La Bouille

La Bouille
Commune
A general view of La Bouille
Coat of arms
Location of La Bouille
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Coordinates: 49°21′04″N 0°55′55″E / 49.351°N 0.932°E / 49.351; 0.932
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Elbeuf
Intercommunality	Métropole Rouen Normandie
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jacques Meng[1]
Area 1	1.27 km2 (0.49 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	710
• Density	560/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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.

La Bouille (French pronunciation: [la buj]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western 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 D 64, D 132 and the D 675 roads. A ferry service crosses the river to Sahurs.

Population

Notable people

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

• The church of Sainte-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

References

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