Basse Normandie / Normandy

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French destinies Basse Normandie / Normandy

Who was William the Conqueror?

Jérôme Prod'homme

Jérôme Prod'homme

Only two of them succeeded in conquering England. William of Normandy is the most famous. Born a bastard, threatened by the Norman lords to the point of having to flee in the night, no one imagined such a glorious destiny for this boy born in Falaise in the heart of Normandy and who succeeded in conquering England. He is the ancestor of King Charles III of Great Britain...