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Quettehou is a common French, located in the department of the Manche and the area Basse-Normandie.

Geography

Quettehou is a village located at the north-eastern point of the peninsula of the Cotentin in the middle of the Val of Saire between bay of Morsalines or the " Bottom of loup" and it wood of Rabey. It is bordered in the east by Saint-Vaast-the-Hougue, in the south by Morsalines, north by Anneville-in-Saire and the west by the wood of Rabey.

History

In the beginning, the Village of the Shore was an small group of dwellings on the coast. Following the Germanic invasions, Ysemberville - the village of Ysembert - is established with orée of the forest. Thereafter, the Vikings were installed on the height where the church is drawn up now, gave to their village the name of their chief, Ketil. With the wire of time, Ketilholm - the hill of Ketil - was transformed into Quettehou .

Administration

|- | align=right| 1808 - 1840 || Thomas Louis Viel ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1840 - 1840 || Jean Quentin ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1840 - 1848 || Louis the Knight ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1848 - 1876 || Eugene Duclouet ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1926 - 1945 || Alexandre Lecarpentier ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1945 - 1945 || Henri Tournaille ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1945 - 1947 || Raymond Lefèvre ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1947 - 1950 || Henri Féquet ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1950 - 1977 || Rene Mortain ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1977 - 1988 || Georges Bonnemains ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1988 - 1995 || Stopped Jean ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1995 - present || Charles Poisson ||align=" center" | || |}

Demography

Places and monuments

  • the Saint-Vigor church, dedicated to évèque of Bayeux of the same name. It was built in XIIe century and was finished in XIIIe. The bell-tower was built of 1485 to 1498. At the entry of the chorus is a vault built between 1612 and 1616 in the honor of Saint Jean-Baptiste. This vault is now dedicated to the " happy Placid Mother Viel" (1815-1877) which was béatifiée in the Basilique Saint-Pierre of Rome on May 6th, 1951. On the pillars of the side many graffiti are dating from the Bataille of Hougue.

Personalities related to the commune

  • Alfred Mouchel

Twinnings

Quettehou is twinned with
  • Erlabrunn (Germany)

See too

  • Common of the English Channel

External bonds

  • local Site on Quettehou and its neighborhoods
  • Quettehou on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Quettehou on the site of INSEE
  • Quettehou on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Quettehou on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Quettehou on Mapquest

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