Le Havre

Le Havre is a city in Normandy, northern France, on the English Channel at the mouth of the Seine. Population: 200,000. It was the port-of-call for French ocean liners making the Transatlantic crossing (cf Cruise ship).

Le Havre is a sous-préfecture of the département of Seine-Maritime.

The city was founded in 1517, when it was named Le Havre-de-Grâce (hence Havre de Grace, Maryland).

Sister cities inlude:

• Dalian, China

Le Havre was the birthplace of:

• Georges de Scudéry (1601-1667), novelist, dramatist and poet
• Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701), writer
• Gabriel Monod (1844-1912), historian
• Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), composer, a member of Les Six
• Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985), artist
• Raymond Queneau (1903-1976), poet and novelist.