Destruction and reconstruction of private buildings in Vierville
Descent to the sea and beach
2 - La boulevard de Cauvigny, West sector
of the current monument of the National Guard at Mount Olive (current villa Curto)
Photo from 1938
Plan of Boulevard de Cauvigny, west part (based on a plan fund drawn up by Michel Hardelay in 1946)
All these houses were demolished by the Germans in 1943
AF - Tennis (Petel)
AG - Roulland (Cauvet)
AH - "Millepertuis" Rémy (Basel)
AI - Adam - Angot
AJ-?
AK-? (The Spray) Aubin?
AL-? (La Reposerie) Dr. Verney?
AM - From Bellaigue de Bughas?
AN - "Les Flots" (Bale) or Lecourt?
AO - cabin chalet (Hausermann)
AP - Devens?
AQ - Ygouf?
AR - villa Madeleine (Hervieu-Lecoeur?)
AS-?
AU - The Welsh (café bazaar)
AT - The Welsh (beach cabins)
Here are comparative plans of 1823, 1878?, 1939, and a cadastre around 1944/46
Cadastre around 1944/46
Above sketch spread in 1945-46 by the War Damage Service
For comparison, on the same sector, the cadastre of 2006
Photo of June 30, 1943
Photo of the summer 1947
villa AG (owned by Roulland, bailiff in Trévières, family linked to the Fromond, Cauvet, Le Gros, Peace families) with gable on boulevard
Villa AH, Les Millepertuis, (property Rémy, family linked to the Basel family) roof with 4 slopes, with veranda
Villa AI, (ownership Adam and Angot) roof 2 slope, with skylight installed in second phase
Villa AJ, small house with 2 slopes roof, gaber facing the sea,
On the right La Reposerie AL
Villa AK Les Embruns which replaced AJ
She was praised every season.
Villa AL - La Reposerie, with 2-slope roof with tiles with drawn patterns, large access staircase facing the sea.
She was praised every season.
The villa AK Les Embruns is not yet built
Villa AM2, 2nd form, 2 levels
Villa AN Les Flots (family Bale?)
(details) AO - Beach cabin chalet (Hausermann)
Villa AP
Villa AQ
Villa AR "Madeleine" in June 43, with the anti-tank wall that has just been built and that bars the road between AR and AU Eden-Bellevue which is being demolished.
House AS (annexes of the Madeleine villa?) Around 1938
AT, the beach cabins Le Gallois around 1938
AU, "Eden-Bellevue", Café-bazar Le Gallois around 1938. A large room was used as a cinema and a reception room.
Postcards and various photos of the boulevard in its west part 
(details) 1 or 2 cabins by the sea
Villas AL, AM, AN, AO1
details AL, AM1, AN?, AO1
1 or 2 cabins by the sea
(details) AI, AJ, AL, AM1
AK not built
(details) AL (The Reposerie), AM1
details Villas AI, AJ, AL (The Reposerie)
Around 1900
(details) Customs officers
From g to d: Villas AL, AJ, AI, AH, AG
Around 1925, from g to d: villas AG, AI, AK
(details) AG with pinion, AH with 4 slopes, AI with 2 slopes in length and skylight, AJ not very visible, AK
AG, AH, AI, AL, then the others hidden by the cabins
Around 1938, villas AG, AH, AI, AK
AJ seems to be missing
The dike is built
details beach games
AK, AL, AM2, AN
An ANMer house by the sea in front of AN
A house on AO
These 2 houses disappear later
Further to the right 2 long shacks with awning for shops that will disappear later
We see on the cliff the AKA hut of the fisherman ("marquis de la falaise")
(details) The 1st casino is in place with the 1st bazaar Le Gallois. The Gambier house is absent. The Cusinberche villa seems absent. The AKA house of the "marquis de la falaise, a local fisherman, is indicated
(details) in the cliff, an AKA hut of a fisherman called "the Marquis of the Cliff"
details June 43, destroyed villas between AF and AQ tennis
details June 43, the villas between AJ and AU (establishment Le Gallois Eden-Bellevue)
(details) Villas A02, AP, AQ and beach cabins
details Villas AK, AL, AM2
details Charette "bayeusaine" AL (La Reposerie), AM1, AN
(details) AJ, AK, AL, AM2, AN, AO1
In the distance we see the houses of the Mills.
