La Bouille

La Bouille () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France.

Geography

A small village (in area) surrounded by woodland situated south of a meander of the river Seine, some 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

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

• 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