Veulettes-sur-Mer

Veulettes-sur-Mer
Veulettes-sur-Mer
Commune
	A general view of Veulettes-sur-Mer
	Coat of arms
	Location of Veulettes-sur-Mer
	Veulettes-sur-Mer Veulettes-sur-Mer
	Coordinates: 49°50′52″N 0°35′49″E / 49.8478°N 0.5969°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Saint-Valery-en-Caux
Intercommunality	CC Côte d'Albâtre
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Françoise Guillot
Area 1	4.71 km2 (1.82 sq mi)
Population (2006)	336
• Density	71/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76736 /76450
Elevation	0–81 m (0–266 ft) ; (avg. 10 m or 33 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Veulettes-sur-Mer is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A tourism and farming village situated on the coast of the English Channel in the Pays de Caux, some 27 miles (43 km) southwest of Dieppe at the junction of the D79 and the D271. The Durdent river flows to the sea here through the pebble beach (the longest in the department at 2 km) and huge chalk cliffs which rise up to face the sea .

Heraldry

Arms of Veulettes-sur-Mer	The arms of Veulettes-sur-Mer are blazoned : Azure, in fess 2 roses Or and in pale a crescent and a heart with a cross on top argent (those 4 charges in a lozenge formation), and in chief a label argent.

Population

Historical population of Veulettes-sur-Mer
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	439	363	342	369	299	296	336
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

The church of St. Valery, dating from the twelfth century.
A sixteenth-century stone cross.
The cliffs.

People

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (1924–2006) journalist, essayist and politician lived here.

External links

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