GIORGIO @ DIEPPE 2006

Dieppe est une commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime et la région Haute-Normandie. Ses habitants sont appelés les Dieppois.Dieppe est à l'embouchure de l'Arques dans la Manche. D'après l'historien François de Beaurepaire [1], les plus anciennes attestation du nom remontent au 11ème siècle: Dieppa (1030), Deppa, Deupa ou encore Diopa au XIIe siècle. Ce nom est emprunté à une appellation transitoire de la rivière qui se jette en ce lieu dans la Manche. Cette rivière appelée Tella dans les textes mérovingiens et carolingiens, est désignée "Dieppe" (Deppae 1015-1029) après l'installation de colons anglo-scandinaves avant de prendre le nom de Béthune, "qui en l'état de nos informations n'est pas attesté avant le 16ème siècle". Le nom de Dieppe représente soit l'anglo-saxon deop profond, soit le scandinave djupr de même sens. Cet adjectif se retrouve dans d'autres toponymes normands: Saint-Vaast-Dieppedalle, Dieppedalle (Canteleu) (vallée profonde) ou Dipdal (Cotentin) de même origine. Ce fleuve a longtemps séparé la ville en deux quartiers, est et ouest. Le quartier est aurait pris l'appellation du Pollet par la contraction linguistique « Port de l'Est ». On a également retrouvé dans des documents l'appellation « Port de l'Ouest ». Cependant Pollet pourrait bien avoir une origine celtique. "Pol"/"Poul" voulant dire aussi bien "trou" que "profond" ou "étang" cf. Paimpol (Bretagne). Le Pollet est désormais une presqu'île depuis le creusement, en 1848, d'un bassin supplémentaire au port. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Dieppe is a town and commune in the Seine-Maritime department and Haute-Normandie region of France. At the 1999 census the town had 34,653 inhabitants (Dieppois), while the population of the whole Dieppe urban area (aire urbaine) was 81,419. A port on the English Channel, famous for its scallops, and with a regular ferry service from the Gare Maritime to Newhaven in England, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled beach, a 15th-century castle and the churches of Saint Jacques and Saint Rémi.First recorded as a small fishing settlement in 1030, Dieppe was an important prize fought over during the Hundred Years' War. Dieppe housed the most advanced French school of cartography in the 16th century, and was the premier port of the kingdom in the 17th century. On July 23, 1632, 300 colonists heading to New France departed from Dieppe. At the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Dieppe lost 3000 of its Huguenot citizens, who fled abroad. Dieppe was an important target in wartime; the town was largely destroyed by an Anglo-Dutch naval bombardment in 1694. Rebuilt after 1696, it was popularised as a seaside resort following the 1824 visit of the widowed Duchess of Berry, Charles X's daughter-in-law. She encouraged the building of the recently-renovated municipal theater, the Petit-Theatre (1825), associated particularly with Camille Saint-Saëns. During the later nineteenth century, Dieppe became popular with English artists as a beach resort. Prominent literary figures such as Arthur Symons loved to keep up with the latest fads of avant-garde France here, and during "the season" sometimes stayed for weeks on end. The Dieppe Raid in the Second World War became known as a bloody battle, and a costly one for the Allies. On August 19, 1942 Allied soldiers, mainly drawn from the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, landed at Dieppe in the hope of occupying the town for a short time, gaining intelligence and drawing the Luftwaffe into open battle. The Allies suffered more than 1,400 deaths, 1,946 Canadian soldiers were captured, and no major objectives were achieved. Dieppe was liberated on September 1, 1944 by soldiers from the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division. Dieppe, New Brunswick (previously Léger Corner) received its present name in 1946, in honour of the Canadian soldiers killed in the Dieppe Raid. [edit] Famous people Louis de Broglie, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was born in Dieppe. Emmanuel 'Manu' Petit, a World Cup-winning footballer, is from Dieppe. St. Jean de LaLande SJ, a seventeeth century Jesuit brother who was martyred by the Iroquois Indians in present-day New York State. St. Antoine Daniel SJ, martyr and saint. Jean (Johan) Cossin(s), one of the first to show the Sinusoidal projection, he used it for a world map of 1570.