Falaise is a town (population 9,000) on the Ante River in the [wiki=0309a6c666a7a803fdb9db95de71cf01]French[/wiki] region of [wiki=3b5ab006c1ff9b03d8b01a0eb3395056]Lower Normandy[/wiki], famous as the birthplace of William the Conquerer and the scene of the fierce fighting of August 1944 associated with the Allied "breakout" from the "Falaise pocket" that built up after the D-Day landings, to drive towards Paris during the Western campaign against the German occupation.