Villequier

A village of farming and forestry situated by the banks of the river Seine in the Pays de Caux, some {{convert|23|mi|km}} west of Rouen near the junction of the D281 with the D81 road.

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|img1=Blason ville fr Villequier (Seine-Maritime).svg

|legend1=Arms of Villequier

|text=The arms of Villequier are blazoned :
Gules, on a cross fleury between 12 billets Or, an anchor sable.

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{{Demography

|1962 = 740

|1968 = 773

|1975 = 752

|1982 = 769

|1990 = 822

|1999 = 808

|2006 = 788

|withoutdoublecount = 1962

}}

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• The church of St. Pierre, dating from the sixteenth century.
• The church of St. Martin, dating from the twelfth century.
• The fifteenth-century chateau of Ételan, with its park and a dovecote.
• Medieval fortifications at La Guerche.
• Three seventeenth-century manorhouses.
• An eighteenth-century presbytery.
• The chapel of Barre-Y-Va.
• The Victor Hugo museum.
• The Hugo family tombs in the cemetery.

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• Victor Hugo (1802–1895), dramatist, spent much time here with his friends and family. His daughter Léopoldine Hugo drowned in Villequier in 1843.
• Auguste Vacquerie (1819–1895), poet and journalist, was born here and is buried here.

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

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Category:Former communes of Seine-Maritime

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