Saint-Gilles, Manche

Saint-Gilles
Saint-Gilles
Commune
	The village and its church
	Location of Saint-Gilles
	Saint-Gilles Saint-Gilles
	Coordinates: 49°06′20″N 1°10′27″W / 49.1056°N 1.1742°W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Manche
Arrondissement	Saint-Lô
Canton	Saint-Lô-1
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-Luc Lerouxel
Area 1	7.84 km2 (3.03 sq mi)
Population (2021)	985
• Density	130/km2 (330/sq mi)
Demonym	Saint-Gillais
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	50483 /50180
Elevation	12–104 m (39–341 ft) ; (avg. 101 m or 331 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Gilles is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. In 1848 John Ruskin and his new wife, the former Effie Gray, visited St Gilles. Ruskin noted "The Church of Saint Giles has some remarkable examples of the final stage of transition from flamboyant to Renaissance".^[2]

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INSEE commune file

^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ The Diaries of John Ruskin, 1848-1873 selected and edited by Joan Evans and John Howard Whitehouse, Oxford at the Clarendon press, 1958

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[popleg2021-1] "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.

[2] The Diaries of John Ruskin, 1848-1873 selected and edited by Joan Evans and John Howard Whitehouse, Oxford at the Clarendon press, 1958

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