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Country
  
France

Department
  
Manche

Intercommunality
  
Cœur du Cotentin

Area
  
32.66 km²

Arrondissement
  
Cherbourg-Octeville

Region
  
Normandy

Canton
  
Bricquebec

Population (2009)
  
4,252

Local time
  
Friday 10:45 AM

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Weather
  
10°C, Wind SE at 21 km/h, 90% Humidity

Bricquebec is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Bricquebec-en-Cotentin.

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Map of 50260 Bricquebec, France

History

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 Viking colonisation of 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.

International relations

Bricquebec is twinned with:

  • New Alresford, United Kingdom
  • Lachendorf, Germany
  • Sremski Karlovci, Serbia

    • Population

    Inhabitants are referred to as Bricquebétais.

    Sights

  • Château (XIIe), with polygonal ramparts, towers and turret (historical monument class).
  • Château des Galleries (XVIe/XVIIe)
  • Abbaye Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (Cistercian) (XIXe)
  • Château Saint-Blaise (XVIIe/XIXe)

    • Events

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

    • Personalities

  • 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
  • William Bertram Baron of Briquebec, 1012, father of Hugue (named de Roussel) who was appointed Marshal of England by King William I (Duke of Normandy)

    • References

    Bricquebec Wikipedia
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