department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in the
Normandy
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region
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in northern
France
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.
Geography
A small town of
forestry
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,
farming
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and a little
light industry
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Rouen
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...
at the junction of the D6015 and the D7 roads.
Population
Places of interest
* The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the sixteenth century.
* A menhir.
* The eighteenth-century château with its
dovecote
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and park.
* The sixteenth-century chapel of Saint-Bonaventure & Saint-Adrien, built around a cave in the cliffs overlooking the river.
Notable people
*
Jacques Anquetil
Jacques Anquetil (; 8 January 1934 – 18 November 1987) was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964.
He stated before the 1961 Tour that he would gain the y ...
, cyclist, lived here in the 1960s.
*
Claude Bébéar
Claude Bébéar (born 1935) is a French businessman. He is the former CEO of AXA.
Biography Early life
Claude Bébéar was born on 29 July 1935 in Issac, France. He graduated from the Lycée Saint-Louis and the École Polytechnique. He was tra ...
, businessman, the former CEO of
AXA
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The Ax ...
Assurance, lived here.
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Jacques Godart, 6th Marquis de Belbeuf Jacques Godart, 6th Marquis de Belbeuf (27 May 1850 – 22 January 1906) was the 6th and last Marquis de Belbeuf and married French aristocrat Mathilde de Morny.
Biography
Raoul Pierre Joseph Jacques Godart de Belbeuf was born on 27 May 1850, the ...