This is Veules les Roses !!!

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Let me bring out to Normandie again. We have come here several times especially when living in Versailles , and have written plenty, However, found me again a new picture from my cd rom vault that should be in my blog. This was a nice find ,worth the detour !! As a nice introduction to the village. Therefore, let me tell you about this is Veules les Roses !!! Hope you enjoy it as I.

The village of Veules-les-Roses is located by the sea, in the dept 76 of Seine-Maritime,in the Normandie region of my belle France. It is among “the most beautiful villages in France”. The village is located 7 km from Saint-Valery-en-Caux, 26 km from Dieppe, 65 km from Rouen, 194 km from Paris, 187 km from Versailles, and 465 km from my current home.

Between Fécamp and Dieppe, installed on the Caux plateau overlooking the cliffs of the Côte d’Albâtre, Veules-les-Roses offers all the attractions of a village between sea and countryside. Before throwing itself into the Channel, the Veules, the smallest river in France, offers a green and flowery course over the mills and smoke towers, while villas and bathroom cabins recall the origins of the seaside resort.

Things to see here are the Church Saint Martin (see post), and three houses and seaside villas at 6, 13 and 25 rue du Docteur-Pierre-Girard (D 142), The Jardin Saint-Nicolas, in which we find the ruins of the church of the same name and the haloed hosanniere cross of the 15C, The monument to Victor Hugo, at Place Mélingue, The Abreuvoir or drinking trough bordered by lovely cottages, the ford of the drinking trough keeps an authenticity which makes it the current charm. Go along the Veules river to pass on the sandstone gateway.

Veules les Roses ancien abreuvoire on La Veules river dec23

Been a renown seaside resort for many years many notables passed or stayed here some of my favorites amongst the many were as early as 1840, the actress of the Comédie-Française, Mademoiselle Anaïs, led to her enthusiasm the actor Etienne Mélingue. The writer Paul Meurice several times receives his friend Victor Hugo there. The writer Michel Bussi wrote a news dedicated to the actress in his work Do you remember my Anaïs ?. He imagines a secret kept by the young woman and who would involve Victor Hugo, Several Russian painters of the 19C were here such as Alexei Bogolioubov who discovered Normandy in 1857, Konstantine Savitski, Alexei Harlamov and Karl Goun. Two representatives of Scottish colorists Samuel Peploe and John Duncan Fergusson also put their easels there.

The landscape painters brothers, Xavier and César de Cock ,also, the actors Paul-Louis Leroux (de la Comédie-Française) and Eugène Pierron, Alexandre Dumas-Son, José-Maria de Heredia, Henri Rochefort, Alexis Bouvier, Jules Michelet, Victor Hugo, The poets Jean Richepin and François Coppée, the playwright Jules Claretie, Henri Lavedan, Émile Bergerat and the composer Alexandre Georges. Politicians like Albert Clemenceau or Pierre Taittinger also attend the station. Victor Boucher, Georges Chamarat, Saint-Granier, the writer Maurice Privat, Dominique Bonnaud as well as the sportsmen Suzanne Lenglen and Lucien Gaudin frequent the village. Anna Hope Hudson established a hospital for soldiers during the Great War or WWI.

The Veules Les Roses tourist office on its heritage : https://tourisme.veules-les-roses.fr/que-decouvrir-a-veules/

The town of Veules les Roses : https://mairie.veules-les-roses.fr/horaires-douverture-de-la-mairie/

The Seine Maritime dept 76 tourist office on Veules les Roses : https://www.seine-maritime-tourisme.com/fr/je-decouvre/10-lieux-incontournables/veules-les-roses/veules-les-roses.php

The Normandie region tourist office on Veules les Roses : https://www.normandie-tourisme.fr/les-incontournables/plus-beaux-villages-de-france-en-normandie/veules-les-roses/

There you go folks, another dandy in historical Normandie, a nice encounter in my road warrior tours of always ; memorable moments for us too. Again, hope you enjoy this post on this is Veules les Roses as I,

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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Published by pedmar10

I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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