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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:
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.
