Bayeux

And the engineered dumps, and this is how the British army works, is there are these vast dumps, and they go all the way back the line of advance from Normandy, all the way back.

They go as far back as Bayeux and Caen, by way of Vermeule, near Lille, Venon, where Bailey bridges have been used to span the Seine and been broken down and then put into storage.

So that's part of it.

The whole point of the Bailey bridge as well is it's reusable.

Because of an extremely old piece of art that went on display at the British Museum in September of 2026.

It's called the Bayeux Tapestry.

We're having a big old tapestry bonanza over here.

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As far as we know, it was sewed in Canterbury, England, almost a thousand years ago.

It's actually technically an embroidery.

And for centuries, it has been in Bayeux, in what is now France.

So this is a homecoming.

There's an elephant with two riders mounted side by side on top.

You do sometimes get elephants as rooks in chess sets, don't you? And there's a knight with a particularly barrel-chested horse, which is similar to some of the ones you'll see in the Bayeux tapestry.

which we are obliged to point out is an embroidery and is not from Bayeux.

But never mind.

The people in this set are all in the Norman style.

So again, there's a Bayeux connection.

And not only that, but people may or may not be aware that the Bayeux tapestry is currently on display in London's British Museum on loan from the French government.

And I read that part of the condition of the loan was was a reciprocal loan of some items from the Sutton Hoo hoard, a piece of Celtic art called the Battersea Shield, and some of the Lewis chessmen.

Solo las excepcionales abadías de los hombres y de las damas, fundadas en el siglo XI por Guillermo el Conquistador, fueron respetadas y dieron refugio a miles de personas.

Más suerte tuvo la hermosa Bayeux, que salió casi indemne y con ella su impresionante tapiz de lino.

Coetáneo de las abadías, de setenta metros de largo, es un insólito cómic lineal que narra la invasión de Inglaterra por el duque normando en 1066.

Por reformas en el museo hasta octubre del 2017-- del 2027, el tapiz se exhibirá en el Museo Británico de Londres durante ese periodo.

Hay que pasear por Las Planchés, paseo de madera tropical junto a su gran playa al que se asoman las casetas art déco de los baños pom-- de los Baños Pompeyanos, decoradas con mosaicos y con los nombres de cineastas y estrellas de Hollywood invitados a su festival de cine americano en septiembre.

Y en verano, ver florecer sus típicas sombrillas de cinco colores o las carreras de caballo en su pintoresco hipódromo.

Y en esta página aparecen fotografías, la primera de Bayeux, la catedral gótica que fue consagrada en 1077 por Guillermo el Conquistador.

Y en esta fotografía se alcanzan a ver arcos y columnas desde la parte de atrás de la iglesia y se alcanza a ver la parte de enfrente, algunas sillas para los feligreses, incluso algunos feligreses caminando por el pasillo de esta fotografía También aparece un bordado que contiene la siguiente historia: la historia en un bordado.

Some modern historians suspect the old man had backed Richard during the rebellion and was now paying for it.

The new duke also drove his cousin Hugh, the bishop of Bayeux, out of Normandy and helped himself to lands belonging to the Abbey of Fécamp.

Eventually he reversed course, recalled the archbishop, and restored what he'd taken.

The dead duke's family allegedly didn't fare well, and William of Jumièges says flatly that little Nicholas was cut out of his earthly inheritance and raised as a monk.

Okay.

So early on in William Rufus's reign, then we talked about the fact that Robert plans to invade England, egged on by their uncle Odo, the Bishop of Bayeux.

And during this invasion, Henry is at Robert's court in Normandy and Robert kind of leaves him there.

And no one's quite sure.

that were previously loyal to him.

And he gains control there.

He moves east towards Bayeux, which is where his men are being held hostage.

The city refuses to let him in, so he lays siege to it, eventually breaks the city and burns the whole place to the ground.