Closer the only villa built is V "Les Hortensias".
Even closer we see the AE des Petel villa on the right on its hill,
The Reposerie AL is under construction
1895-Construction of the boulevard to the sea
(details) The houses to the left of the boulevard are hardly recognizable. The photo is very old.
Around 1900
(details) AG with pinion, AH 4 slopes, AI with 2 slopes in length and missing skylight, AJ with pinion, AK missing, AL
1938, new dike
details AI with 2 slopes and skylight, AJ with gable, AK missing, AL La Reposerie with staircase, AM1
details Villa AN Les Flots
AG pinion in front, AH 4 slopes, AI 2 slopes in length
(details) AG, AH, AI, AK, AL, AM2, AN, AO2, AP, AQ, AR,
In the lack
(details) AG, AH, AI, AK, AL, AM2, AN, AO2, AP, AQ,
AR (villa Madeleine) and AU are missing
(details) AG, AH, AI, AK, AO2, AP, AR
AU is in place, but the dike is not built
(details) Great meeting at the villa "Les Flots" (AN)
Around 1920
Aerial view of the foot of the Vierville descent, around 1938.
From g to d, on the boulevard de Cauvigny: villas AK Les Embruns, AL La Reposerie, AM2, AN Les Flots, AO (Cabine Hausermann), AP (2 buildings), AQ (hut + long bat), AR (villa Madeleine), AS annex, AT beach cabins, AU Eden-Bellevue (Le Gallois)
(details) Villa AO,
One of the first cars in Vierville, before the 14-18 war
(details) View quite old, most of the houses on the boulevard were replaced before 1939
details On the boulevard, from d to g we recognize
AN, AP, AQ houses
(details) villa AL La Reposerie
(details)Villas AK les Embruns, AL La Reposerie, AM2, AN Les Flots
Around 1925
(details) Villas AK Les Embruns, AL La Reposerie, AM2, AN Les Flots
(details) Villa AL La Reposerie on the right
1935 On the right we see on the left, starting from the farthest, the roofs of the 5 villas
AK The Sprays, AL The Reposerie, AM2,
AN, AR Madeleine
Villas AL La Reposerie, AJ, AI, AH, AG
details Villa AL, La Reposerie, large access staircase facing the sea
AP, AQ
(details) Villa AK Les Embruns
(details) AK, Facade of the Reposerie
Panoramic 2000
Panoramic 2007
Below post-war photos
Around 1946
1975 the footbridge has just been built
1995
Around 1950
Photographic history of this beach area since 1939
Photo from 1938
Photomontage of the views of June 30, 1943
June 30, 1943
Above, a series of photos taken by the Allied reconnaissance on June 30, 1943
Coastal profiles made in early 1944
February 15, 1944, notice the anti-tank wall across the downhill road to the beach. It is still limited by Villa Madeleine. When it is demolished by the Germans, the wall will be extended to the cliff, always at an angle.
March 24, 1944, the anti-tank wall was extended
June 6, 1944, 8:00 a.m., we see 4 American tanks at the water's edge, in the center and on the right. These Sherman DD tanks (Duplex Drive, amphibians) were landed on the beach by an LCT at 6:30 a.m., at the same time as the 200 soldiers of the A/116 company who lost almost all its workforce on the beach.
IGN, August 28, 1947
IGN, April 1955, no reconstruction seems yet visible
IGN, July 1972, reconstruction is completed
IGN, September 1980
IGN, 1991
2009 (on Geoportal)