Editing Normandy (section)

===18th century to present===
Although agriculture remained important, industries such as weaving, metallurgy, sugar refining, ceramics, and shipbuilding were introduced and developed.

In the 1780s, the economic crisis and the crisis of the ''[[Ancien Régime]]'' struck Normandy as well as other parts of the nation, leading to the [[French Revolution]]. Bad harvests, technical progress and the effects of the [[Eden Agreement]] signed in 1786 affected employment and the economy of the province. Normans laboured under a heavy fiscal burden.

In 1790, the five departments of Normandy replaced the former province.

On 13 July 1793, the Norman [[Charlotte Corday]] assassinated [[Jean-Paul Marat]].

The Normans reacted little to the many political upheavals which characterized the 19th century. Overall, they warily accepted the changes of régime ([[First French Empire]], [[Bourbon Restoration in France|Bourbon Restoration]], [[July Monarchy]], [[French Second Republic]], [[Second French Empire]], [[French Third Republic]]).

Following the [[French Revolutionary Wars]] and the [[Napoleonic Wars]] (1792–1815), there was an economic revival that included the mechanization of textile manufacturing and the introduction of the first trains.

Also, with seaside tourism in the 19th century came the advent of the first beach resorts.

[[File:NormandySupply edit.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|right|[[Omaha Beach]] during the Allied invasion of Normandy, mid-June 1944]]
During the Second World War, following the [[Second Armistice at Compiègne|armistice of 22 June 1940]], continental Normandy was part of the [[Military Administration in France (Nazi Germany)|German occupied zone of France]]. The Channel Islands were [[German occupation of the Channel Islands|occupied by German forces]] between 30 June 1940 and 9 May 1945. The town of [[Dieppe]] was the site of the unsuccessful [[Dieppe Raid]] by [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] forces.

The Allies coordinated a massive build-up of troops and supplies to support a large-scale invasion of Normandy in the [[D-Day landings]] on 6 June 1944 under the code name [[Operation Overlord]]. German forces dug into fortified emplacements above the beaches. [[Caen]], [[Cherbourg]], [[Carentan]], [[Falaise, Calvados|Falaise]] and other Norman towns endured many casualties in the [[Invasion of Normandy|Battle of Normandy]], which continued until the closing of the so-called [[Falaise pocket|Falaise gap]] between [[Chambois, Orne|Chambois]] and [[Mont Ormel]]. The liberation of [[Le Havre]] followed. This was a significant turning point in the war in western Europe and led to the restoration of the French Republic.

The remainder of Normandy was liberated by Allied forces only on 9 May 1945 at the end of the war, when the [[Liberation of the German-occupied Channel Islands|Channel Island occupation]] effectively ended.

Despite the renunciation of the Duke of Normandy title by [[Henry III of England]] in the 1259 [[Treaty of Paris (1259)|Treaty of Paris]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dhi.ac.uk/normans/history.html |title=The historical background and the 'Lands of the Normans' |website=The Digital Humanities Institute |publisher=University of Sheffield}}</ref> and the extinction of the duchy itself in modern-day, republican France, in the [[Channel Islands]] the [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|monarch of the United Kingdom]] (whether a king or queen) is regardless still sometimes informally referred to by the title "Duke of Normandy".