On October 7, 1957, the workers of the Chantiers de l'Atlantique laid the first plates of the ship that would become the liner France. A few years later, at the beginning of 1962, this new sea giant was put into service by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. It will be the last great French transatlantic…
Its construction punctuated the daily life of the city from 1957 to 1961, when it left for its home port, Le Havre. New materials, construction methods, new forms… The innovations of the liner France surprise every day the inhabitants yet accustomed to the modernity of the post-war period.