Formigny is a rural quiet little town. Its privileged position on the main roads provides easy and quick access to the sea and the urban centers ( Bayeux, Caen).
His tranquility was disturbed in the course of history by warriors facts: On April 15, 1450, King Charles VII, assisted by the Count of Clermont, the Constable of Richemont and Admiral Coëtivy, regrowth Formigny near Bayeux, an English army had just landed at Cherbourg, under the command of Thomas Kyriel in an attempt to rescue the last British places of Normandy. With the win, the Hundred Years War to an end and Normandy is attached to the kingdom of France... Centuries later, Formigny was the heart of the Allied landing in Normandy.