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Doudeville

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Doudeville

Total population

2,460

Elevation85 m
Land area14.51 km²
WeatherAvg high 58.5°F
Coordinates49.72°, 0.78°

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City facts

Elevation
85 m
Area
14.51 km²
Official website
www.doudeville.fr

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Overview

Doudeville is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

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History & geography

History

At Doudeville, the General Assemblies of linen producers were held regularly - which is where the idea of Doudeville's claim to be linen capital arose. In the nineteenth century, there was a trade in linen cloth and canvas; enough to employ 8,000 people in ten businesses in the region. Guy de Maupassant set a good number of his stories in this region. "The yard of the farm, enclosed by trees, seemed to sleep ... The shade of the apple trees gathered itself round their feet and the thatched roofs of the buildings at the summit of which grew irises ..." from The Story of a Farm Girl (Histoire d'une fille de ferme) by Guy de Maupassant in his short story collection La Maison Tellier. For more, see Pays de Caux. In Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" Charles' father dies in Doudeville following a dinner with old military friends.

Geography

Called the flax capital, the town is situated at the centre of the Pays de Caux, the chalk plateau in High Normandy and one widely known for its fields of blue-flowered flax.

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Geography

Latitude
49.7229
Longitude
0.7836
Water area
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Climate

Avg high
58.5°F
Avg low
46.1°F
Annual precipitation
36.6 in

10-year averages from ERA5 reanalysis (Open-Meteo).

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Official Identifiers

INSEE — French National Institute of Statistics

INSEE code
76219
Department
76
Region
28
Population (Wikidata)
2,420

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Sources

  • Wikipedia
  • Open-Meteo (ERA5 reanalysis)
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  • INSEE — French national statistics, via geo.api.gouv.fr (official commune code, population, surface, department, region)
  • INSEE — French National Institute of Statistics — geo.api.gouv.fr