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Sights
The commune was spared substantial damage to its historic buildings during the Battle of Normandy
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. Nowadays the half-timbered
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buildings and the canals running between them are a tourist attraction. The church of Saint-Ouen is noted for its Renaissance stained glass.
Personalities
*, supermodel, was born there in 1978.
* Delphine Philippe-Lemaître, 19th-century historian, archaeologist
*Hervé Morin
Hervé Morin (; born 17 August 1961) is a French politician of the Centrists who has been serving as the first President of the Regional Council of Normandy since January 2016. Under President Nicolas Sarkozy, he was the Minister of Defence.
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, politician, former French Minister of Defence was born there in 1961.
*Alexis Vastine
Alexis Vastine (17 November 1986 – 9 March 2015) was a French boxer who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Light Welterweight division. He also competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics, where he was eliminated in the quarterfina ...
, boxer, was born there in 1986.
Transport
Pont-Audemer has a railway station, Gare de Pont-Audemer
Gare de Pont-Audemer is a former railway station in the market town of Pont-Audemer, Eure in Upper Normandy. The station is on the railway line from Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris-Saint-Lazare to Honfleur station, Honfleur via Brionne station, Brionne ...
, but passenger services were ceased in 1969. The station is served by TER Haute-Normandie
TERTransport Express Régional Haute Normandie was the regional rail network serving the former region of Upper Normandy in France. In 2016 it was merged into the new TER Normandie.
Trains are operated by the SNCF, services are subject to regulati ...
buses. PontAuRail
PontAuRail was a voluntary association created in 1995 to run trains between Gare de Pont-Audemer, Pont-Audemer and Honfleur Marshalling yard, Honfleur in France. The group comprised approximately fifty voluntary members, of which twenty were ac ...
, a heritage railway association, ran two Diesel multiple unit
A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines. A DMU requires no separate locomotive, as the engines are incorporated into one or more of the carriages. Diesel-powered single-unit railcars are also ...
s (a X4500 and a X2400) from Pont-Audemer to Honfleur
Honfleur () is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. It is located on the southern bank of the estuary of the Seine across from Le Havre and very close to the exit of the Pont de Normandie. The people that inhabit Hon ...
between 1995 and 2006.
Administration
Until 1926, Pont-Audemer was a sub-prefecture
A subprefecture is an administrative division of a country that is below prefecture or province.
Albania
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of the Eure department.
Media
The city is evoked in a poem of Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlaine ( ; ; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolism (movement), Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the ''fin de siècle'' ...
called "The Apollo of Pont-Audemer."
The area is included in Ted Fahrenwald's book "Bailout Over Normandy: A Flyboy's Adventures" as the site where he met Riri, his sweetheart.
Twin towns - sister cities
Pont-Audemer is twinned with:
* Ringwood in England
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* Veghel
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in the Netherlands
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Gallery
Image:Pont-Audemer_Place_Louis_Gillain_R01.jpg, Place Louis Gillain
Image:Pont-Audemer_Monument_aux_Morts_R02.jpg, War memorial
Image:Gare de Pont-Audemer 14-07-03.jpg, Train station
Image:SNCF X 2426 Pont-Audemer 25-02-06.jpg, The X2426 at Pont-Audemer Station
Gare de Pont-Audemer is a former railway station in the market town of Pont-Audemer, Eure in Upper Normandy. The station is on the railway line from Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris-Saint-Lazare to Honfleur station, Honfleur via Brionne station, Brionne ...
See also
*Communes of the Eure department
The following is a list of the 585 communes of the Eure department of France
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References
Communes of Eure
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