Paluel

Paluel is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Paluel
Commune
Paluel Nuclear Power Plant
Coat of arms
Location of Paluel
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Coordinates: 49°50′01″N 0°37′44″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Saint-Valery-en-Caux
Intercommunality	CC Côte d'Albâtre
Government
• Mayor (2006–2008)	Bernard Piednoël
Area ^1	10.87 km^2 (4.20 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	432
• Density	40/km^2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76493 /76450
Elevation	0–96 m (0–315 ft) (avg. 9 m or 30 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

A village of farming and light industry situated by the banks of the river Durdent in the Pays de Caux at the junction of the D10, D68 and the D79 roads, some 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Dieppe.

History

The village owes its name to the marshes (in Latin "Palus"), in the lower valley of the Durdent.
A Roman mosaic was excavated in 1849 at a place known as the Rosy.
A church has existed here from 988, under the jurisdiction of the abbey at Fécamp.
The manor of Janville was given to the seigneurs of Paluel by Henri III in 1582.
There was a leper colony here until 1695.
The commune had 638 inhabitants in 1876.
The United States "Lucky Strike" army camp counted 300,000 inhabitants after the offensive against Germany during 1944/45.
In 1977, EDF, the French electricity company, built a nuclear power station, with 4 reactors of 1300MW each. It covers 200 hectares (490 acres) of land within the commune.

Population

Population history

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
368	389	364	443	383	416	459
Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

• The nuclear power station on the coast at Conteville.
• The seventeenth-century château de Janville, with its dovecote and park.
• The two 18th-century châteaux at Bertheauville and Conteville
• The chapel of Notre-Dame at Janville, dating from the thirteenth century.
• The church of St. Pierre, dating from the twelfth century.
• The church of St. Martin, dating from the thirteenth century.
• A sixteenth-century stone cross.

See also

• fr:Centrale nucléaire de Paluel The nuclear power station, in French.
• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.