Pont-Audemer

Pont-Audemer
Pont-Audemer
Commune
	Pont-Audemer: Rue de la République
	Coat of arms
	Location of Pont-Audemer
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	Coordinates: 49°22′N 0°31′E / 49.36°N 0.51°ECoordinates: 49°22′N 0°31′E / 49.36°N 0.51°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Eure
Arrondissement	Bernay
Canton	Pont-Audemer
Intercommunality	Pont-Audemer / Val de Risle
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Michel Leroux
Area 1	14.66 km2 (5.66 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	10,120
• Density	690/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	27467 /27500
Elevation	2–115 m (6.6–377.3 ft) ; (avg. 9 m or 30 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Pont-Audemer (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃.t‿odmɛʁ]) is a commune in the Eure department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2018, the former commune of Saint-Germain-Village was merged into Pont-Audemer.^[2]

Geography[]

The commune is situated on the river Risle, 13 km upstream from its outflow into the Seine. It lies on the border between the regions Roumois and Lieuvin.

Population[]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	4,599	—
1800	5,207	+13.2%
1806	5,386	+3.4%
1821	5,426	+0.7%
1831	5,305	−2.2%
1836	5,358	+1.0%
1841	5,497	+2.6%
1846	5,733	+4.3%
1851	6,310	+10.1%
1856	6,106	−3.2%
1861	6,136	+0.5%
1866	6,182	+0.7%
1872	6,124	−0.9%
1876	5,942	−3.0%
1881	6,168	+3.8%
1886	6,163	−0.1%
1891	6,084	−1.3%

Year	Pop.	±%
1896	6,012	−1.2%
1901	5,908	−1.7%
1906	6,111	+3.4%
1911	6,123	+0.2%
1921	5,946	−2.9%
1926	5,953	+0.1%
1931	5,860	−1.6%
1936	6,279	+7.2%
1946	6,119	−2.5%
1954	6,724	+9.9%
1962	8,206	+22.0%
1968	8,969	+9.3%
1975	9,586	+6.9%
1982	9,750	+1.7%
1990	8,975	−7.9%
1999	8,979	+0.0%
2008	8,675	−3.4%

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 Renaissance stained glass.

Personalities[]

Laetitia Casta, supermodel, was born there in 1978.
Hervé Morin, politician, current French Minister of Defence was born there in 1961.
Alexis Vastine, boxer, was born there in 1986.

Transport[]

Pont-Audemer has a railway station, Gare de Pont-Audemer, but passenger services were ceased in 1969. The station is served by TER Haute-Normandie buses. PontAuRail, a heritage railway association, ran two Diesel multiple units (a X4500 and a X2400) from Pont-Audemer to Honfleur between 1995 and 2006.

Administration[]

Until 1926, Pont-Audemer was a sub-prefecture of the Eure department.

Media[]

The city is evoked in a poem of Paul Verlaine called "The Apollo of Pont-Audemer." The area is included in Ted Fahrenwald's book "Bailout Over Normandy: A Flyboy's Adventures" as the site where he met Riri, his sweetheart.