commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Seine-Maritime
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Normandy
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region in northern
France
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.
Geography
A
farming
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village situated in the
Pays de Caux
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, some northwest of Rouen at the junction of the D6015 with the D131e and the D110 roads.
History
In the late eleventh century the village was in the possession of Bec Abbey.
In May 1592, Henry IV and his forces were encamped in the village during the
French Wars of Religion
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.
In April 1940, during
World War II
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Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment
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* The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the thirteenth century. Its
Gothic
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People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
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tower dates from the sixteenth century. It has been restored after being in a state of disrepair in the mid nineteenth century.