Ba·yeux 
(bī-y, bā-, bä-yœ)
(bī-y, bā-, bä-yœ) A town of northwest France northwest of Caen near the English Channel. The famed Bayeux tapestry, housed in a museum here, depicts incidents in the Norman Conquest (1066).
Bayeuxdetail of the 11th-century embroidered cloth depicting Norman soldiers setting fire to a house