Dieppe

Dieppe is a coastal community in the Arrondissement of Dieppe in the Seine-Maritime branch inside the Normandy region of northern France. The population stood at 34,670 in 2006. A port on the English Channel, at the mouth of the Arques river, well-known for its scallops, and with a regular ferry provider to Newhaven in England, Dieppe additionally has a popular pebbled seaside, a fifteenth-century citadel and the churches of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Remi. The mouth of the Scie river lies in the Canton of Dieppe-Ouest at Hautot-sur-Mer. The population of the town of Dieppe are called Dieppois and Dieppoise in French.

First recorded as a small fishing settlement in 1030, Dieppe changed into an critical prize fought over at some stage in the Hundred Years' War. Dieppe housed the most superior French faculty of cartography inside the sixteenth century. Two of France's fine navigators, Michel le Vasseur and his brother Thomas le Vasseur, lived in Dieppe after they had been recruited to sign up for the expedition of Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere which departed Le Havre for Florida on April 20, 1564. The excursion resulted in the production of Fort Caroline, the primary French colony inside the New World.