Thierville

Thierville

Thierville

Commune in Normandy, France

Thierville (French pronunciation: [tjɛʁvil]) is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. It is around 30 km south-west of Rouen city centre, and around 130 km north west of Paris.

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Thierville is remarkable as one of only 12 villages in all of France with no men lost from World War I.[3] Even more remarkably, Thierville also suffered no losses in the Franco-Prussian War and World War II,[4] nor in the First Indochina War nor the Algerian War. All the soldiers who took part in these five wars came back home.[5]

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  1. [1]
    "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
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    Grégory Bozonnet, La sécurité. La mémoire, Armand Colin, 2016, p. 87.
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    Jérôme Duhamel (Paris 1990). Grand Inventaire du Génie Français, p.196: "Between 1919 and 1925, a war memorial was erected in every community in France, with one single exception: the village of Thierville in the department of the Eure, the only French village which had no dead to mourn, not in 1870, nor in 14-18, nor in 39-45"
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    Kelly, Jon. "Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars". News Magazine. BBC. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
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