Villequier

Villequier
Coat of arms
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon
Area1	11.1 km2 (4.3 sq mi)
Population (2019)2	682
• Density	61/km2 (160/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76742 / 76490
Elevation	0–147 m (0–482 ft) (avg. 6 m or 20 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Villequier (French pronunciation: ​[vilkje]) is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Rives-en-Seine.

Geography

A village of farming and forestry situated by the banks of the river Seine in the Pays de Caux, some 23 miles (37 km) west of Rouen near the junction of the D281 with the D81 road.

Heraldry

The arms of Villequier are blazoned : Gules, on a cross fleury between 12 billets Or, an anchor sable.

Population

Historical population of Villequier

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	740	773	752	769	822	808	788
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

Chateau of Etelan

• 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.

Auguste Vacquerie

People

• Victor Hugo (1802–1895), dramatist, spent much time here with his friends and family. His daughter Léopoldine Hugo drowned in Villequier in 1843.
• Auguste Vacquerie (1819–1895), poet and journalist, was born here and is buried here.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department