Bazenville
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Bazenville (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.[2]
Bazenville Airfield was a former World War II Advanced Landing Ground, mostly located outside the commune of Bazenville 1.8 km to the north-east.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Bazenvillais or Bazenvillaises.[3]
Geography
Bazenville is located some 6 km east by north-east of Bayeux and 4 km south by south-east of Arromanches-les-Bains. Access to the commune is by the D87 road from Ryes in the north-west which passes through the commune south of the village and continues south-east to Villiers-le-Sec. The D112 from Sommervieu to Crépon forms the north-western border of the commune. Apart from the village there is the hamlet of Les Noyaux. There is a British Military Cemetery in the west of the commune on the D87. The commune is entirely farmland.[4][5]
Toponymy
Bazonille is mentioned as Basonni villa in 875.
Bazenville appears as Bazanville on the 1750 Cassini Map[6] and as Bazan ville on the 1790 version.[7]
History
Bazenville was liberated on the same day as the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944. An interim Canadian aerodrome (referred to as Bazenville Airfield, Advanced Landing Ground B-2 Bazenville, or B-2 Crépon) was built commencing the following night near the commune in a large part of the triangle formed by the Bazenville, Crépon, and Villiers-le-Sec villages.[8]
It was on this aerodrome that the French ace Pierre Clostermann flew, on 11 June 1944, for the first time in France after his entry into the war in 1942: "All my life I will remember the people of Bazenville the first French to whom I spoke".[9]
Administration
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| From | To | Name | Party | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 2005 | Pierre Vallerend | Farmer | |
| 2005 | 2026 | Marcel Dubois | Retired |
Demography
In 2017 the commune had 137 inhabitants.
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Culture and heritage
Civil heritage
- A Commemorative plaque remembering the site of the airfield where Pierre Clostermann arrived on 11 June 1944.
The commune has many buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments:
- A Farmhouse at Rue des Alliés (1759)Template:Mérimée Icon[11]
- A Tradesman's house at Rue des Cordiers (19th century)Template:Mérimée Icon[12]
- The Bazenville Farmhouse at Rue de l'Eglise (17th century)Template:Mérimée Icon[13]
- A House at Rue de l'Eglise (18th century)Template:Mérimée Icon[14]
- A Notable's House at Rue de l'Eglise (18th century)Template:Mérimée Icon[15]
- The Chateau of Bazenville at Rue de la Grotte (17th century)Template:Mérimée Icon[16]
- The Manor of Tournebu at Rue des Noyaux (17th century)Template:Mérimée Icon[17]
- A Worker's House at Route de Villiers-le-Sec (19th century)Template:Mérimée Icon[18]
- The Chateau de la Croix at Route de Villiers-le-Sec (1727)Template:Mérimée Icon[19]
- The British Cemetery of Ryes (20th century).Template:Mérimée Icon[20] The cemetery contains 979 graves: 630 British, 21 Canadians, one Australian, one Pole, and 326 Germans.
- The War Memorial (1929)Template:Mérimée Icon[21]
- The Grotto of Lourdes (1947)Template:Mérimée Icon[22]
- Bazenville Village (Ancient times)Template:Mérimée Icon[23]
- Houses (17th-19th century)Template:Mérimée Icon[24]
Religious heritage
The commune has several religious buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments:
- A Presbytery at Rue de l'Eglise (19th century)Template:Mérimée Icon[25]
- The Parish Church of Saint-Martin at le Bourg (13th century)Template:Mérimée Icon[26][27] The Church contains a large number of objects which are registered as historical objects.[26][27]
Heritage Picture Gallery
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The British Military Cemetery in Bazenville
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The Chateau of Bazenville
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The Grotto of Lourdes
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The Church of Saint Martin
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The Chateau de la Croix
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Notable people linked to the commune
- Antoine Halley, born in 1593 at Bazenville died in 1675, poet.
See also
References
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- ↑ Inhabitants of Calvados Template:In lang
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- ↑ Bazenville on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website Template:In lang
- ↑ Bazanville on the 1750 Cassini Map
- ↑ Bazan ville on the 1790 Cassini Map
- ↑ Abandoned Airfields in Lower Normandy Template:Webarchive Template:In lang
- ↑ Claude Quétel (under the direction of), Dictionary of the Landings, éditions Ouest-France, Rennes, 2011, 725 pages, p. 174 "Clostermann (Pierre)", Template:ISBN Template:In lang
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