Livarot (French pronunciation: [livaʁo] ⓘ) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

The town is home to many companies of renown such as the Georges Leroy factory, Graindorge cheese manufacturing which produces Livarot, among others.

[4] The etymological explanation of this place name has no unanimity among toponymists: On 17 July 1944, the pharmacist and Mayor of Livarot brought first aid to Rommel[9] following the strafing of his car by an Allied aircraft, not far away, between the villages of Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery and Vimoutiers.

The French Resistance then learned that the Germans had abandoned Livarot and that the first British soldiers had entered the same day.

[18] The cycling section of the club has trained many riders such as father and son François and Romain Lemarchand,[citation needed] and also Fabien Taillefer [fr].