Veules-les-Roses

Veules-les-Roses

Veules-les-Roses
Administration
Country France
Region Upper Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Dieppe
Canton Saint-Valery-en-Caux
Intercommunality Côte d'Albâtre
Mayor Jean-Claude Claire
(2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation 0–79 m (0–259 ft)
(avg. 12 m/39 ft)
Land area1 5.19 km2 (2.00 sq mi)
Population2 601  (2006)
 - Density 116 /km2 (300 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 76735/ 76980
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.

Veules-les-Roses is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

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Geography

A tourism and farming village situated on the coast of the English Channel in the Pays de Caux, some 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Dieppe at the junction of the D68, D926 and the D142.
The river Veules, which flows through the commune, is the shortest sea-bound river of France at 1.194 kilometres (0.742 mi). Its water is used to create ponds for growing watercress whence it finds its way to the sea through a gap in the high chalk cliffs, which overlook a sand and pebble beach.

Population

Historical population of Veules-les-Roses
Year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006
Population 688 691 629 686 753 679 586
From the year 1962 on: population without double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

People

Many artists have come here to paint, such as Anaïs Aubert, Étienne Mélingue, Henri Harpignies,Paul Meurice, and Samuel Peploe and John Duncan Fergusson of the Scottish Colourists school. Writers include Leroux and Eugène Pierron, Alexandre Dumas fils, Lockroy, José-Maria de Heredia, Henri Rochefort, Alexis Bouvier, Jules Michelet and Victor Hugo, poets Jean Richepin and François Coppée, dramatists Jules Claretie, Henri Lavedan and Émile Bergerat and the composer Alexandre Georges. Politicians such as Henri Maret, Alexandre Millerand, René Viviani, Louis Malvy, Albert Clemenceau and Pierre Taittinger came here for the sea air. Victor Boucher, Georges Chamarat, Saint-Granier, the writer Maurice Privat, Dominique Bonnaud as well as sports personalities Suzanne Lenglen and Lucien Gaudin.

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