La Bouille
| La Bouille | |
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Location within Upper Normandy region  La Bouille | |
| Coordinates: 49°21′04″N 0°55′55″E / 49.351°N 0.932°ECoordinates: 49°21′04″N 0°55′55″E / 49.351°N 0.932°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Seine-Maritime |
| Arrondissement | Rouen |
| Canton | Grand-Couronne |
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| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Joel Temperton |
| Area1 | 1.27 km2 (0.49 sq mi) |
| Population (2006)2 | 818 |
| • Density | 640/km2 (1,700/sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 76131 / 76530 |
| Elevation |
2–133 m (6.6–436.4 ft) (avg. 5 m or 16 ft) |
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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. | |
La Bouille is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.
Geography
A small village (in area) surrounded by woodland situated south of a meander of the river Seine, some 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Rouen, at the junction of the D64, D132 and the D675 roads. A ferry service crosses the river to Sahurs.
Population
| Year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
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| Population | 561 | 611 | 661 | 550 | 862 | 791 | 818 |
| From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once. | |||||||
Notable people
- Writer Hector Malot was born here in 1830.
- French actor Albert Lambert.
- La Bouille has been the subject of landscapes by Turner, Gauguin, Albert Lebourg, Robert Antoine Pinchon and Henri Vignet.
Places of interest
Looking south to La Bouille
The ferry dock at La Bouille
- The church of St. Madeleine, dating from the sixteenth century.
- A sixteenth century salt warehouse.
- Several lesser buildings dating from the thirteenth century.
- The Château Albert Lambert.
- The seventeenth-century château de l'Ermitage
See also
References
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to La Bouille. |
- La Bouille on the Quid website (French)
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