Bricquebec

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Coordinates: 49°28′00″N 1°37′00″W / 49.46667, -1.63333

Administration
Commune of Bricquebec
Location

Country	France
Region	Basse-Normandie
Department	Manche
Arrondissement	Cherbourg-Octeville
Canton	Bricquebec
Intercommunality	yes
Mayor	Henri-Louis VEDIE (UMP) (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	?–? (avg. ?m)
Land area^¹	32.66 km²
Population^² (1999)	4,442
- Density	136.0/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	50082/ 50260
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Bricquebec, a commune of the département of Manche, in the Basse-Normandie région, France. Inhabitants are referred to as Bricquebétais.

As revealed by the etymology of its name, the origin of Bricquebec (from the Scandinavian bekkr, a course of water; in turn from brekka, slope) is connected to the epic of Viking invaders, very solidly implanted in the Cotentin peninsula at the beginning of the 10th century. Tradition attributes the foundation of the château to the Norman, Anslech. The dukes of Normandy made Bricquebec one of their strongholds.

1 Monuments
2 Events
- 2.1 Births
3 Sources
4 See also

[edit] Monuments

Château (XII^e), with polygonal ramparts, towers and turret (historical monument class).
Château des Galleries (XVI^e/XVII^e)
Abbaye Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (Cistercian) (XIX^e)
Château Saint-Blaise (XVII^e/XIX^e)

[edit] Events

Market every Monday morning
La Sainte Anne traditional fair on the last weekend in July

[edit] Births

Jean Le Marois (1776-1836), a general under Napoléon, député of la Manche.
Armand Le Véel (1821-1905), statue sculptor
Aristide Frémine (1837-1897), writer
Roger Lemerre, soccer player, born in 1941, selected for national team of France, 1998-2002