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Cherbourg, umbrellas, this is a kind of a cliché but I assume it :) Here is the sign of an umbrellas shop, of "real Cherbourg's umbrellas" :
It was born in Cherbourg at the stem of the Cotentin, the native tang surrounded by the sea which sometimes rocks it, sometimes treats it roughly. It inherited a strong character.

You also have to know that umbrellas are wind-tunnel tested by an Aerotechnical Institute, that 6 of them were used as parascending parachutes, and that with 7 umbrellas, Serge Negri, ice-surfing worldchampion has gone 15 km at 40 km/h on the Quebec great frozen lake without any damage !!!

www.parapluiedecherbourg.com

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