Thierville (French pronunciation: [tjɛʁvil]) is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. It is around 30 km south-west of Rouen city centre, and around 130 km north west of Paris.
Thierville | |
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 The church in Thierville | |
.svg) Coat of arms | |
Location of Thierville  | |
  Thierville  Thierville | |
| Coordinates: 49°16′04″N 0°43′14″E / 49.2678°N 0.7206°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Eure |
| Arrondissement | Bernay |
| Canton | Pont-Audemer |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Bertrand Simon[1] |
Area 1 | 3.6 km2 (1.4 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 370 |
| • Density | 100/km2 (270/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 27631 /27290 |
| Elevation | 60–144 m (197–472 ft) (avg. 145 m or 476 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Thierville is remarkable as one of only 12 villages in all of France with no men lost from World War I.[3] Even more remarkably, Thierville also suffered no losses in the Franco-Prussian War and World War II,[4] nor in the First Indochina War nor the Algerian War. All the soldiers who took part in these five wars came back home.[5]
Population
edit| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 192 | — |
| 1968 | 195 | +1.6% |
| 1975 | 198 | +1.5% |
| 1982 | 231 | +16.7% |
| 1990 | 242 | +4.8% |
| 1999 | 218 | −9.9% |
| 2008 | 287 | +31.7% |
Personalities
edit- Probable birthplace of Theobald of Bec, archbishop of Canterbury
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Grégory Bozonnet, La sécurité. La mémoire, Armand Colin, 2016, p. 87.
- ^ Jérôme Duhamel (Paris 1990). Grand Inventaire du Génie Français, p.196: "Between 1919 and 1925, a war memorial was erected in every community in France, with one single exception: the village of Thierville in the department of the Eure, the only French village which had no dead to mourn, not in 1870, nor in 14-18, nor in 39-45"
- ^ Kelly, Jon. "Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars". News Magazine. BBC. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
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