Doudeville | |
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 The château de Galleville | |
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| Coordinates:49°43′16″N0°46′59″E / 49.7210°N 0.7830°E /49.7210; 0.7830 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Seine-Maritime |
| Arrondissement | Rouen |
| Canton | Yvetot |
| Intercommunality | CC Plateau de Caux |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Daniel Durécu[1] |
Area 1 | 14.51 km2 (5.60 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 2,440 |
| • Density | 168/km2 (436/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 76219 /76560 |
| Elevation | 85–156 m (279–512 ft) (avg. 120 m or 390 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Doudeville (French pronunciation:[dudvil]) is acommune in theSeine-Maritimedepartment in theNormandyregion in northernFrance.
Called theflax capital, the town is situated at the centre of thePays de Caux, thechalkplateau in High Normandy and one widely known for its fields of blue-flowered flax.
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.
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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.
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 their feet and the thatched roofs of the buildings at the summit of which grew irises ..." from The Story of a Farm Girl (Histoire d'une fille de ferme) byGuy de Maupassant in his short story collectionLa Maison Tellier. For more, seePays de Caux.
InGustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" Charles' father dies in Doudeville following a dinner with old military friends.
| The arms of Doudeville areblazoned : Azure, a bend sinister, overall 3 sacks of wheat, the bottommost covering a sickle Or, and on a chief gules, 3 bees proper. |
There are castles, manor houses with their dovecotes, majestic churches, little chapels and roadside calvaries carved from sandstone.
TheHôtel de Ville is a very large building in the Place du Général de Gaulle which was formerly la Place de l'Hôtel de Ville. It was built in about 1780 by François Louis Leseigneur; lord of Reuville and Galleville. Until the early nineteenth century, this was the trading centre for the linen cloth and siamoise, a cotton cloth which was common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.In 1852, the building was bought by the town and refurbished. At that time, the ground floor was agrain market, a prison and the caretaker's lodging. The first floor housed the places in which the duties of the mayor and of the justices of the peace were carried out. At one time, as in many market halls, the ground floor was not fully enclosed. There were wide arched openings. The square in front of it held several small market buildings where traders such as pork butchers, butchers and shoemakers worked. It has undergone a major refurbishment which was due for completion in September 2007.
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