Driving from Neufchâtel-en-Bray to Berck in Northern France.
Filmed in March 2024.
Neufchâtel-en-Bray is a commune situated in the Seine-Maritime department of the Normandy Region, northern France. The Neufchâtel cheese is made in the area.
Neufchâtel is a commune of the Pays de Bray, and is traversed by the river Béthune and its tributary the Philbert.
Neufchâtel is situated about 10 miles (16 km) from Londinières and Saint-Saëns, about 12 miles (19 km) from Forges-les-Eaux, about 15 miles (24 km) from Buchy, about 19 miles (31 km) from Aumale, about 20 miles from Blangy-sur-Bresle and about 25 miles (40 km) from Dieppe.
Major highways
The city is located near the intersection of Autoroute A28 which runs from Rouen to Abbeville and A29 (the Beuzeville-Le Havre-Amiens-Saint-Quentin route).
Old forms: Drincurt (1040–1047), Druoncurt 1152, Drioncurt (1174–1188), Driencourt was the most common form often distorted as Lincourt, an old toponym that disappeared completely by the 15th century.
It signifies “Drugo’s farm”, the name of a Germanic person, which is always declined in the oblique case for names ending in -court and found in the patronym Druon. “Driencourt” has a homonym with Driencourt (Somme). Names ending in -court predate the formation of the Duchy of Normandy and correspond with the Frankish expansion.
The old parish of Nogent, from the Celtic Novientum “new establishment” (perhaps the primitive Gallic name), has been linked to Neufchâtel.
It received its current name from a castle built there by Henry Beauclerc in the 12th century. At that time, it began to be called by its Norman name, Neufcastel, and was referred to by both names until the 15th century.
A French form usually replaces a dialectal form, as is noted, with large towns. North of the Joret line, the form of the name normally would be Neufcastel, like the very small village of Radicatel. On the other hand, Bourg-Achard or Pont-de-l’Arche underwent the same Francization: they are normally Bourg-Acard (similar to the surname Acard) and Pont-de-l’Arque (see also Arques-la-Bataille, a small parish).
Notable personalities:-
Jehan de Launay (also known as Launoy, Lannais or Lasne): Captain of the Kortrijk garrison in 1380 and captain of the Ghent rebels in 1381. Commanding several thousand men, he was defeated at the Battle of Nevele (near Ghent) on 13 May 1381 by the troops of Louis of Male, Count of Flanders. After that defeat, he found refuge in the Bray Country in the lands of his maternal grandmother Jeanne de Calletot where he sided with the King of England. Jehan de Launay became the captain of the town and fortress at Neufchâtel-en-Bray. He probably died in 1414. He was the son of Mathieu de Launay and a lady of the House of Montmorency and the grandson of Jean de Launay, Lord of Lannay and Thieusies, Baron of Rumes, Grand Bailiff of Hainaut.
Clement Lasne (also known as Laisne): Legal counsel and advisor to Catherine of France, Queen of England, until 1436 for her dowery of Neufchâtel-en-Bray.
Jehan Lasne (also known as Laisne): Lieutenant of the Bailiff of Caux who oversaw the resurgence of Neufchâtel-en-Bray in the first half of the 15th century (the son of Clement Lasne).
Catherine of Valois, Queen of England, spouse of Henry V, King of England: She stayed in Neufchâtel-en-Bray around 1436 when Clement Lasne was her legal counsel and advisor.
Louis XI of France and Charlotte of Savoy stayed there.
Adrien Milton, President of the Elections of Neufchâtel-en-Bray, author of a thesis on the history of this city and its environs.
Percheval de Grouchy: Royal prosecutor at Neufchâtel-en-Bray, author of the Latin Poem “Saliberna” dedicated to penitent priests, successors to the first monks. Grouchy preserved the old family coat of arms: “Or, fretty of six pieces azure”. The Grouchy-Robertot family, meanwhile, carried “argent with three trefoils vert”, the arms of the d’Escorchebœuf family, taken by Jean I in about 1370 and were modified in 1671.
Charles Lemercier de Longpré, baron d’Haussez (born 20 October 1778, in Neufchâtel – died 10 November 1854, Saint-Saëns), French politician, Deputy of the Lower Seine and Minister of the Navy (1829–1830) during the Second Restoration.
Paul-Napoléon Roinard (1856–1930), poet
David Douillet (born 17 February 1969 in Rouen), French judoka, Olympic and world champion.
Bruno Thiboult (born 8 May 1969 in Neufchâtel-en-Bray), former professional cyclist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neufch%C3%A2tel-en-Bray
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