The Charentonne is a 63 km long

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the ...

Normandy Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...

, left tributary of the

Risle The Risle (; less common: ''Rille'') is a long river in Normandy, left tributary of the Seine. The river begins in the Orne department west of L'Aigle, crosses the western part of the department of Eure flowing from south to north and out into ...

. The river begins in

pays d'Ouche The Pays d'Ouche (, literally ''Land of Ouche'') is an historical and geographical region in Normandy. It extends from the southwest of Évreux up to Bernay, Eure, Bernay and Beaumont-le-Roger as a northern limit, and down to L'Aigle and to Gacé i ...

(

Orne Orne (; nrf, Ôrne or ) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne. It had a population of 279,942 in 2019.Orderic Vitalis Orderic Vitalis ( la, Ordericus Vitalis; 16 February 1075 – ) was an English chronicler and Benedictine monk who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th- and 12th-century Normandy and Anglo-Norman England. Modern histor ...

(1075–1142). The river runs, in a north-northeast direction, towards the

with which it joins at

Serquigny Serquigny () is a commune of the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. It lies on the rail line from Cherbourg to Paris. In the village there is a privately owned manor house called Chateau de Maubuisson. Population Démographie ...

. The Charentonne valley, which separates the

Lieuvin The Lieuvin () is a plateau region in the western part of the Eure ''département'' in Normandy, France. The plateau consists of typical Norman ''bocage'' and is bounded by the Seine estuary to the north, the Risle valley to the east, the Char ...

plateau In geology and physical geography, a plateau (; ; ), also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side. Often one or more sides ...

and the Ouche plateau has stiff and wooded slopes. The bottom of the valley is covered with

clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4). Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay part ...

alluvion Alluvion, is a Roman law method of acquisition of heritable property (land). The typical cause is sediment (alluvium) deposited by a river. This sediment, legally termed ''the accessory, accreses'' (i.e., merges with) a piece of land, the principal, ...

s ; it is flat and wet, flooded in winter, with beautiful natural meadows, characteristic of Normandy. The Charentonne flows through the following communes:

Broglie Broglie is a commune of the Eure département, in France Broglie may further refer to: * The House of Broglie, a noble French family with many notable members, including: ** Maurice-Jean de Broglie (1766–1821), French aristocrat and bishop ** Al ...

, Bernay.

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Rivers of France Rivers of Orne Rivers of Eure Rivers of Normandy {{France-river-stub