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5 unusual facts about Yvetot


Caroline Gardner Bartlett

At Yvetot, working with the French army's sanitary service, Bartlett created a hospital from a deserted building in need of indoor plumbing, electrical wiring, and heat.

Charles Lowder

Keeping a low profile, Lowder travelled to France and stayed at Yvetot seminary.

Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot

Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 1831, Rouen) was a French ornithologist.

Pont de Brotonne

Its construction was financed by the General council of Seine-Maritime for the purpose of opening up the Pays de Caux and assuring a connection between the commune of Yvetot and the A13 autoroute by way of the forêt de Brotonne (Brotonne forest), from which the bridge gets its name.

Yvetot

Yvetot’s entry in the Dictionnaire des idées reçues by Gustave Flaubert, reads: "YVETOT: Voir Yvetot et mourir ! (See Yvetot and die) (cf. Naples and Seville)".


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Beaucamps-le-Vieux

Humboldt the Old (Fr: Humbaud le Vieux, Latin: Humbaldus Vetulus ou Veteris) Lord of Beaucamps, was a knight descendent of the "le Vieux d’Yvetot" a Normand family of French-Danish origins.


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