Beaumont-en-Auge
Beaumont-en-Auge | |
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 Town hall | |
.svg.png) Coat of arms | |
Location of Beaumont-en-Auge | |
  Beaumont-en-Auge Location within France  Beaumont-en-Auge Location within Normandy | |
| Coordinates: 49°16′44″N 0°06′38″E / 49.2789°N 0.1106°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Calvados |
| Arrondissement | Lisieux |
| Canton | Pont-l'Évêque |
| Intercommunality | CC Terre d'Auge |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2021–2026) | Sylviane Ebrard[1] |
Area 1 | 7.98 km2 (3.08 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 376 |
| • Density | 47.1/km2 (122/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 14055 /14950 |
| Elevation | 29–146 m (95–479 ft) (avg. 125 m or 410 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Beaumont-en-Auge (French pronunciation: [bomɔ̃ ɑ̃.n‿oʒ] ⓘ, literally Beaumont in Auge) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. The town hosts one of the last kaleidoscope manufacturers in France.
Population
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Notable people
- Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher.[5]
- Jean-Charles Langlois (1789–1870), soldier and military commander during the Napoleonic Wars, painter of battles.
See also
- The brilliance of Beaumont-en-Auge; vintage and current images of the village with a short biography of Laplace
- Communes of the Calvados department
References
- ↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
- ↑ "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
- ↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Beaumont-en-Auge, EHESS (in French).
- ↑ Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE
- ↑ Clerke, Agnes Mary (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). pp. 200–202.
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