La Bouille
La Bouille is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France.
Geography
A small village 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.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
[Image:La Bouille et son bac.JPG|left|thumb|300px|La Bouille and the ferry][Image:La bouille embarcadère.jpg|center|thumb|310px|The ferry dock at La Bouille]
- 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