(1666–1735), 1st Baron Lansdowne, English poet, playwright and politician, lived in Granville Robert Carteret, 3rd Earl Granville (1721–1776), 3rd Earl Granville, lived in Granville Louis Jacob (1768–1854), politician and admiral, lived in Granville Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), writer, stayed there in 1829. He evoked the headquarters in Granville in Le Réquisitionnaire in 1831 (1837–1927), shipowner, politician, mayor of Granville from 1882 to 1888, lived in Granville (1859–1934), writer and poet, lived in Granville Maurice Orange (1867–1916), painter, lived in Granville (1883–1945), poet, stayed in Granville during his youth Maurice Marland (1888–1944), chief of the Resistance of Granville during World War II, a professor in the same town (1901–1987), writer and painter, lived at Chausey (1914–2009), first president of the Court of Auditors in 1978–1982, was mayor Bertrand Poirot-Delpech (1929–2006), journalist, writer and academician, lived at Chausey Stendhal, Jules Michelet, Victor Hugo, Adolphe Willette and Gustave Goublier also all stayed in Granville. Heraldry The coat of arms of Granville has changed several times during its history. The first, granted by Charles VIII in 1487 was thus: Azure a dextrochère Or, issuant from a cloud of the same, which holds a sword argent mounted Or and placed between three stars of the same. The sword symbolising the patriotism of the city during the English occupation, the stars appearing on the night of 8 November 1442 when took over the city. The second coat of arms was established in 1697: Azure with dextrochère armed Or issuant from a cloud of the same and holding a sword argent, the guard and handle Or, surmounted by a Sun of the same. The Sun replaced the stars, this new coat of arms symbolised the importance of Granville in the monitoring of the coast of the Bay. In 1793, the influence of the Revolution changed the azure to gules, but the arm is no longer armed and the sword became an honorary, which gives: Gules an arm stretched argent emerging from a cloud azure, holding a sword argent of a guard Or in pale. In 1811, the First Empire offered new arms to the town, Napoleon adding distinctive towns of second-order signs, a quarter charged with a capital N and a gold star and the exterior ornament of a mural crown: Azure on a cloudy fess argent, together with three stars Or, two in chief and one in point, dextrochère armed, sable, moving from sinister side of