The Pays de Bray is a small (about 750 km²) natural region of France situated to the north-east of Rouen, straddling the French départements of the Seine-Maritime and Oise (historically divided among the Provinces of Normandy and Picardy since 911, hence divided among the official regions of Haute-Normandie and Picardie). The landscape is of bocage, a land use which arises from its clay soil; suited to the development of pasture for the raising of dairy cattle. It produces famous butters and cheeses such as Neuchâtel.
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““What are the characteristics of today’s world so that one may recognize it by them?” It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)