Lower Normans

found: Work cat.: Mukasonga, Scholastique. Cœur tambour, 2016:p. 4 of cover (Scholastique Mukasonga was born in Rwanda and works in Normandy)

found: Wikipedia, June 16, 2017:Scholastique Mukasonga (Scholastique Mukasonga (born 1956) is a Rwandan author living in France; beginning in 1992 she worked in Caen, France as a social worker, and she currently lives in Lower Normandy) Lower Normandy (Lower Normandy (French: Basse-Normandie; Norman: Basse-Normaundie) is a former administrative region of France. On 1 January 2016, Lower and Upper Normandy merged becoming one region called Normandy) Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Calvados (Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France)

found: Scholastique Mukasonga : du Rwanda au Calvados, via jaimelecalvados.fr website, 15 mars 2013, viewed on June 16, 2017(D'origine Tutsi du Rwanda, Scholastique Mukasonga vit aujourd'hui à Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer et travaille à Caen comme assistante sociale [Of Tutsi origin from Rwanda, Scholastique Mukasonga today lives in Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer and works in Caen as a social worker]; elle s'établit en France en 1992 puis s'installe dans le Calvados, d'où est originaire la famille de son mari [she settled in France in 1992 and moved to Calvados, where her husband's family is from]; Aujourd’hui, celle qui se dit autant Normande que Rwandaise, trouve son inspiration dans sa région d’adoption et notamment à Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer où elle réside avec son mari [Today, the woman who says she is as much Norman as Rwandan, finds her inspiration in her region of adoption and especially in Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer where she resides with her husband])

found: Britannica online, June 16, 2017:Basse-Normandie (Basse-Normandie, région of France, encompassing the northwestern départements of Orne, Calvados, and Manche. It is bounded by the régions of Haute-Normandie to the northeast, Centre to the southeast, Pays de la Loire to the south, and Brittany (Bretagne) to the southwest; the capital is Caen)

found: Dugas, Jean-Yves. Dictionnaire universel des gentilés en français, 2006(Basse-Normandie. Region of France. Bas-Normand, Basse-Normande)

found: Venedey, Jacob. Excursions in Normandy, 1841, via Google books, viewed June 16, 2017:p. 36 (the Lower Normans) p. 28 (the departments of Calvados, l'Orne, and la Manche form Lower Normandy)

found: Choquette, L. Frenchmen into peasants, 1997:p. 203 (Bretons, Lower Normans, and scattered individuals from far and wide) p. 234 (Auvergnats, Limousins, Savoyards, and Lower Normans were often seasonal and temporary workers)