Longueville

Longueville-sur-Scie lies in the valley of the Scie south of Dieppe, beneath a castle raised by the Norman Giffard family. Its stronghold overlooked the river and the road through the Caux countryside. During the Hundred Years' War the lordship was granted to Bertrand du Guesclin; in the following century it came to Jean de Dunois, the Bastard of Orléans, a prominent commander against the English. The title later passed to his descendants, becoming a duchy under Louis XII and carrying the name of this small Norman town into the higher ranks of French nobility.