Conches-en-Ouche (, literally ''Conches in Ouche'') is a commune in the

Eure Eure () is a department in Normandy in Northwestern France, named after the river Eure. Its prefecture is Évreux. In 2019, Eure had a population of 599,507.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 The Pays d'Ouche (, literally ''Land of Ouche'') is an historical and geographical region in Normandy. It extends from the southwest of Évreux up to Bernay, Eure, Bernay and Beaumont-le-Roger as a northern limit, and down to L'Aigle and to Gacé i ...

Population

Sights and monuments

Château de Conches-en-Ouche The Château de Conches-en-Ouche is a ruined castle in the ''commune'' of Conches-en-Ouche in the Eure department of France, demolished in the 16th century. History The start of construction dates back to 1034 and Roger I of Tosny. The castl ...

, ruins of 11th-century castle * L'église Sainte-Foy * Abbaye Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Châtillon-lès-Conches * Arboretum * Folk museum

Personalities linked to the commune

Guillaume de Conches William of Conches (c. 1090/1091 – c. 1155/1170s) was a French scholastic philosopher who sought to expand the bounds of Christian humanism by studying secular works of the classics and fostering empirical science. He was a prominent memb ...

, medieval

grammarian Grammarian may refer to: * Alexandrine grammarians, philologists and textual scholars in Hellenistic Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE * Biblical grammarians, scholars who study the Bible and the Hebrew language * Grammarian (Greco-Roman ...

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

and theologian linked to the School of Chartres. * Diderot set an episode of '' Jacques le fataliste et son maître'' (1773/1775) in Conches. *

Victor-Amédée Barbié du Bocage Victor-Amédée Barbié du Bocage (28 January 1832 – 11 October 1890) was a French geographer. 1832 births 1890 deaths Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur French geographers Scientists from Paris {{France-scientist-stub ...

(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 François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France, King o ...

(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 Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne * ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlu ...

, 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

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