Falaises près de Dieppe ( Cliffs near Dieppe ) has been stolen on two separate occasions: once in 1998 ( in which the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years and two months along with two accomplices ) and most recently in August 2007.

He personally pushed through the disastrous Dieppe Raid of 19 August 1942, ( which some among the Allied forces, notably Field Marshal Montgomery, later claimed was ill-conceived from the start ).

The raid on Dieppe was widely considered a disaster, with casualties ( including those wounded or taken prisoner ) numbering in the thousands, the great majority of them Canadians.

The town of Dieppe was the site of the unsuccessful Dieppe Raid by Canadian and British armed forces.

Construction began with the interdict hanging over Normandy, but it was later repealed in April 1197 by Pope Celestine III, after Richard made gifts of land to Walter de Coutances and the diocese of Rouen, including two manors and the prosperous port of Dieppe.

A short-lived French Huguenot settlement was established at Dieppe Bay in 1538.

Terra Australis was depicted on the mid-16th-century Dieppe maps, where its coastline appeared just south of the islands of the East Indies ; it was often elaborately charted, with a wealth of fictitious detail.

Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, ForMemRS (; ; Dieppe, France, 15 August 1892 – Louveciennes, France, 19 March 1987 ) was a French physicist and a Nobel laureate in 1929.

Louis de Broglie was born to a noble family in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, younger son of Victor, 5th duc de Broglie.

Raeder charged that British Commandos had committed atrocities against German forces during the Dieppe raid, and the Commando Order was only a reasonable German response to what he called the British " deviation " from the laws of war.

Participation in a variety of events continued until World War I, but it was in 1912 that Peugeot made its most notable contribution to motor sporting history when one of their cars, driven by Georges Boillot, won the French Grand Prix at Dieppe.

In the north, in the first week of September, the British 21st Army Group, under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, sent its British Second Army commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey advancing on a line running from Antwerp to the northern border of Belgium while its First Canadian Army, under Lieutenant-General Harry Crerar, was pursuing its task of recapturing the ports of Dieppe, Le Havre and Boulogne-sur-Mer.

In August 1942 Anglo-Canadian forces attempted an abortive landing — Operation Jubilee — at the French port of Dieppe ; the landing was designed to test the feasibility of a cross-channel invasion.

Early tank-mounted flamethrower vehicles included the ' Badger ' ( a converted Ram tank ) and the ' Oke ', used first at Dieppe ; the most famous flame tank was the Churchill Crocodile.

One ship was separated from the others in a gale near the Cape Verde Islands, but Verrazzano reached the coast of Brazil with two ships and harvested a cargo of brazilwood before returning to Dieppe in September.

During World War II, large numbers of Canadian troops were stationed at Newhaven, and the ill-fated Dieppe Raid in 1942 was largely launched from the harbour.

The second was issued by Hitler personally in October, following the Dieppe Raid by the British and Canadians on the coast of France.

Jean Rédélé ( 1922-2007 ), the founder of Alpine, was originally a Dieppe garage proprietor, who began to achieve considerable competition success in one of the few French cars produced just after World War 2.

After production of the A610 ended, the Alpine factory in Dieppe produced the Renault Sport Spider and a new era was to begin.

* 1922-Jean Rédélé was born on May 17, 1922 in Dieppe in French Normandy.

In parallel he prepares his Renault 4CV for local racing events ( his first rallye was Dieppe Rallye in 1950 ) and later on he is successful at Rallye Monte Carlo.

He was born at Dieppe.

This includes commandos killed in the Dieppe and St Nazaire Raids ; and Special Operations Executive personnel who died in occupied Europe.

On 19 August 1942, 50 Rangers fought alongside Canadian and British commandos in the ill-fated Dieppe raid on the coast of occupied France.

It operated as air cover for the Dieppe Raid, and later flew fighter sweeps and escort operations over occupied France and the Low Countries.

