a seaport town of France, in Normandy, with a harbour and Augustine abbey. It is remarkable for the sea-fight between the English and French fleets in 1692, when the latter were beat, and upwards of twenty of their men of war burnt near Cape la Hogue. The British landed here in August 1758, and took the town, with the ships in the basin, demolished the fortifications, and ruined the other works which had been long carried on for enlarging the harbour. The work was resumed in 1783, upon the plan of sinking large conical masses of stone in the sea, to break the force of the waves. They were, however, thrown down, and the work was abandoned, about 1808. Since that an artificial harbour, capable of holding 50 sail of the line, has been excavated out of the solid ground. E. Long. 1. 38. N. Lat. 49. 38.