Villequier

Geography

Heraldry

Population

Places of interest

• The church of St. Pierre, dating from the sixteenth century.
• The church of St. Martin, dating from the twelfth century.
• The fifteenth-century chateau of Ételan, with its park and a dovecote.
• Medieval fortifications at La Guerche.
• Three seventeenth-century manorhouses.
• An eighteenth-century presbytery.
• The chapel of Barre-Y-Va.
• The Victor Hugo museum.
• The Hugo family tombs in the cemetery.

People

• Victor Hugo, dramatist, spent much time here with his friends and family. His daughter Léopoldine Hugo drowned in Villequier in 1843.
• Auguste Vacquerie, poet and journalist, was born here and is buried here.