Université de Caen Normandie

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The University was founded in 1432 by John of Lancaster, on behalf of Henry VI, King of England, and could be considered the third English University. After Normandy returned to the kingdom of France, its foundation was confirmed by Charles VII in 1450, and it remained the only University in Normandy until 1966. For more than five centuries, the university has welcomed thousands of students and many of them played a major role in Arts and Sciences. Today, the University of Caen Basse-Normandie welcomes more than 24,000 students and more than 1,600 teachers and researchers in all fields of knowledge and research, containing 43 research units. With the technological opportunity to make digital copies of the most interesting pictures of the University’s collection, the decision was made to share them with the public through The Commons. We encourage you to browse these new additions to The Commons and share your insights, helpful tags and comments underneath the photos to help build and refine the knowledge about these historical treasures.

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2025-05-23T10:41:36.148324 image/svg+xml Matplotlib v3.10.1, https://matplotlib.org/ 2010 2017 1K

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  • Jean (Klue) Hirsch said:
    If only we could learn from these memories. I am glad you posted them. The awful reality of war must be remembered.
  • Seth Gaines said:
    It's an earthquake. Didn't you even try to translate it?
  • Université de Caen Normandie said:
    Seth you are right, these ruins are indeed related to an earthquake. We can't be sure but the picture was certainly taken after May the 8th 1914 earthquake by the Etna volcano (Sicily - Italy) Unfortunately all our caption are in French only and they are not complete. We are working on completing all these captions for the 1836 pictures of this collection. As soon as we will be finished with that, all of them will be translated to English for a better understanding. You can help ! You can help "tagging" these pictures ! You can help us translating the caption to English ! By the way Jean, you are right about the "awful reality of war" that must not be forgotten. It is indeed one of the reasons why we wished to share all this collection on this very particular and meaningful program : The Commons on Flickr. Maybe Jean you would like a have a look to albums 6 & 7. Thank you so much for your interest and help! Regards.
  • Argentiere said:
    It's the the earthquake of 8 may 1914 that destroyed the village of Linera and the hamlets of Cosentini, Mortara and Passopomo.

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  • fokkere3 said:
    Nieuport 17

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