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Commune of Pont-Audemer |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Haute-Normandie |
| Department | Eure |
| Arrondissement | Bernay |
| Canton | Pont-Audemer (chief town) |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes de Pont-Audemer |
| Mayor | Gaston Lecureur (2001-2008) |
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| Elevation | 2 m–115 m (avg. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Haute-Normandie ( Upper Normandy) is one of the 26 regions of France. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Eure is a department in the north of France named after the Eure River. The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Bernay is an arrondissement of France located in the Eure département, in the Haute-Normandie The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The Canton of Pont-Audemer is a canton of the Eure département, in France. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. 9 m) |
| Land area¹ | 9. 35 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
8,981 (Pont-Audemériens) |
| - Density | 960/km² (1999) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 27467/ 27500 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0. As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume The INSEE code is a numerical indexing code used by the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE to identify various entities including communes Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E | |
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Pont-Audemer is a commune and the chief town of a canton of the département of Eure, in the Haute-Normandie région of Normandy, in France. The following is a list of the 675 communes of the Eure département in France. The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Eure is a department in the north of France named after the Eure River. Haute-Normandie ( Upper Normandy) is one of the 26 regions of France. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Normandy (Normandie Norman: Normaundie) is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.
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Geography
The commune is situated on the Risle between the Roumois and the Lieuvin. The Risle (less common Rille) is a 144 km long river in Normandy, left tributary of the Seine. The Roumois, the region round Rouen is a region of Plateau located in the northwestern part of the Eure département in Normandy The Lieuvin is a Plateau region in the western part of the Eure département in Normandy.
Sights
The commune was spared substantial damage to its historic buildings during the Battle of Normandy. Nowadays the half-timbered buildings and the canals running between them are a tourist attraction. Timber framing (Fachwerk or Half-timbering, is the method of creating framed structures of heavy timber jointed together with pegged Mortise and tenon joints The church of Saint-Ouen is noted for its Renaissaince stained glass.
Famous Pont-Audemériens
- Laetitia Casta, supermodel, was born there in 1978
- Hervé Morin, politician, current French Minister of Defence was born there in 1961
Transport
Pont-Audemer has no rail services but the station building remains open and sells rail tickets. Laetitia Marie Laure Casta (born May 11, 1978 in Pont-Audemer, Normandy) is a French model and Actress. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Hervé Morin (born 17 August, 1961 in Pont-Audemer, Eure, Normandy) is a French Norman politician and the French Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. PontAuRail, a preserved railway, runs two Diesel multiple units (a X4500 and a X2400) from Pont-Audemer to Honfleur. PontAuRail is an Voluntary association created in 1995 to run trains between Pont-Audemer and Honfleur in France. A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a Multiple unit train consisting of multiple carriages powered by one or more on-board Diesel The SNCF Class X 4500 Diesel multiple units were built by ANF between 1963-1970 SNCF 's X 2400 are a class of Railcars The 79 XABDP 2400 unifiés 600 hp were built from 1951 to 1955 Honfleur is a commune in the Norman département of Calvados in France, located on the southern bank of the estuary
Miscellaneous
Until 1926, Pont-Audemer was the seat of a sous-préfecture of the Eure département. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Subprefectures (sous-préfectures are the administrative towns of arrondissements in France that do not contain the prefecture for its department.
Its coat of arms is a four arch bridge over a river argent in chief azure three fleur-de-lis or. A coat of arms or armorial bearings (often just arms for short in European tradition is a design belonging to a particular person (or group of people The fleur-de-lys (or fleur-de-lis, plural fleurs-de-lis ˌfləː(rdəˈliː (ˌfləː(rdəˈlɪs in Quebec) translated from French as "lily
The city is evoked in a poem of Paul Verlaine called The Apollo of Pont-Audemer. Paul-Marie Verlaine (vɛʁˈlɛn March 30, 1844 &ndash January 8, 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist
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