La Bouille
Encyclopedia
Notable people
- Writer Hector MalotHector MalotHector Malot was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale.His first book, published in 1859, was Les...
was born here in 1830. - French actor Albert Lambert.
- La Bouille has been the subject of landscapes by Turner, Gauguin, Albert Lebourg, Robert Antoine Pinchon and Henri Vignet.
Places of interest
- The church of St. Madeleine, dating from the sixteenth century.
- A sixteenth century salt warehouseGabelleThe gabelle was a very unpopular tax on salt in France before 1790. The term gabelle derives from the Italian gabella , itself from the Arabic qabala....
. - Several lesser buildings dating from the thirteenth century.
- The Château Albert Lambert.
- The seventeenth century château de l'Ermitage