix in Dieppe File:Carl Spitzweg 051.jpg,

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's painting ''Frauenbad in Dieppe III'' File:Frits Thaulow-Fra Dieppe med elven Arques.jpg, Frits Thaulow's ''Fra Dieppe med elven Arques'' (''From Dieppe with the river Arques'') File:Ernst Oppler - Beach.jpg, Ernst Oppler ''At the beach'' (c. 1912) File:Nicolae Vermont - Plaja (la Dieppe).jpg, Nicolae Vermont's painting ''View of Dieppe's beach'' (1929) File:Flickr - …trialsanderrors - Old castle, Dieppe, France. ca. 1895.jpg, The castle in the 1890s File:Dieppe 18 June 1945 RG373 AERIALFILM A6720 DN5852 OBL 067 01.jpg, Aerial photograph taken in June, 1945 File:Au Val Saint-Nicolas près Dieppe by Claude Monet.jpg, ''Au Val Saint-Nicolas près Dieppe'' by Claude Monet. Painted 1897. Private collection.

Population

Sights

The castle, Château de Dieppe, which survived the 1694 bombardment, is now a museum and exhibition space, with a strong maritime collection. A rich collection of 17th- and 18th-century

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carvings, including lacy folding fans, for which Dieppe was known, and the furnishings and papers of

. The castle's interior courtyard is picturesque. At the Square du Canada, near the castle in a park at the western end of the Esplanade, there is a monument erected by the town commemorating the long relationship between Dieppe and

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. The events recorded begin with the early 16th century, and culminate with the Dieppe Raid and the liberation of Dieppe by Canadians on 1 September 1944. The base of the monument is inscribed with the words "nous nous souvenons" ("we remember"). Above the monument, the

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is flown side by side with that of France. The

Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel of Dieppe The Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours chapel in Dieppe was built in 1876 for sailors who died at sea. It was first a place of pilgrimage before being a parish church, and stands on the coast of the English Channel. Many votive offerings on display here ...

stands on the coast. Some of the Canadian soldiers who were killed are buried in the Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery, in the ''commune'' of Saint-Aubin-sur-Scie south-west of Dieppe. File:CastleDieppe.JPG, Château-musée de Dieppe File:Château-musée de Dieppe.jpg, Château-musée File:Dieppe.JPG, The harbour File:Dieppe2.JPG, The waterfront Various buildings and sights include: *The small municipal theatre, reopened in 2002: the small municipal theater (1900) has been listed in the supplementary inventory of historic monuments since 1990. It has a Louis XV rockery with gilding style. Its Italian-style theatre, built by the engineer Frissard, was donated by the Duchess of Berry to the municipality in 1826. Rebuilt in 190 and enlarged with a foyer facing the sea, it is contemporary with the Moorish casino and is one of the last vestiges of the time when Dieppe attracted the European aristocracy and upper middle class. Damaged during the Second World War, its facades were covered in cement in the 1960s. The theater was closed in 1961. The theater has been a source of political controversy, especially in 2007 when a rehabilitation project was proposed by the municipal majority at the time but fought by the local opposition. *The casino, inaugurated in 1961 in the presence of Robert Buron, Minister of Public Works, Transport and Tourism, succeeds the Moorish casino and the Art Deco casino of the 1930s. It is mainly located on the site of the former Villa Rachel which was demolished to allow its construction. It has a remarkable architecture. *L'Estran Cité de la mer, an associative center for scientific and technical culture on the theme of the Upper Normandy coast, presents over 1,600 m2 of exhibition space, shipbuilding, fishing techniques, the coastal environment and fauna of the English Channel. *The underground aqueduct, also called the aqueduct of the blue source, is a gravity aqueduct which was drilled in the 16th century by the engineer Toustain under the plateau of Janval. Over 6.7 km, it once brought water from an abundant source located in Petit-Appeville to the city, and is still used in 2022 for the electricity and telecommunications networks. *The water tower, in the Vertus district at the entrance to the city of Dieppe, was built in 1971 by the architect Herbelin. It has been decorated since 1973 with a polychrome fresco by Victor Vasarely, made up of orange and black diamonds on a blue background. *A new seaside resort inaugurated on May 15, 2007, contains an outdoor seawater swimming pool, several indoor leisure pools and a thalassotherapy center. *A Canadian military cemetery is present in Dieppe.

