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La Bouille

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Country  France
Department  Seine-Maritime
Population (2014)  764
Local time  Friday 1:13 AM
Region  Normandy
Canton  Grand-Couronne
Area  127 ha
Arrondissement  Rouen
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Intercommunality  Métropole Rouen Normandie
Weather  8°C, Wind S at 3 km/h, 94% Humidity

La Bouille is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France.

Contents

Map of La Bouille, 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 D 64, D 132 and the D 675 roads. A ferry service crosses the river to Sahurs.

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.
  • The church of Sainte-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

    • References

    La Bouille Wikipedia
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