Caen, Saint-Étienne, façade.
Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.
Stoddard.
Hundred Years’ War, the town suffered much damage at the hands of the English, who
were resolved to win back their French possessions. Sacked in 1346 and 1417, Caen
served as the base for the English conquest and occupation of Normandy between 1417
and 1450. One positive outcome of the English possession of Caen was the duke of
Bedford’s foundation of its university in the 1430s. After the Battle of Formigny in 1450,
Caen, with the rest of Normandy, returned to the French.
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