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| Monaco of the North, they call it. Hmmm. Granville was founded by the English in 1439, as a base from which to attack Mont Saint-Michel. Three years later, the French took Granville, which was never lost again, despite many sieges. The Citadel and old town are on the rocky promontory, the port and new town at its foot. Nowadays Granville is primarily a holiday town where the girls sunbathe and the boys watch. There are excursions to Jersey and to the Iles Chausey, The French Channel Islands which supplied the granite for Mont Saint-Michel. The beach is long and firm, but difficult to approach from the town itself, and covered at low tide – this section of the coast has the biggest tidal range in Europe. Granville is also the fourth most important fishing port in France. | |||
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Christian DIOR (right) spent his summers in Granville in a pink villa (left) on the clifftop.
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