Destruction and reconstruction of private buildings in Vierville
Beath and descent into the sea
5 - Boulevard de Cauvigny, East sector
from the border of Saint-Laurent to villa Parmentier
Plan of the beach of Vierville, before the war, in its eastern part, from the Parmentier property to the limit of S-Laurent
(Based on a plan for the purposes of the 1944 landings)
A132 - villa Roide/Davidoff "Les Bergeronnettes"
ZA - gardener Roide
B - Roide dependence
C - "shelter, terrace, belvedere" Lebrec
D131- Auzou
E - Lebrec garage
F130- villa "Petit Pierre" (Lebrec)
G129 - Richard
HA128 - property Le Guay
HB127 - Seine property
I - Annex HB?
J126 - Mathy, built c1938
K125-? (German butcher in 1944???)
L124 - Roger, called Sainteny-Brise Caline
M123 - Parmentier
N122- Guard Parmentier/serres-Bertram?
Below is a sketch drawn up around 1945/46 by the War Damage Service
Below, for comparison, the cadastral plan of the same sector in 2006
August 10, 1944, ruins of the villas Roger (L), Parmentier (M and N)
IGN photo of August 1947, from g to d: villas M (Parmentier, destroyed), L (Roger, destroyed), and the rise of the US genius to the top of the cliff
Villa ZA, 2-slope roof, located south of the road that serves as a limit to the municipalities of Vierville and Saint-Laurent
Probably the gardener of the villa A des Roide.
Destroyed before 44 by the Germans
(details) Villa A, large villa with 3 bodies, Les Bergeronnettes, (Roide property, then Guyot-Davidoff), destroyed in 1944 by the Germans. Land sold after the war, to Mr. Jacob who had a new house built with a thatched roof.
June 30, 1943, on the left the villas are already destroyed
Villa B (Annex Roide), roof with 4 slopes, slightly set back from the boulevard
Villa D (Auzou property), roof with 4 slopes and 2 large fireplaces
Destroyed in 1944 by the Germans
Buildings "C" and "E" are not identified on postcards.
Villa F "Petit Pierre", bought around 1925 by the Lebrec family, renamed "Videlouière", destroyed by the Germans in 1944. After resembling, the Lebrec family built, around 1961, 3 identical villas, today villas Daniel Lebrec, Noëlle Auzou then William Bordeaux, Jean-Paul Lebrec then Didier Lebrec
Building E was a garage belonging to the Lebrec.
Building C was a covered shelter on the terrace, on the Lebrec land
Villa K on June 30, 43, before its demolition. It could have been an annex to the Roger villa (Brisecaline).
(details) Villa "L", "Brise Câline", built in the 1930s to the east of the Parmentier villa, by Jean ROGER, future "Sainteny" in the Resistance, head of the Alliance network.
(Easter 1939) Seen from the side window of the small Mathy house, we see the villa Brise Caline des Roger
Villa "G", Richard property, Mansart roof, destroyed in 1944 by the Germans. Jean-Claude Richard's father rebuilt a house on a half-caffold, with tennis shoes below
The "I" building under the cliff ridge??
A customs shelter??
1926
On the left the villa Roger, then the villa Clairefontaine des Parmentier
In the center, the group of HA and HB villas, on the edge of the boulevard (Serres property??)
(details) On the right, the Roger villa, in ruins in the first days after June 6, 44
The little house Mathy (Easter 1939)
June 30, 43, before its demolition, the small Mathy house, seen by an English plane
January 1938, right Villa Roger
April 1938, fields Mathy and Colin(?)
(details) Villa HA, it is located between Brise Câline (I) and the villas near St-Laurent-Les Moulins (G, F, D, B, A)
Destroyed in 1944 by the Germans.
[In manuscript on the card: "Yeyette went to trajaille for rabbits with grandmother - Georges" - bring rabbit grass, in patois-]
The HB villa, contiguous to the right of the HA villa, had to be built in the 1930s, after the HA villa (June 30, 43, before the demolition by the Germans)
(details) View of St-Laurent towards Vierville. In the foreground, a terrace-belvedere "C" of the Lebrec property, it remains today.
In the center the villa HA (Colin? Or Serres?)
The terrace-belvedere "C" after the war
(Lebrec property)
(Easter 1939) On the right the HA and HB villas (Serres?, Colin?)
On the left, in the center, the small house Mathy
(Easter 1939) On the left the Serres villas, on the right the small house Mathy
Some views of the villas of the border of Saint Laurent - Vierville
The easternmost are part of the Moulins agglomeration in St-Laurent, but are on the territory of Vierville
The mills before the war, the plan is not very accurate for the attributions of the names of villas and the limit of the municipalities
From g to d:
Villa G (Richard) attic, N°129 list of damages
Villa F (Lebrec),
Villa D (with 4 slopes) villa "Gabrielle", Marcel Auzou),
Villa B (with 4 slopes, slightly set back from the bld, dependence of A),
Villa A Les Bergeronnettes (Roide)
Further to the right the Tamaris (on St-Laurent) and a small narrow villa.
