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Location within Upper Normandy region
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| Country | France |
| Region | Upper Normandy |
| Department | Eure |
| Arrondissement | Évreux |
| Canton | Pacy-sur-Eure |
| Intercommunality | Portes de l'Eure |
| Mayor | Lucien Tesquet (2008–2014) |
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| Elevation | 45–133 m (148–436 ft) (avg. 50 m/160 ft) |
| Land area1 | 8.66 km2 (3.34 sq mi) |
| Population2 | 303 (2008) |
| - Density | 35 /km2 (91 /sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 27400/ 27640 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Merey is a commune in the Eure department in Haute-Normandie in northern France.
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As Madrie (Pagus Madriensis, later pays de Merey) it was a pagus in the north of Gaul lying between the Seine river and the rivers Eure and Iton. At the beginning of the fifth century, when the Notitia provinciarum was compiled, it was a Roman administrative division or pagus of Provincia Lugdunensis Secunda.
In the ninth-century Carolingian Empire. In 822, Pepin, king of Aquitaine married Ingeltrude (also called Engelberga, Hringard, or Ringart), daughter of Theodobert, count of Madrie (c. 800-after 876), who was a son of Nibelung (Nivelan) of the royal house of the Burgundians.
It became part of Normandy in the 10th century (EB 1911) and is now in the region called Haute-Normandie.
| Year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 |
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| Population | 98 | 127 | 138 | 192 | 185 | 260 | 303 |
In 1694 Francois Quesnay was born at Merey.