department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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in the
Normandy
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...
region in north-western
France
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.
Geography
A
farming
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village situated some northeast 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 ...
at the junction of the D 90, D 928 and the D 51 roads.
Heraldry
Population
Places of interest
* The church of St. Marguerite, dating from the nineteenth century.
* A sixteenth-century stone cross in the cemetery.
People
* It is the burial place of
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 ...
(1934–1987) a
road racing cyclist
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