Bonneville-sur-Touques

Bonneville-sur-Touques
Bonneville-sur-Touques
Location within Lower Normandy region Bonneville-sur-Touques
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Pont-l'Évêque
Intercommunality	Blangy Pont-l'Évêque
Government
• Mayor (2014–)	Florence Cothier
Area1	6.63 km2 (2.56 sq mi)
Population (211)2	401
• Density	60/km2 (160/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	14086 / 14800
Elevation	3–132 m (9.8–433.1 ft) (avg. 80 m or 260 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Bonneville-sur-Touques is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France, located four kilometres from the urban agglomeration Deauville-Trouville. The commune is principally famous for its 11th century castle, which protected the nearby supply port of Touques. The population is 401.

Etymology

The name Bonneville is attested as far back as 1014, when it appeared in the form Bonnavilla. Old French bonne, or good, already had its current meaning at that time, and ville, or town, which in placenames often has its original meaning of rural area (from the Latin villa rustica), might here have the later sense of "village".

Government

The municipal council has 11 members, including the mayor and two deputies.

List of Mayors

In office	Name	Party	Profession
1989-March 2001	Marthe Belliot	-	-
March 2001-March 2014	Michel Lebey	Independent	farmer, breeder
March 2014-	Florence Cothier	Independent	Retired sales manager

Demographics

The population history of Bonneville-sur-Touques is known back to 1793, when the French government began conducting censuses; municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants were surveyed every five years (larger cities take a yearly count). Bonneville-sur-Touques's peak population was 476 in 1876.

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
443	403	454	410	433	443	407	448	464

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
450	456	450	466	476	460	389	401	387

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
366	349	347	370	349	342	319	306	312

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2004	2006	2009
269	284	335	342	354	318	360	374	390

2011	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
401	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Significant sites

• Château de Bonneville-sur-Touques, nicknamed "William the Conqueror's ruins" (11th century), classified as a historic monument since 16 November 1964
• Église Saint-Germain-et-Saint-Loup (18th century)
• Manoir de la Croix de fer (Iron Cross Manor), bought in 2006 by Tatiana Beck, for 1 million euros.

Notable residents

• William the Conqueror frequently stayed at the castle when he went hunting in Saint-Gatien forest.
• John of England also lived at the castle.

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

Further reading

• Abbé Noël, Bonneville-sur-Touques, son château, son église, Impr. Domin, 1898
• André Gilbert, Le Château de Bonneville-sur-Touques, Delesques, Caen, 1894.
• Jean Bureau, Jean Chennebenoist et Gérard Léo, Touques, ses monuments, son passé. Le château de Bonneville, Trouville, 1968
• Georges Bernage, « Touques et Bonneville », Patrimoine normand, volume 16, sept.-oct. 1997

External links

• Bonneville-sur-Touques on La communauté de communes (French)
• INSEE Census statistics on Bonneville-sur-Touques (French)