Pays d'Ouche

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Map of the Pays d'Ouche, 1716

The Pays d'Ouche is a landscape of Normandy in the north-east of the Orne department and the south-west of the Eure department .

geography

Its center is the Risle valley above Beaumont-le-Roger . The Pays d'Ouche is bounded by the Charentonne in the west, the Iton in the east, the Avre in the south and in the north by a fictitious line between Évreux , Beaumont-le-Roger and Bernay . In the west it touches the Pays d'Auge ( Pagus Algiae) and in the south the Perche . The main locations are: L'Aigle , Bernay, Breteuil , Conches-en-Ouche and Rugles . The soil is rich in silica , clay minerals, and sand, and is occasionally covered with silt .

history

The area of ​​the Pays d'Ouche corresponds to the archdeaconate Ouche, the pagus uticensis . The name Ouche is composed of the Indo-European root word ot- or ut- ('forest area') and the Celtic place-name ending * -ika (compare * are-mor-ika ).

economy

The region is mainly used for agriculture. There are relatively poor soils and large forests ( Breteuil , Conches-en-Ouche ). Cattle breeding is an important line of business.

literature

  • Stéphane Gomant: La Société rurale dans le Pays d'Ouche à la fin du 18e siècle, Mutations et permanences des structures socioéconomiques dans le canton de la Ferté-Fresnel, 1770-1830 , sous la direction de Jean-Marc Moriceau, University of Caen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gilles Rossignol: Yours . La Renaissance du Livre, Tournai 2001, ISBN 978-2-8046-0507-0 , pp. 193-208 . (French)
  2. ^ Dominique Cliquet: L'Eure . 27. In: Michel Provost, Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Ministere de la culture (ed.): Carte Archéologique de la Gaule . Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-87754-018-9 , Introduction, p. 34 . (French)
  3. ^ Johann Georg Theodor Grasse : Orbis latinus . List of the Latin names of the most famous cities etc. CA Werner, Dresden 1861, p. 201 ( in Google Books [accessed March 12, 2010]).
  4. ↑ Les noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de l'Eure . François de Beaurepaire. Editions Picard 1981. p. 155.