- Source: Conches-en-Ouche
Conches-en-Ouche (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃ʃ ɑ̃.n‿uʃ], literally Conches in Ouche) is a commune in the Eure département in northern France.
Geography
It is located by the Rouloir river, southwest of Évreux in the Normandy region. The town is located on a plateau known as the Pays d'Ouche.
Population
Sights and monuments
Château de Conches-en-Ouche, ruins of 11th-century castle
Church of St Faith (l'Église Sainte-Foy)
Abbaye Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Châtillon-lès-Conches
Arboretum
Folk museum
Personalities linked to the commune
William of Conches, medieval grammarian, philosopher and theologian of the School of Chartres.
Diderot set an episode of Jacques le fataliste et son maître (1773/1775) in Conches.
Victor-Amédée Barbié du Bocage (1832–1890), renowned geographer and essayist, died in the Château de Quenet on 11 October 1890.
Paul Collin (1843–1915), writer and librettist, was born here.
François Décorchemont (1880–1971), master glassmaker who made the windows of numerous churches in the Eure and the Church of Sainte-Odile in Paris was born and died in Conches.
Alfred Recours, mayor of the town since 1984 and a former deputy for l'Eure.
Roger de Tosny I, medieval knight known as the Moor Eater
International relations
Conches-en-Ouche is twinned with:
Rhodes, Greece
Człuchów, Poland
Wareham, United Kingdom
Aulendorf, Germany
See also
Communes of the Eure department
Gallery
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Komune di departemen Eure
- Conches-sur-Gondoire
- Daftar stasiun SNCF di Haute-Normandie
- Arondisemen Évreux
- Wareham, Dorset
- Évreux
- Arondisemen Bernay
- Routot
- Cuverville, Eure
- La Haye-de-Routot
- Conches-en-Ouche
- Canton of Conches-en-Ouche
- Château de Conches-en-Ouche
- Conches
- Robert III of Artois
- Raoul III of Tosny
- Pierre Labric
- Raoul II of Tosny
- Crazy for Love
- Wareham, Dorset
