Many. Some are: Cherbourg, Le Havre, Calais, Boulogne, St Malo.
English Channel.
Dunkirk, June 1940
The English channel is called 'la Manche' in French.
You are probably thinking about Dunkirk which is a French port on the English Channel (la Manche) where 338,000 mostly British (but some French) troops were evacuated in June 1940 from the advancing German army.
Paris is 190 km away from Le Havre, a port on the English channel.
The english channel is called 'la Manche' in French.
English Channel
Its in Northeastern France directly across the English Channel from Dover. It is the closest French port from England. It is where the Nazis thought the Allied Armies would land-not Normandy!
The English Channel. (Le Manche in French)
The English Channel. The French call it La Manche (the sleeve)
La Manche means "the sleeve" in French. It is called that because it looks similar to a sleeve, Wide in one side (between the cities of Brest, France and Plymouth, UK) and narrow at the opposite side ( between Calais, France and Dover, UK).
Well, we in England have always known it as the English Channel, while the French know it as La Manche (The Sleeve). See the link below.