Thierville

Thierville (French pronunciation: [tjɛʁvil]) is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. It is around 30 km south-west of Rouen city centre, and around 130 km north west of Paris.

Thierville
Commune
The church in Thierville
Coat of arms
Location of Thierville
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Coordinates: 49°16′04″N 0°43′14″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Eure
Arrondissement	Bernay
Canton	Pont-Audemer
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Bertrand Simon[1]
Area 1	3.6 km2 (1.4 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	368
• Density	100/km2 (260/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	27631 /27290
Elevation	60–144 m (197–472 ft) (avg. 145 m or 476 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Thierville is remarkable as one of only 12 villages in all of France with no men lost from World War I.^[3] Even more remarkably, Thierville also suffered no losses in the Franco-Prussian War and World War II,^[4] nor in the First Indochina War nor the Algerian War. All the soldiers who took part in these five wars came back home.^[5]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1962	192	—
1968	195	+1.6%
1975	198	+1.5%
1982	231	+16.7%
1990	242	+4.8%
1999	218	−9.9%
2008	287	+31.7%

Personalities

• Probable birthplace of Theobald of Bec, archbishop of Canterbury

See also

• Communes of the Eure department
• Thankful Villages