Conches-en-Ouche

{{Infobox French commune

|name = Conches-en-Ouche

|commune status = Commune

|image = Conches-en-Ouche Eglise Sainte-Foy.jpg

|caption = Church of St Faith ({{lang|fr|l'Église Sainte-Foy}})

|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Conches-en-Ouche (Eure).svg

|arrondissement = Évreux

|canton = Conches-en-Ouche

|INSEE = 27165

|postal code = 27190

|mayor = Jérôme Pasco{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=13 September 2022|language=fr}}

|term = 2020–2026

|intercommunality = Pays de Conches

|coordinates = {{coord|48.9614|0.9433|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|elevation m = 123

|elevation min m = 100

|elevation max m = 173

|area km2 = 16.72

|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}

|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}

|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}

}}

Conches-en-Ouche ({{IPA|fr|kɔ̃ʃ ɑ̃.n‿uʃ}}, literally Conches in Ouche) is a commune in the Eure département in northern France.

Geography

It is located by the Rouloir river, southwest of Évreux in the Normandy region. The town is located on a plateau known as the Pays d'Ouche.

Population

{{Historical populations

|source = INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-27165#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE

|percentages = pagr

|align = none

|1968 |3534

|1975 |3785

|1982 |3854

|1990 |4009

|1999 |4280

|2007 |5046

|2012 |4994

|2017 |5030

}}

Sights and monuments

Château de Conches-en-Ouche, ruins of 11th-century castle
Church of St Faith ({{lang|fr|l'Église Sainte-Foy}})
Abbaye Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Châtillon-lès-Conches
Arboretum
Folk museum

Personalities linked to the commune

William of Conches, medieval grammarian, philosopher and theologian of the School of Chartres.
Diderot set an episode of Jacques le fataliste et son maître (1773/1775) in Conches.
Victor-Amédée Barbié du Bocage (1832–1890), renowned geographer and essayist, died in the Château de Quenet on 11 October 1890.
Paul Collin (1843–1915), writer and librettist, was born here.
François Décorchemont (1880–1971), master glassmaker who made the windows of numerous churches in the Eure and the Church of Sainte-Odile in Paris was born and died in Conches.
Alfred Recours, mayor of the town since 1984 and a former deputy for l'Eure.
[http://www.normandythenandnow.com/the-moor-eater-and-other-tales-of-the-lords-de-tosny/ Roger de Tosny I], medieval knight known as the Moor Eater

International relations

Conches-en-Ouche is twinned with:

{{flagicon|GRE}} Rhodes, Greece{{cite web|url=http://www.kedke.gr/uploads/twinnedcities.pdf|title=Twinnings|access-date=2013-08-25|work=Central Union of Municipalities & Communities of Greece|archive-date=5 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805053212/http://www.kedke.gr/uploads/twinnedcities.pdf|url-status=dead}}
{{flagicon|POL}} Człuchów, Poland
{{flagicon|UK}} Wareham, United Kingdom{{cite web|url=http://www.completefrance.com/language-culture/twin-towns|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705094933/http://www.completefrance.com/language-culture/twin-towns|title=British towns twinned with French towns [via WaybackMachine.com]|access-date=2013-07-20|archive-date=5 July 2013|work=Archant Community Media Ltd}}
{{flagicon|GER}} Aulendorf, Germany

Gallery

File:Conches gargoyles on Sainte-Foy.jpg|Gargoyles on Sainte-Foy

File:Conches-en-Ouche donjon.jpg| Keep (donjon) built 1035 by Roger I of Tosny and destroyed 1591 in the French Wars of Religion

File:Conches-en-Ouche abbaye.jpg|Abbey (11th century) and hospital

References

Category:Communes of Eure