| St.James lies on high ground between the Beuvron and the Dierge valleys on the border of Normandy and Brittany. William the Conqueror founded the settlement in 1067 making it one of western Normandy's oldest cities. A church with two steeples and a tower, a priory, 15th C. ramparts and old streets recall its historic past.
St.James hosts one of only two American cemeteries in Normandy. (The other is near Omaha Beach.) It contains 4,400 graves and a memorial to the aircrew lost over France. The nearby village of Montjoie St.Martin has a viewpoint over the Bay of Mont St.Michel in a christian churchyard which contains the graves of seven moslem soldiers of the LeClerc Division who died in the area during 1944. |
