Livarot
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Location within Normandy region
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| Coordinates: 49°00′27″N 0°09′12″E / 49.0075°N 0.1533°ECoordinates: 49°00′27″N 0°09′12″E / 49.0075°N 0.1533°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Normandy | |
| Department | Calvados | |
| Arrondissement | Lisieux | |
| Canton | Livarot | |
| Intercommunality | Pays de Livarot | |
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| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Sébastien Leclerc | |
| Area1 | 12.09 km2 (4.67 sq mi) | |
| Population (2008)2 | 2,309 | |
| • Density | 190/km2 (490/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 14371 / 14140 | |
| Elevation | 52–184 m (171–604 ft) (avg. 64 m or 210 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.
Livarot is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Livarot-Pays-d'Auge.
The population is composed of 2,183 inhabitants and the name of its inhabitants is Livarotais.
The town is home to many companies of renowned such as the Georges Leroy factory, Graindorge cheese manufacturing which produces Livarot, among others. The commune gave its name to its cheese; Livarot cheese. The La Fermière (CCLF) calvados cider is also produced in the commune.
Livarot is situated at the junction of the D4 and D579 roads. The nearest city is Caen, approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) to the north-west.
The place is attested late in the form Livarrot in 1155, and Livar(r)ou in 1156 or 1157.
The etymological explanation of this place name has no unanimity among toponymists:
On 17 July 1944, the pharmacist and Mayor of Livarot, brought first aid to Rommel following the strafing of his car by an Allied aircraft, not far away, between the villages of Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery and Vimoutiers. He was then evacuated, the same day, to the German military hospital in Bernay.
Livarot was liberated on 19 August. Following Operation Paddle, the British 7th Armoured Division was on the banks of the Vie. The division then faced a strong resistance by the 272nd Division of the German infantry, but also suffered losses to friendly fire from Allied aircraft. On 19 August, British artillery heavily bombed the area. The British arrived to seize a bridge, which hadn't been destroyed, across the river to Saint-Michel-de-Livet, north of Livarot. The French Resistance then learned that the Germans had abandoned Livarot and that the first British soldiers had entered the same day.
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