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Forges-les-Eaux
Normandievillage
Forges-les-Eaux
Total population
3,702
Founded
2016
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Overview
Forges-les-Eaux is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2016, the former commune of Le Fossé was merged into Forges-les-Eaux.
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History
Known as "De Forgis" in 1186, the first part of the name, Forges, is derived from the fact that it was an important centre for the mining and manufacturing of iron in Roman times. The second part of its name comes from the therapeutic use of the thermal waters from the sixteenth century onwards. A seigneur from Forges took part in the Battle of Hastings and another took part in the First Crusade. During the Hundred Years War, a certain Philippe de Forges was killed in 1356 at the Battle of Poitiers. Years later, but in the same conflict, the English besieged the castle and took the town, in 1418. Blanche d'Evreux, widow of Philippe VI of France, came here to take the waters in the fourteenth century, but it was the Chevalier de Varenne who really began the vogue in 1573. The spa became famous after the stay from 21 June to 13 July 1632 of Louis XIII, Anne of Austria and Cardinal Richelieu. Because of the royal visit, the parks, gardens and many water sources were developed, including three lakes that still exist today. Subsequently, many famous figures from French history have taken the waters. In 1657, the Regent Doctor of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, Pierre Cressé, wrote a thesis on the waters of Forges which he compared to those of Passy then the chemist Gilles-François Boulduc, apothecary to King Louis XIV, studied their composition. A large pottery factory was active from 1797 to the end of the nineteenth century. The casino was first built in the nineteenth century but destroyed by fire in 1896. It was rebuilt and reopened in 1902. 1906 saw the first (in France) annual butter conventions. The railway station was opened in the nineteenth century and runs a TER service to Gisors and Dieppe. The film "Poulet au vinaigre" (1985) by Claude Chabrol, with…
Geography
A farming and spa town, with considerable light industry, situated by the banks of the rivers Andelle and Epte, in the Pays de Bray, some southeast of Dieppe, at the junction of the D 915, D 921, D1314 and D 919 roads.
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Official Identifiers
INSEE — French National Institute of Statistics
- INSEE code
- 76276
- Department
- 76
- Region
- 28
- Population (Wikidata)
- 3,642
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikimedia Commons
- • Wikidata
- • 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