Pont-Audemer

Commune of Pont-Audemer
Location
Coordinates	49° 21' 18" N 00° 30' 53" E
Administration
Country	France
Region	Haute-Normandie
Department	Eure
Arrondissement	Bernay
Canton	Pont-Audemer (chief town)
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de Pont-Audemer
Mayor	Gaston Lecureur (2001-2008)
Statistics
Altitude	2 m–115 m (avg. 9 m)
Land area¹	9.35 km²
Population² (1999)	8,981 (Pont-Audemériens)
- Density	960/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	27467/ 27500
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Pont-Audemer is a commune and the chief town of a canton of the département of Eure, in the Haute-Normandie région of Normandy, in France.

Geography

The commune is situated on the Risle between the Roumois and the Lieuvin.

Sights

The commune was spared substantial damage to its historic buildings during the Battle of Normandy. Nowadays the half-timbered buildings and the canals running between them are a tourist attraction. The church of Saint-Ouen is noted for its Renaissaince stained glass.

Pont-Audemer Station.

Famous Pont-Audemériens

• Laetitia Casta, supermodel, was born there in 1978
• Hervé Morin, politician, current French Minister of Defence was born there in 1961

Transport

Pont-Audemer has no rail services but the station building remains open and sells rail tickets. PontAuRail, a preserved railway, runs two Diesel multiple units (a X4500 and a X2400) from Pont-Audemer to Honfleur.

The X2426 at Pont-Audemer Station.

Miscellaneous

Until 1926, Pont-Audemer was the seat of a sous-préfecture of the Eure département.

Its coat of arms is a four arch bridge over a river argent in chief azure three fleur-de-lis or.

The city is evoked in a poem of Paul Verlaine called The Apollo of Pont-Audemer.

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