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.

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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 / 49.2678°N 0.7206°E / 49.2678; 0.7206
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.
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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]

1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. ^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. ^ Grégory Bozonnet, La sécurité. La mémoire, Armand Colin, 2016, p. 87.
4. ^ Jérôme Duhamel (Paris 1990). Grand Inventaire du Génie Français, p.196: "Between 1919 and 1925, a war memorial was erected in every community in France, with one single exception: the village of Thierville in the department of the Eure, the only French village which had no dead to mourn, not in 1870, nor in 14-18, nor in 39-45"
5. ^ Kelly, Jon. "Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars". News Magazine. BBC. Retrieved 13 March 2014.

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