Conches-en-Ouche

Geography

Population

Sights and monuments

• Château de Conches-en-Ouche, ruins of 11th-century castle
• L'église Sainte-Foy
• Abbaye Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Châtillon-lès-Conches
• Arboretum
• Folk museum

  Personalities linked to the commune

• Guillaume de Conches, medieval grammarian, philosopher and theologian linked to 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

  International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

• Rhodes, Greece
• Człuchów, Poland
• Wareham, United Kingdom
• Aulendorf, Germany

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