Forges-les-Eaux, Normandy, France - Station Thermale Hall de Casino - RP, c1950s

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• Picture / Image:  Forges-les-Eaux (Seine-Maritime) [Normandy] - Sttaion Thermale - Le Hall du Casino
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Forges-les-Eaux is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2016, the former commune of Le Fossé was merged into Forges-les-Eaux.^[1]

A farming and spa town, with considerable light industry, situated by the banks of the rivers Andelle and Epte, in the Pays de Bray, some 34 miles (55 km) southeast of Dieppe, at the junction of the D921, the D1314 and the D929 roads.

Known as "De Forgis" in 1186, the first part of the name, Forges, is derived from the fact that it was an important centre for the mining and manufacturing of iron in Roman times. The second part of its name comes from the therapeutic use of the thermal waters from the sixteenth century onwards.
A seigneur from Forges took part in the Battle of Hastings and another took part in the First Crusade.
During the Hundred Years War, a certain Philippe de Forges was killed in 1356 at the Battle of Poitiers. Years later, but in the same conflict, the English besieged the castle and took the town, in 1418.
Blanche d'Evreux, widow of Philippe VI of France, came here to take the waters in the fourteenth century, but it was the Chevalier de Varenne who really began the vogue in 1573. The spabecame famous after the stay from 21 June to 13 July 1632 of Louis XIII, Anne of Austria and Cardinal Richelieu. Because of the royal visit, the parks, gardens and many water sources were developed, including three lakes that still exist today. Subsequently, many famous figures from French history have taken the waters.
A large pottery factory was active from 1797 to the end of the nineteenth century.
The casino was first built in the nineteenth century but destroyed by fire in 1896. It was rebuilt and reopened in 1902.

1906 saw the first (in France) annual butter conventions.

The railway station was opened in the nineteenth century and runs a TER service to Gisors and Dieppe.

Forges-les-Eaux est une commune française située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime en région Normandie, célèbre pour son casino.

La législation sur les maisons de jeux a longtemps empêché qu'elles soient trop près de Paris (d'où Deauville) avec cependant une tolérance pour les stations thermales. Le casino de Forges-les-Eaux est donc celui où l'on joue à la roulette le plus proche de Paris à part Enghien-les-Bains.

C'est aussi l'unique station thermale de toute l'ancienne région de Haute-Normandie.