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Country
  
France

Department
  
Calvados

Canton
  
Pont-l'Évêque

Area
  
8.07 km²

Local time
  
Thursday 9:54 PM

Region
  
Normandy

Arrondissement
  
Lisieux

Intercommunality
  
Blangy Pont-l'Évêque

Population
  
4,158 (2006)


Weather
  
8°C, Wind SE at 5 km/h, 97% Humidity

Pont-l'Évêque is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. It has given its name to a type of soft cheese (see Pont-l'Évêque cheese).

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The town was severely damaged by a 2-day battle in August 1944.

The town serves as the setting for Gustave Flaubert's story Un cœur simple and features heavily in the book "13 - Lucky For Some" which is about the history of the 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion. There are many then and now photographs as well as maps and diagrams of battles that took place in the region.

Geography

The Touques River flows through the town.

Transport

  • A13 autoroute
  • A132 autoroute
  • Route nationale 177
  • Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest

    • Personalities

    Pont-l'Évêque was the birthplace of:

  • Roger de Pont L'Evêque (c.1115-1181), Archdeacon of Canterbury, and later Archbishop of York
  • Dière de Dièreville (c.1670-?) - surgeon, botanist and writer who wrote about his voyage (1699-1700) to Acadia.
  • Jacques Guillaume Thouret (1746–1794), revolutionary, lawyer, president of the National Constituent Assembly
  • Ferdinand Alphonse Hamelin (1796–1864)- Navy officer, Admiral & Minister of Marine

    • References

    Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados Wikipedia
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