Le Havre
Le Havre, France, is one of Normandy's
principal seaports, and one of the most important for Channel
crossings to and from England.
Le Havre, 134 miles west-northwest of Paris, lies in the
Seine-Maritime département, Haute-Normandie région
of northern France, across the English Channel from England.
Throughout the Middle Ages, Le Havre was only a fishing village,
but beginning in 1517 it became the site of a fortified harbor
and of much new architecture, including the Church of Notre-Dame,
one of the few old buildings to survive the Second World War.
The harbor was improved throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries.
