La Bouille
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Notable people

  • Writer Hector Malot
    Hector Malot
    Hector 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 warehouse
    Gabelle
    The 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

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