Doudeville

Doudeville (French pronunciation: [dudvil]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

In the nineteenth century, there was a trade in linen cloth and canvas; enough to employ 8,000 people in ten businesses in the region.

The shade of the apple trees gathered itself round their feet and the thatched roofs of the buildings at the summit of which grew irises ..." from The Story of a Farm Girl (Histoire d'une fille de ferme) by Guy de Maupassant in his short story collection La Maison Tellier.

In Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" Charles' father dies in Doudeville following a dinner with old military friends.

There are castles, manor houses with their dovecotes, majestic churches, little chapels and roadside calvaries carved from sandstone.

Arms of Doudeville
Arms of Doudeville