Harcourt (pronunciation: AHR-koor) is a commune and a canton of the Euredépartement, in the Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) région, in France.
Population: 921
Canton: Brionne
Sites of interest
Château d'Harcourt - a medieval-built château and has the oldest arboretum in France [1] (http://www.normandieweb.org/27/brionne/harcourt/chateauharc.html) (in French)
External link
Image of the gallery (http://ric.jalix.org/Galleries/?display=Campagne%@Fp6080227.jpg) (in French)
HARCOURT, a village in Normandy, now a commune in the department of Eure, arrondissement of Bernay and canton of Brionne, which gives its name to a noble family distinguished in French history, a branch of which was early established in England.
Godefroi d'Harcourt, seigneur of Saint Sauveur le Vicomte, surnamed "Le boiteux" (the lame), was a marshal in the English army and was killed near Coutances in 1356.
The fief of Harcourt was raised to the rank of a countship by Philip of Valois, in favour of Jean IV., who was killed at the battle of Crecy (1346).
He was the second son of the Rev. Canon William Vernon Harcourt, of Nuneham Park, Oxford, himself the fourth son and eventually heir of Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York.
He was recognized as one of the ablest and most effective leaders of the Liberal party; and when, after a brief interval in 1885, Gladstone returned to office in 1886, Harcourt was made Chancellor of the Exchequer, an office which he again filled from 1892 to 1895.
As Harcourt himself was a second son, and thus unlikely to ever have to pay such duties himself (though this proved to not be the case), it was often quipped that this introduction was a "second son's revenge".
Feeds |
Contact