Villequier

Administration
Villequier



Villequier
Location within Upper Normandy region Villequier
Country	France
Region	Upper Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Caudebec-en-Caux
Intercommunality	Caux-Vallée de Seine
Mayor	Jacques Bardel
Statistics
Elevation	0–147 m (0–482 ft) (avg. 6 m/20 ft)
Land area¹	11.1 km² (4.3 sq mi)
Population²	788 (2006)
- Density	71 /km² (180 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76742/ 76490
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.

Villequier is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

1 Geography
2 Heraldry
3 Population
4 Places of interest
5 People
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Geography

A village of farming and forestry situated by the banks of the river Seine in the Pays de Caux, some 23 miles (37 km) west of Rouen near the junction of the D281 with the D81 road.

Heraldry

	The arms of Villequier are blazoned : Gules, on a cross fleury between 12 billets Or, an anchor sable.

Population

Historical population of Villequier
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	740	773	752	769	822	808	788
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

The church of St. Pierre, dating from the sixteenth century.
The church of St. Martin, dating from the twelfth century.
The fifteenth-century chateau of Ételan, with its park and a dovecote.
Medieval fortifications at La Guerche.
Three seventeenth-century manorhouses.
An eighteenth-century presbytery.
The chapel of Barre-Y-Va.
The Victor Hugo museum.
The Hugo family tombs in the cemetery.

People

Victor Hugo (1802–1895), dramatist, spent much time here with his friends and family.
Auguste Vacquerie (1819–1895), poet and journalist, was born here and is buried here.

References

INSEE

External links

Villequier on the Quid website (French)

Communes of the Seine-Maritime department