Thierville
| Thierville | |
|---|---|
  Thierville | |
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Location within Normandy region  Thierville | |
| Coordinates: 49°16′04″N 0°43′14″E / 49.2678°N 0.7206°ECoordinates: 49°16′04″N 0°43′14″E / 49.2678°N 0.7206°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Eure |
| Arrondissement | Bernay |
| Canton | Montfort-sur-Risle |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Bertrand Simon |
| Area1 | 3.6 km2 (1.4 sq mi) |
| Population (2008)2 | 287 |
| • Density | 80/km2 (210/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 27631 / 27290 |
| Elevation |
60–144 m (197–472 ft) (avg. 145 m or 476 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Thierville is a commune in the Eure department in Haute-Normandie in northern France. It is around 30 km south-west of Rouen city centre, and around 130 km north west of Paris.
Thierville is remarkable as the only village in all of France with no men lost from World War I, nor any memorials constructed in the subsequent period. Remarkably, Thierville also suffered no losses in the Franco-Prussian War and World War II,[1] nor in the First Indochina War nor the Algerian War. All the soldiers who took part in these five wars came back home.[2]
Population
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1962 | 192 | — |
| 1968 | 195 | +1.6% |
| 1975 | 198 | +1.5% |
| 1982 | 231 | +16.7% |
| 1990 | 242 | +4.8% |
| 1999 | 218 | −9.9% |
| 2008 | 287 | +31.7% |
Personalities
- Probable birthplace of Theobald of Bec, archbishop of Canterbury
See also
References
- INSEE for population figures
- ↑ Jérôme Duhamel (Paris 1990). Grand Inventaire du Génie Français, p.196: "Between 1919 and 1925, a war memorial was erected in every community in France, with one single exception: the village of Thierville in the department of the Eure, the only French village which had no dead to mourn, not in 1870, nor in 14-18, nor in 39-45"
- ↑ Kelly, Jon. "Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars". News Magazine. BBC. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
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