Conches-en-Ouche (, literally Conches in Ouche) is a commune in the Eure département in northern France.
Geography
It is located by the Rouloir river, southwest of Évreux in the Normandy region. The town is located on a plateau known as the Pays d'Ouche.
Population
Sights and monuments
- Château de Conches-en-Ouche, ruins of 11th-century castle
- Church of St Faith ()
- Abbaye Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Châtillon-lès-Conches
- Arboretum
- Folk museum
Personalities linked to the commune
- William of Conches, medieval grammarian, philosopher and theologian of the School of Chartres.
- Diderot set an episode of Jacques le fataliste et son maître (1773/1775) in Conches.
- Victor-Amédée Barbié du Bocage (1832–1890), renowned geographer and essayist, died in the Château de Quenet on 11 October 1890.
- Paul Collin (1843–1915), writer and librettist, was born here.
- François Décorchemont (1880–1971), master glassmaker who made the windows of numerous churches in the Eure and the Church of Sainte-Odile in Paris was born and died in Conches.
- Alfred Recours, mayor of the town since 1984 and a former deputy for l'Eure.
- Roger de Tosny I, medieval knight known as the Moor Eater
International relations
Conches-en-Ouche is twinned with:
- Rhodes, Greece
- Człuchów, Poland
- Wareham, United Kingdom
- Aulendorf, Germany
See also
- Communes of the Eure department
Gallery
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File:Conches gargoyles on Sainte-Foy.jpg|Gargoyles on Sainte-Foy
File:Conches-en-Ouche donjon.jpg| Keep (donjon) built 1035 by Roger I of Tosny and destroyed 1591 in the French Wars of Religion
File:Conches-en-Ouche abbaye.jpg|Abbey (11th century) and hospital
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