Paluel () is a
commune in the
Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime () is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-InfĂ ...
department in the
Normandy
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Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular N ...
region in northern
France
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.
Geography
A village of
farming
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and
light industry
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situated by the banks of the river
Durdent in the
Pays de Caux
The Pays de Caux (, , literally ''Land of Caux'') is an area in Normandy occupying the greater part of the French '' département'' of Seine Maritime in Normandy. It is a chalk plateau to the north of the Seine Estuary and extending to the cl ...
at the junction of the D10, D68 and the D79 roads, some southwest of
Dieppe
Dieppe (; ; or Old Norse ) is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, northern France.
Dieppe is a seaport on the English Channel at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to Newhaven in England ...
.
History
The village owes its name to the marshes (in Latin "Palus"), in the lower valley of the Durdent.
A
Roman
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of Roman civilization
*Epistle to the Romans, shortened to Romans, a letter w ...
mosaic was excavated in 1849 at a place known as the Rosy.
A church has existed here from 988, under the jurisdiction of the abbey at
FĂ©camp
FĂ©camp () is a commune in the northwestern French department of Seine-Maritime.
Geography
FĂ©camp is situated in the valley of the river Valmont, at the heart of the Pays de Caux, on the Alabaster Coast. It is around northeast of Le Havre, ...
.
The manor of Janville was given to the
seigneurs
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of Paluel by
Henri III in 1582.
There was a
leper colony
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'' M. leprae'', the bacterium responsible for leprosy, is believed to have spread from East ...
here until 1695.
The commune had 638 inhabitants in 1876.
The
United States
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"Lucky Strike" army camp counted 300,000 inhabitants after the offensive against
Germany
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during 1944/45.
In 1977, EDF, the French electricity company, built a
nuclear power station
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, with 4
reactors of 1300MW each. It covers of land within the commune.
Population
Places of interest
* The nuclear power station on the coast at Conteville.
* The seventeenth-century château de Janville, with its
dovecote
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and park.
* The two 18th-century châteaux at Bertheauville and Conteville
* The
chapel
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of Notre-Dame at Janville, dating from the thirteenth century.
* The church of St. Pierre, dating from the twelfth century.
* The church of St. Martin, dating from the thirteenth century.
* A sixteenth-century stone cross.
See also
*
Paluel Nuclear Power Plant
*
References
Communes of Seine-Maritime
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