The "Société Normande de Peinture Moderne" was founded in 1909 by Pierre Dumont, Robert Antoine Pinchon, Yvonne Barbier and Eugène Tirvert.
Maurice Denis, eden od voditeljev in teoretikov gibanja "Les Nabis" (simbolizem) v 1890-tih, je bil rojen v Granville, v departmaju Manche.