Communauté De Communes Plateau De Caux
The Communauté de communes Plateau de Caux (before October 2021: ''Communauté de communes Plateau de Caux-Doudeville-Yerville'') is a ''communauté de communes'' in the Seine-Maritime ''département'' and in the Normandy ''région'' of France. It was formed on 1 January 2017 by the merger of the former Communauté de communes d'Yerville-Plateau de Caux and Communauté de communes Plateau de Caux-Fleur de Lin on 1 January 2017.Arrêté préfectoral
1 December 2016 It consists of 40 communes, and its seat is in Doudeville.
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Doudeville
Doudeville () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geography Called the flax capital, the town is situated at the centre of the Pays de Caux, the chalk plateau in High Normandy and one widely known for its fields of blue-flowered flax. Demography Since 1793, the population has varied between 3,792 and 1,993. In the early 21st century, it is 87% of that at the dawn of the nineteenth, when there was more demand for labour on the land. History At Doudeville, the General Assemblies of linen producers were held regularly - which is where the idea of Doudeville's claim to be linen capital arose. In the nineteenth century, there was a trade in linen cloth and canvas; enough to employ 8,000 people in ten businesses in the region. Literary connection Guy de Maupassant set a good number of his stories in this region. "The yard of the farm, enclosed by trees, seemed to sleep ... The shade of the apple trees gathered itself round thei ...
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