Veules-les-Roses
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Location within Normandy region
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| Coordinates: 49°52′27″N 0°48′01″E / 49.8742°N 0.8003°ECoordinates: 49°52′27″N 0°48′01″E / 49.8742°N 0.8003°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Normandy | |
| Department | Seine-Maritime | |
| Arrondissement | Dieppe | |
| Canton | Saint-Valery-en-Caux | |
| Intercommunality | Côte d'Albâtre | |
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| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Jean-Claude Claire | |
| Area1 | 5.19 km2 (2.00 sq mi) | |
| Population (2006)2 | 601 | |
| • Density | 120/km2 (300/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 76735 / 76980 | |
| Elevation | 0–79 m (0–259 ft) (avg. 12 m or 39 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.
Veules-les-Roses is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.
A tourism and farming village situated on the coast of the English Channel in the Pays de Caux, some 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Dieppe at the junction of the D68, D926 and the D142.
The river Veules, which flows through the commune, is the shortest sea-bound river of France at 1.194 kilometres (0.742 mi). Its water is used to create ponds for growing watercress whence it finds its way to the sea through a gap in the high chalk cliffs, which overlook a sand and pebble beach.
Many artists have come here to paint, such as Anaïs Aubert, Étienne Mélingue, Henri Harpignies, Paul Meurice, Samuel Peploe and John Duncan Fergusson of the Scottish Colourists school, Ilya Repin and Alexey Bogolyubov of the Russian Peredvizhniki school. Writers include Leroux and Eugène Pierron, Alexandre Dumas fils, Lockroy, José-Maria de Heredia, Henri Rochefort, Alexis Bouvier, Jules Michelet and Victor Hugo, poets Jean Richepin and François Coppée, dramatists Jules Claretie, Henri Lavedan and Émile Bergerat and the composer Alexandre Georges. Politicians such as Henri Maret, Alexandre Millerand, René Viviani, Louis Malvy, Albert Clemenceau and Pierre Taittinger came here for the sea air. Victor Boucher, Georges Chamarat, Saint-Granier, the writer Maurice Privat, Dominique Bonnaud as well as sports personalities Suzanne Lenglen and Lucien Gaudin.
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