We see the path to the south that delimits the 2 municipalities, the limit follows the turn of the path that returns to the east and passes in front of the ZA villa (in Roide) which could also be on Vierville.
(details) from g to d: villas G,F,D,B,A, (commune limit of StLaurent), and on Saint-Laurent: Les Tamaris (attic),? Small narrow villa, and Ste Cécile (with 2 rear skylight windows).
(details) The imposing villa A"Les Bergeronnettes", the last villa in Vierville. On the left the villas B(Roide) and D(Marcel Auzou) with a roof of 4 slopes, one of which is set back from the road
details Sketch made around 1945 by the War Damage Services
details on the left "Sainte Cécile", in the center "Les Tamaris" (last house of St-Laurent, the following on the right are on Vierville), on the right the villa A "Les Bergeronnettes".
Villas A, D, F
detail the villa A "Les Bergeronnettes"
N°132 on map Damages 1945
Villas Les Bergeronnettes (last villa on Vierville, Albert ROIDE, Parisian industrialist)-
details On June 30, 43, the group of houses HA(Le Guay), HB(Seine), I,
J (Mathy)
And K (who???), by the sea
On June 30, 43-The Germans began demolishing the seaside villas. The ZA seems to be in ruins. There are still villas A (Bergeronnettes) and B (annex to the previous one).
From g to d: villas L Roger (Sainteny),
M (Parmentier), (Mathy), etc.
The location of the future villa F (Lebrec?) Is empty between villas A and G.
We only see Ste Cécile, the Tamaris, the villa A (Les Bergeronnettes in a still simple form) and the attic villa G. Only the latter 2 are on Vierville
details from g to d:(on St-Laurent) "Sainte Cécile" and "Les Tamaris".
(Then on Vierville): villa A "Les Bergeronnettes" (Roide), villa B with a roof of 4 slopes (Roide), villa F "Petit Pierre" not yet enlarged (Lebrec), and villa G attic (Richard)
details On the right, the villa F (Lebrec) "Petit Pierre", enlarged compared to the previous view
(details) villa F (Lebrec) "Petit Pierre" beak roof,
On the right, villa G (Richard?) Mansard.
(details) from g to d: villa Brise Câline, villa Parmentier, villa Mathy, villa with pointed roof, and in the foreground the villa H which is located between Brise Câline and the villas des Moulins
(details) In the center right, the villa M (Parmentier), on the left the villa L "Brise Câline" (Roger, called Sainteny), more recent (30s?)
(details) villa L (Brise Caline, Roger-Sainteny)
Panoramic 2000
Panoramic 2007
Various post-war views
The new dike built to protect the entire beach, east of Villa Hardelay
The whole of Cauvigny Boulevard
On the left the 3 reconstructed villas (Lebrec, Auzou, Marchal)
The beach, around 1955?
To 2007
Les Moulins and the entire beach of Vierville
Les Moulins in St-Laurent, very close to the border of Vierville
April 2007
Photographic history of this beach area since 1939
Above, the photos taken on June 30, 1943 by Allied Aviation
The same sector in December 1943
Coastal profile, towards the beginning of 1944
March 24, 1944
May 19, 1944
The "Brise Caline" villa of the Roger family (called Sainteny)
The sector of the future house Jean-Claude and Sophie Richard.
The beach's protective ears are still visible today
The Moulins district in St-Laurent and the first villas of Vierville, destroyed
Views taken on May 18, 1944 by an American aircraft RF38 "Lightning" of photographic recognition
June 6, 1944, 8:00 a.m., the first American tanks are visible in front of Les Moulins.
June 6, 1944, 12:15 p.m., the entire sector, from the Parmentier property to the Moulins
Below, detail showing the ruins of the villas on the border of St. Lawrence, American tanks and US troops nailed to the bank of pebbles that house them. The sea is high. We can distinguish (quite poorly) the wreck of the LCI 92 to the left of the photo, on the edge of the beach. At this time the German defenses of the Mills (WN66 and 68) are active and will remain so until their evacuation on the night of June 6 to 7. We can clearly see the anti-tank ditch.
June 6, 1944, 2:00 p.m., the sea begins to descend again, we see the obstacles on the beach
Photo of August 10, 1944, ruins of the villas Roger (L), Parmentier (M and N)
On the LCT beach and on the Roger field (future Raymond Marchal's field), 2 American barrage balloons
Photo IGN of August 28, 1947, from g to d: villas M (Parmentier, destroyed), L (Roger, destroyed), and the US engineering road to the top of the cliff. It was used for the return of American amphibious trucks
IGN, April 1955. No reconstruction has yet begun
IGN, July 1972. Many villas are being rebuilt
IGN, September 1980
