Shortly after the Royal Council for Public Education had given its approval to the teaching of English, the Collège royal de Rouen, the forerunner to the Lycée Corneille, wrote to the rector complaining of difficulty in finding a qualified teacher.

Dieppe followed the English fashion for horse-racing, opening a racecourse as early as 1852 at which steeplechases were held. Followers of horse-racing were known as “sportsmen”, while the word “sport” was used in France only to describe horse-racing, as in the definition given in the 1883 edition of the Littré dictionary.

This middle-class home shows how influential the regionalist trend was both in towns and at the seaside.

Books containing architectural plates became increasingly popular in the second half of the 19th century.

Sea-bathing became fashionable in Normandy in the 19th century, following the trend set in England by Brighton.