Jonquerets-de-Livet
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Former presshouse
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 Les Jonquerets-de-Livet
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Location within Normandy region
Les Jonquerets-de-Livet
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| Coordinates: 49°01′20″N 0°36′33″E / 49.0222°N 0.6092°ECoordinates: 49°01′20″N 0°36′33″E / 49.0222°N 0.6092°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Normandy | |
| Department | Eure | |
| Arrondissement | Bernay | |
| Canton | Bernay | |
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| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Michèle Benard | |
| Area1 | 10.28 km2 (3.97 sq mi) | |
| Population (2008)2 | 285 | |
| • Density | 28/km2 (72/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 27356 /27410 | |
| Elevation | 163–181 m (535–594 ft) (avg. 134 m or 440 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Les Jonquerets-de-Livet is a former commune in the Eure department in Normandy, France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Mesnil-en-Ouche. It incorporates the village of Livet-en-Ouche, once known simply as Livet.
Mentioned as Lived in the 11th century.
For "L'ivet" with article agglutination. (Northern) French if (Yew-tree) and suffixe -etu(m) > -ey / -oy /-ay > -aie, used to mean "collection of trees", so that Livet means "yew grove" (l'ivaie in modern French).
The qualificative of the former name -en-Ouche, means "in the Pays d'Ouche", a traditional region of Normandy, to make the difference with other Livets, like Livet-sur-Authou.
In 1845, the commune was incorporated in a new one, together with Les Jonquerets (Les Junchereiz 1209 "The brooms place"), called Les Jonquerets de Livet.
The de Livet family, feudal under-tenants of the barony of the de Ferrières family (centered on that family's seat at Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire, located a scant four miles from Jonquerets-de-Livet), originated in Livet-en-Ouche. Descendants of one branch of this family became the Marquises of Barville in France (de Livet de Barville).
The Norman French branch of the de Livet family counts among its members early knights (chevaliers), church officials (including Guillaume de Livet, a judge at the trial of Joan of Arc),Canon of Rouen Robert de Livet (who excommunicated King Henry V of England during his siege of Rouen, after which de Livet was imprisoned for five years in England) chevalier banneret Jean de Livet (standard bearer to King Philip II of France in 1215) and early Crusaders. Many de Livet family members were associated with the Knights Hospitallers, a medieval chivalric order founded to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land.
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