Conches-en-Ouche
Conches-en-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.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 in Conches.
- Victor-Amédée Barbié du Bocage, renowned geographer and essayist, died in the Château de Quenet on 11 October 1890.
- Paul Collin, writer and librettist, was born here.
- François Décorchemont, 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.
- , medieval knight known as the Moor Eater