A port on the English Channel, famous for its scallops, and with
a regular ferry service from the Gare Maritime to Newhaven in
England, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled beach, a 15th-century
castle and the churches of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Remi. The
inhabitants of the town of Dieppe are called Dieppois (m) and
Dieppoise (f) in French. First recorded as a small fishing
settlement in 1030, Dieppe was an important prize fought over
during the Hundred Years' War. Dieppe housed the most advanced
French school of cartography in the 16th century. Two of
France's best navigators, Michael le Vasseur and his brother
Thomas le Vasseur, lived in Dieppe when they were recruited to
join the expedition of René Goulaine de Laudonnière which
departed Le Havre for Florida on April 20, 1564. The expedition
resulted in the construction of Fort Caroline, the first French
colony in the New World. Dieppe was the premier port of the
kingdom in the 17th century. On July 23, 1632, 300 colonists
heading to New France departed from D