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French Normandy was occupied by English forces during the Hundred Years' War in 1346-1360 and again in 1415-1450. Afterwards, prosperity returned to Normandy until the Wars of Religion when many Norman towns (Alençon, Rouen, Caen, Coutances, Bayeux) joined the Reformation and battles ensued throughout the province. During the French Revolution, Normandy generally supported the idea of a Federal republic against the highly centralized conception championed by the Jacobins in Paris.
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French Normandy was occupied by English forces during the Hundred Years' War in 1346-1360 and again in 1415-1450. Afterwards, prosperity returned to Normandy until the Wars of Religion when many Norman towns (Alençon, Rouen, Caen, Coutances, Bayeux) joined the Reformation and battles ensued throughout the province. In the Channel Islands, a period of Calvinism following the Reformation was suppressed when Anglicanism was imposed following the English Civil War.
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After the French conquest, the history of Normandy is less eventful. In 1465 Normandy was given as an appanage to Charles, brother of King Louis XI., who was deprived of it in 1467. The kings of France tried to win the support of Normandy by certain favours, such as maintaining the provincial Estates and the University of Caen, founded by the kings of England, and transforming the Exchequer of Normandy into a permanent court of justice (1499) which was called the Parlement of Normandy and sat at Rouen in the famous Palais de Justice. Among the measures which contributed to the increase of the prosperity of Normandy should be noted the construction in 1752 of the Havre de Grace.
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In a tiny hamlet in Normandy a French couple had successfully ran a B&B for many years. They had a website whose domain name was the same as the small hamlet they lived in. A year or so ago they sold their property to an English family, who did not take on the website and domain name and allowed it to expire. The new owners moved in, timed passed and the new owners began to make lots of changes to the property.
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Normandy did not exist as an historical homogeneous land before 911 and the 'treaty' of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte. From 911 to 1204, Normandy nominally depended of the kingdom of France but was de facto one of the best organized states in medieval Europe. Since 1204, continental Normandy is a French province. Of course, the name of Normandy did not exist before the Norsemen, but it will be used below in an anachronical manner for the sake of simplicity.
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In 1204, during the reign of King John, mainland Normandy was taken from England by France under Philip II while insular Normandy (the Channel Islands) remained under English control. In 1259, Henry III of England recognized the legality of French possession of mainland Normandy under the Treaty of Paris . His successors... often fought to regain control of mainland French Normandy.
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