Clear Water Academy, a private Catholic school, was established on the former CFB Calgary property and occupied three historic buildings along Dieppe Avenue.

* 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured.

Philip now pressed his advantage in northeastern Normandy, where he conducted a raid at Dieppe, during which he burnt the English ships in the harbour, repulsing an attack by Richard at the same time.

According to several ancient sources, including occasions by the Dictionnaire de pédagogie et d ' instruction primaire by Ferdinand Buisson in 1887, the first French settlement in Senegal dates back to the Dieppe Mariners in the 14th century.

Otherwise, King continued with a campaign to recruit volunteers, hoping to address the problem with the shortage of troops caused by heavy losses in the Dieppe Raid in 1942, in Italy in 1943, and after the Battle of Normandy in 1944.

: Occupied by the Wehrmacht, Seine-Maritime is the witness of two Allied military raids in 1942, the Bruneval raid and Dieppe raid.

* 2 July — the second French Grand Prix, organised by the Automobile Club de France ( ACF ), is run at Dieppe.

* 7 July — the third French Grand Prix, organised by the Automobile Club de France ( ACF ), is run at Dieppe over 477. 48 miles ( 47. 74 miles x 10 laps ).

Dieppe was an important target in wartime ; the town was largely destroyed by an Anglo-Dutch naval bombardment in 1694.

French soldiers from the region, captured in the fighting of 1940, were returned to the area after the Dieppe Raid as repayment by the German occupation authorities, who felt that the conduct of the French civilians in Dieppe had been correct and had not hindered the defence of the port during the battle.

Dieppe was liberated on September 1, 1944, by soldiers from the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division.

At the Square du Canada, near the castle in a park at the western end of the Esplanade, there is a monument erected by the town commemorating the long relationship between Dieppe and Canada.

The events recorded begin with the early 16th century, and culminate with the Dieppe Raid and the liberation of Dieppe by Canadians on September 1, 1944.

* Transmanche Ferries, who connect Dieppe and Newhaven ( this was previously done by Hoverspeed until 2004 ).

The first European settlement, however, was made by a French trading expedition under Jacques Riffault, of Dieppe, in 1594, who lost two of his three vessels in the vicinity of São Luís Island, and left a part of his men on that island when he returned home.

For example, on 3 September 1944, the personnel of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division marched six abreast to the music of massed regimental pipe and drum bands through the streets of Dieppe, France to commemorate the liberation of the city from German occupation, as well as commemorate the loss of over 900 soldiers from that formation during the Dieppe Raid two years earlier.

This was true of the Le Mans circuit of the 1906 Grand Prix, as well as the Targa Florio ( run on of Sicilian roads ), the German Kaiserpreis circuit in the Taunus mountains, and the French circuit at Dieppe ( a mere ), used for the 1907 Grand Prix.

In 1941 they were involved in successful raids on the Lofoten Islands and Vaagso, in Norway, before taking part in the costly Dieppe raid in August 1942, where the unit was tasked with knocking out a German coastal artillery battery on the eastern flank of the main landings, although due to a chance encounter in the Channel with a German convoy, a large majority of the unit failed to make it ashore.

Originally conceived in April 1942, " Operation Rutter " was to conduct a major division-sized raid on a German held port of Dieppe on the French channel coast and to hold it for the duration of at least two tides.

*" Dieppe ", the battle honour awarded to forces participating in the Dieppe Raid, a World War II Allied attack on German forces in the French town

In 1940, a four year old David was stranded with his nanny in Dieppe and was rescued from the invading German army by his mother's brother-in-law Eduardo Propper de Callejón.

Germany | German soldiers inspect a Dingo of the Canadian Army abandoned during the August 1942 Dieppe Raid.

A member of the RAF 332 Squadron stationed at North Weald airfield, Bergsland's Spitfire VB AB269 AH: D was shot down by a German FW-190 during the Dieppe Raid on 19 August 1942.