Map of Normandy area, ... Rouen became one of France's greatest ports. ... this Upper Normandy town on the Seine is a delightful place to visit.

Since WWII, France’s windswept northern coast has been a place of pilgrimage. But not far from the somber beauty of the D-Day beaches lie a series of little towns where old-fashioned Gallic ...

France's small towns are reeling from the spread of rioting. ... In Rugles, a Normandy village of 2,200, rockets were fired outside the Intermarché supermarket and fires lit.

Like many people, I’d been to Paris a few times, and I’d driven through the Van Gogh country of Southern France. But I’d never set foot in the province of Normandy in the north along the ...

From the Allied beachhead, TIME Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker cabled a coolly realistic account of Normandy and the Normans: Along the roads of the Manche and Calvados, beside the ...