Le vast
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| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Some | |
| Arrondissement | Cherbourg | |
| Canton | Val-de-Saire | |
| Community association | Cotentine | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 37 ′ N , 1 ° 21 ′ W | |
| height | 21-121 m | |
| surface | 13.04 km 2 | |
| Residents | 324 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 25 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 50630 | |
| INSEE code | 50619 | |
.JPG) Notre-Dame church |
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Le Vast is a commune 324 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Manche in the region of Normandy .
Toponymy
Wasteland or arid land from the Latin vastum . Vast is the Norman form, while Gast (see Le Gast , Saint-Denis-le-Gast , Saint-Aubin-de-Terregatte and Saint-Laurent-de-Terregatte ) is the French form. The equivalent of vastum is in English waste in German desert . See Brillevast , Vasteville , Martinvast , Tollevast , Hardinvast and Sottevast on the Cotentin Peninsula .
geography
Le Vast is located on the Cotentin peninsula in the Val de Saire countryside . It is at the intersection of the Valognes - Barfleur and Cherbourg - Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue roads .
With the uneven terrain, the Saire River , the waterfalls, the forests and the houses, Le Vast is a picturesque village.
Geology and history
Le Vast is located in the Armorican massif . There you can find rocks from the Proterozoic , i.e. Briovérien . The clay turns out to be beneficial for the willows.
In 1803, Philippe Fontenilliat set up a cotton mill that employed 600 workers.
Attractions
- Notre-Dame church: choir from the end of the 14th century, stained glass windows from the 15th century (included in the List of Historic Monuments).
- La Germonière castle and its park (included in the list of historical monuments)
- Castle of Le Vast
- 19th century organ (added to the list of historical monuments).
- water falls
Personalities
- Michel Le Tellier (1643 au Vast - 1719), Jesuite, last confessor of King Louis XIV.
- Philippe-François Fontenilliat (1757–1827 in Le Vast), founder of the spinning mill.
- Louis-Hippolyte Rangeard de La Germonière (1807–1887), politician, crank in Le Vast.
- Jac Lem (Joseph Lemonnier) (1914 in Le Vast - 1995), painter.
- Lucien Lepoittevin (1932–2010), history and architecture teacher, draftsman and painter, specialist of Jean François Millet .
Le Vast in the film
In 1979, Roman Polański shot some scenes from Tess d'Urberville in Le Vast.
La cascade sur la Saire.
Le chateau de La Germonière.
Web links
- Altitudes, coordonnées, superficie : répertoire géographique des communes 2012 (site de l'IGN, téléchargement du 24 octobre 2013)
Individual evidence
- ^ René Lepelley: Dictionnaire étymologique des communes de Normandie. Presses universitaires de Caen, ISBN 2-905461-80-2 , p. 264.
- ↑ Waste website Online etymology dictionary
- ^ Jean-François Moyen: Les grands traits de l'histoire géologique de la France (métropolitaine). (PDF) Version 3.1, 2005 (French). P. 14.