Dieppe main views
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Dieppe's history begins with its site on the estuary of 'La Deep', and its expansion due to William the Conqueror's success in England in 1066 (Duke of Normandy). Dieppe became Normandy's main port.
Dieppe under Jehan Ango (1480-1551)
He was the friend of Francois the First, and his ships voyaged to Brasil and Africa, discovering the coast of Massachussetts, and getting as far as the Indian Ocean. These travels enriched the city.
Canada from 1600s
Colonists and missionaries left for Canada from Dieppe. In the Bombardment of 1694, Dieppe was burnt by an English-Dutch fleet. Buildings were then of wooden frames and so the medieval city was destroyed behind its walls.
New classical Dieppe, reconstructed under Louis XIV
A classically-designed city was reconstructed, of white brick façades, on the orders of Louis XIV, and under M. de Ventabren, an engineer from Vauban. You can see courtyards with wooden, external stairways, and balconies with iron balustrades.
Fashionable sea-bathing
From 1823, under the influence of the Duchess de Berry, the fashion of sea-bathing attracted the international aristocracy. Painters, musicians and writers discovered Dieppe, its coast and the luminosity of Normandy. The old city wall was demolished except for the surviving towered-gate of Les Tourelles, then a prison. A theatre was built under the patronage of Marie-Caroline, Duchess de Berry, in 1827.
De la forteresse... au musée Dominant la ville à laquelle
le reliaient les remparts, le château dresse son austère silhouette
(appareil de silex et de grès) sur une terasse naturelle. En 1443,
Charles Desmarets construit quatre tours reliées par des courtines
englobant la tour Ouest (XIVe siècle). L'enceinte s'agrandit au
XVIe pauis au XVIIe siècle, incorporant le clocher de l'ancienne
église Saint-Rémy. Prison à la Révolution,
caserne au XIXe siècle, le château est racheté par
la ville en 1902 pour être transformé en musée. A découvrir
: la plus remarquable collection d'ivoires d'Europe. (Dès le XVIe
siècle, l'ivoire débarqué à Dieppe est sculpté
sur place.)