Transport

Dieppe railway station, operated by

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, has frequent departures for Rouen-Rive-Droite. SNCF operates also buses to

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-Embranchement through Serqueux. Dieppe has a ferry port with direct services to the English town of Newhaven, situated at the mouth of the River Ouse in

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. The twice-daily service to the Port of Newhaven is operated by

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, under a concession subsidised by the French government. Services are operated using the MS Côte D'Albâtre and MS Seven Sisters.

Current services

(Newhaven: three sailings daily)

Former services

* Hoverspeed (Newhaven: three sailings daily). Withdrawn in 2004. *P&O Stena Line (Newhaven: three sailings daily). Withdrawn in 1999.

Administration

The current mayor of Dieppe is Nicolas Langlois. A member of the

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, he was elected in 2017, and re-elected in 2020.

Economy

Historically a major fishing hub, it is still home to a large ferry port and one of the busiest ports in Europe; in the 17th century the first French East Indies Company operated from the port. Until the mid-19th century the Ave Maria lace, a hand-made lace manufacturer, was largely based in Dieppe. The town is now home to the

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global headquarters.

Sport

The town is home to FC Dieppe, one of the oldest

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clubs in the country having been founded in 1896.

International relations

Dieppe is twinned with * *

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, Canada

Notable people

* Jean Ango (1480–1551), ship owner, provided ships to

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* Jean Parmentier (1494–1529), navigator, cartographer and poet * Jean Cousin (15th century), Normand navigator *

(1520–1565), French navigator and corsaire Protestant * Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit, (ca.1550–1603), naval and military captain and Huguenot trader at

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Salomon de Caus Salomon de Caus (1576, Dieppe – 1626, Paris) was a French Huguenot engineer, once (falsely) credited with the development of the steam engine. Biography Caus was the elder brother of Isaac de Caus. Being a Huguenot, Caus spent his life moving ...

(1576–1626), Huguenot engineer * Isaac de Caus (1590–1648), landscaper and architect, worked in London *

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(ca.1600–1673), French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect *St. Antoine Daniel SJ, (1601–1648), Jesuit missionary, martyr and saint * Jean Asselin (ca.1610–1652), a

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painter and drawer * Abraham Duquesne (1610–1688), general lieutenant of the French Navy * Jean Crasset (1618–1692), Jesuit theologian and ascetical writer * Jean Pecquet (1622–1674), physiologist, wrote on

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and investigated the

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, (1626–1685), colonist of

, first lord of

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* Richard Simon (1638–1712), priest, biblical critic, orientalist and historian * Jean Mauger (1648–1712), an ivory engraver and medallist * Antoine-Augustin Bruzen de La Martinière (1662–1746), polymath, map-writer and scientist * Gabriel de Clieu (ca.1687–1774), naval officer and the governor of

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*St. Jean de Lalande SJ, a 17th-century

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Indians in

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* Adrien de Pauger (died 1726), engineer and architect of the Vieux Carré at

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(1892–1987),

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* Mary Odette (1901–1987), silent film actress * Yvonne Lephay-Belthoise (1914–2011), virtuoso violinist * Valérie Lemercier (born 1964), actress, screenwriter, director and singer * Olivier Frébourg (born 1965), journalist, writer and publisher *

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Sport

* Albert Clément (1883–1907), motor racing driver * Jean Rédélé (1922–2007), car racer and founder of the Alpine car factory * Jéhan Le Roy (1923–1992), equestrian, team bronze medallist at the

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* Jean-Paul Villain (born 1946), steeplechase runner * Emmanuel Petit (born 1970), former footballer with 385 club caps and 63 with

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References

Notes

Bibliography

* * * *Pakenham, Simona. ''Pigtails and Pernod'', London: Macmillan, 1961. *Pakenham, Simona. ''Sixty Miles from England: The English at Dieppe 1814-1914'', London: Macmillan, 1967.

External links

*A tragedy in Dieppe with Oscar Wild
The importance of being Sebastian - in Dieppe - Normandy Then and NowDieppe Town Council websiteGare Maritime Photographs
* {{Authority control Communes of Seine-Maritime Port cities and towns on the French Atlantic coast Ports and harbours of the English Channel Subprefectures in France