La Bouille

La Bouille (French pronunciation: [la buj]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France.

La Bouille
Commune
A general view of La Bouille
Coat of arms
Location of La Bouille
La Bouille Show map of France La Bouille Show map of Normandy
Coordinates: 49°21′04″N 0°55′55″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Elbeuf
Intercommunality	Métropole Rouen Normandie
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jacques Meng[1]
Area 1	1.27 km2 (0.49 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	710
• Density	560/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76131 /76530
Elevation	2–133 m (6.6–436.4 ft) (avg. 5 m or 16 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

A small village (in area) surrounded by woodland situated south of a meander of the river Seine, some 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Rouen, at the junction of the D 64, D 132 and the D 675 roads. A ferry service crosses the river to Sahurs.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 959 —     1800 802 −2.52% 1806 877 +1.50% 1821 1,182 +2.01% 1831 1,171 −0.09% 1836 796 −7.43% 1841 772 −0.61% 1846 741 −0.82% 1851 745 +0.11% 1856 667 −2.19% 1861 652 −0.45% 1866 625 −0.84% 1872 602 −0.62% 1876 556 −1.97% 1881 562 +0.21% 1886 565 +0.11% 1891 544 −0.75% 1896 536 −0.30%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 515 −0.80% 1906 519 +0.15% 1911 502 −0.66% 1921 435 −1.42% 1926 466 +1.39% 1931 444 −0.96% 1936 497 +2.28% 1946 611 +2.09% 1954 618 +0.14% 1962 661 +0.84% 1968 611 −1.30% 1975 661 +1.13% 1982 550 −2.59% 1990 862 +5.78% 1999 791 −0.95% 2007 805 +0.22% 2012 793 −0.30% 2017 753 −1.03%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

Notable people

• Writer Hector Malot was born here in 1830.
• French actor Albert Lambert.
• La Bouille has been the subject of landscapes by Turner, Gauguin, Albert Lebourg, Robert Antoine Pinchon and Henri Vignet.

Places of interest

La Bouille and the ferry

The ferry dock at La Bouille

• The church of Sainte-Madeleine, dating from the sixteenth century.
• A sixteenth century salt warehouse.
• Several lesser buildings dating from the thirteenth century.
• The Château Albert Lambert.
• The seventeenth-century château de l'Ermitage

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet La Bouille, EHESS (in French).
4. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE