Bihorel () is a

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of the

Seine-Maritime Seine-Maritime () is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Inféri ...

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in the

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in northern

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.Commune de Bihorel (76095)
INSEE It is a northeastern suburb of

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 ...

Geography

Situation

Bihorel is a

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and

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town forming part of the agglomeration of

. Located on the northern plateau of Rouen, Bihorel is a town with three districts: *Vieux Bihorel: attached to Rouen, halfway up the slope; *plateau des Provinces : the neighborhood of collective buildings behind old Bihorel; *le Chapitre: the residential neighborhood further north.

Roads and transportation

Bihorel is situated at the junction of the D243 and the D443 roads. The T2 line (TEOR) permits to reach the city center of Rouen in 30 minutes from the south of Bihorel. The F2, 40 and 20 lines make possible to go to the city center of Rouen in 10 minutes.

Heraldry

History

The town was created on April 13, 1892. Previously, Bihorel was a district of

Bois-Guillaume Bois-Guillaume () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geography The town is a wealthy, residential hilltop suburb of Rouen, semi-rural, semi-suburban with a little farming and some light indust ...

. On 4 July 2011, the merger of Bihorel and Bois-Guillaume was voted in the municipal councils, a merger that was effective from January 1, 2012, under the regime of the new municipalities, despite the consultation organized by the mayors of these two cities. There was a very large opposition from the population (66.43% opposed). From January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2013, the municipality was merged with its neighbor, Bois-Guillaume, as the ''

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'' ''Bois-Guillaume-Bihorel''. The creation of this commune was invalidated by the administrative court of Rouen, a decision neither the prefecture or the municipality appealed. The two municipalities were recreated on 1 January 2014.

Population

Places of interest

* The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the nineteenth century. * A seventeenth century

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Notable people

Jules Michelet Jules Michelet (; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian and an author on other topics whose major work was a history of France and its culture. His aphoristic style emphasized his anti-clerical republicanism. In Michelet's ...

(1798–1874) historian, stayed here many times. *

Charles Nicolle Charles Jules Henri Nicolle (21 September 1866 – 28 February 1936) was a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. Family Nicolle was born to Aline L ...

(1866–1936) scientist, had a house here.

Twin towns

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