La Bouille

La Bouille
La Bouille
Location within Upper Normandy region La Bouille
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Grand-Couronne
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Joel Temperton
Area1	1.27 km2 (0.49 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	818
• Density	640/km2 (1,700/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76131 / 76530
Elevation	2–133 m (6.6–436.4 ft) (avg. 5 m or 16 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

La Bouille is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Geography

A small village (in area) surrounded by woodland situated south of a meander of the river Seine, some 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Rouen, at the junction of the D64, D132 and the D675 roads. A ferry service crosses the river to Sahurs.

Population

Historical population of La Bouille

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	561	611	661	550	862	791	818
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Notable people

• Writer Hector Malot was born here in 1830.
• French actor Albert Lambert.
• La Bouille has been the subject of landscapes by Turner, Gauguin, Albert Lebourg, Robert Antoine Pinchon and Henri Vignet.

Places of interest

Looking south to La Bouille

The ferry dock at La Bouille

• The church of St. Madeleine, dating from the sixteenth century.
• A sixteenth century salt warehouse.
• Several lesser buildings dating from the thirteenth century.
• The Château Albert Lambert.
• The seventeenth-century château de l'Ermitage

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
• Seine-Maritime
• Normandy

References

• INSEE

External links

• La Bouille on the Quid website (French)