Max Armanet

In 1830, seaside bathing became fashionable and the Côte Fleurie became famous. We then forget that for a thousand years, this small territory had been part of the material and spiritual adventure that invented Normandy.

Touques and Hennequeville were key links in this powerful dialogue between Norman warriors and tonsured monks, between duke and abbot. The successful invention of Normandy, based on the monastery networks, served as a benchmark for the whole of Europe. These fascinating centuries of invention are the subject of this lecture by Max Armanet. Writer, film-maker, historian, journalist(L'Obs, Libération, La Vie, France 2, France Culture...), press agency director, pilot, colonel (rc) in the French Air Force and Space Corps and expert in historical monuments, this specialist in the digital revolution is also a Trouvillais known for his defense of the environment. His new study of the beginnings of Normandy, which he has just completed for Athéna magazine on the Touques, examines the links between power and territory.