Caen
While Normandy celebrates the 80th anniversary of D-Day this summer, the region is already looking towards 2027. This Friday, at the University of Caen, Hervé Morin, the president of the regional council, is due to kick off the millennium of the birth of William the Conqueror, which, in connection with England, will be the subject of numerous events on both coasts of the Channel.
Several calls for cultural, heritage, tourist and even research projects, around the epic tale of the Duke of Normandy and his wife, Queen Mathilde, will be launched.
One of them will focus on the famous Bayeux tapestry, which recounts the conquest of England by the Duke of Normandy in 1066.
“In connection with the Mobilier national and the Manufacture des Gobelins, we are going to launch an appeal international for contemporary artists, who could imagine the last scene of the Bayeux tapestry.
It could be the scene of William's coronation
at Westminster Abbey
, which does not exist...
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