Caen
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Caen or Cæn is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Basse-Normandie region. The city proper has 113,249 inhabitants (as of 2006), while its urban area has 420,000, making Caen the largest city in Lower Normandy. It is also the second largest municipality in all of Normandy after Le Havre and the third largest city proper in Normandy, after Rouen and Le Havre. The metropolitan area of Caen, in turn, is the second largest in Normandy after that of Rouen, the 21st largest in France.
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Notable Caennais
Caen was the birthplace of:
- Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (c. 1090–1147), illegitimate son of Henry I of England;
- Jean Bertaut (1552–1611), poet;
- François Le Métel de Boisrobert (1592–1662), poet;
- François de Malherbe (1555–1628), poet, critic and translator (Malherbe's birthplace has survived);
- Tanneguy Le Fèvre (1615–1672), classical scholar;
- Jean Renaud de Segrais (1624–1701), poet and novelist;
- Pierre Daniel Huet (1630–1721), churchman and scholar;
- René Auguste Constantin de Renneville (1650–1723), writer;
- Pierre Varignon (1654–1722), mathematician;
- Charlotte Corday (d. 1793), assassin of Marat;
- François Henri Turpin (1709–1799), man of literature;
- Jacques Clinchamps de Malfilâtre (1732-1767), poet;
- Jean de Crèvecoeur (1735–1813), French-American writer;
- Jean-Jacques Boisard (1744–1833), writer who specialized in fables;
- Gervais Delarue (1751–1835), historian;
- Louis Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant (1764–1853), politician;
- Daniel Auber (1782–1871), composer;
- Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps (1794–1867), French naturalist and palaeontologist;
- Étienne Mélingue (1808–1875), actor and sculptor;
- Jules Danbé (1840–1905) opera conductor;
- André Danjon (1890–1967), astronomer;
- Marie-Pierre Koenig (1898–1970), general who commanded a Free French Brigade at the Battle of Bir Hakeim in 1942, Maréchal de France.
- Joël Thomas (1987– ), professional football player;
- Elliot Grandin (1987– ), professional football player.
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See also
- "A Caen les vacances" is a sketch by Raymond Devos
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