Conches-en-Ouche

• Name — Conches-en-Ouche • Commune Status — Commune • Arrondissement — Évreux • Canton — Conches-en-Ouche • Insee — 27165 • Postal Code — 27190 • Mayor — Jérôme Pasco • Term — 2020–2026 • Intercommunality — Pays de Conches • Elevation M — 123 • Elevation Min M — 100 • Elevation Max M — 173 • Area Km2 — 16.72

It is located by the Rouloir river, southwest of Évreux in the Normandy region. The town is located on a plateau known as the Pays d'Ouche.

• Château de Conches-en-Ouche, ruins of 11th-century castle • Church of St Faith (l'Église Sainte-Foy) • Abbaye Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Châtillon-lès-Conches • Arboretum • Folk museum

• William of Conches, medieval grammarian, philosopher and theologian of the School of Chartres. • Diderot set an episode of Jacques le fataliste et son maître (1773/1775) in Conches. • Victor-Amédée Barbié du Bocage (1832–1890), renowned geographer and essayist, died in the Château de Quenet on 11 October 1890. • Paul Collin (1843–1915), writer and librettist, was born here. • François Décorchemont (1880–1971), master glassmaker who made the windows of numerous churches in the Eure and the Church of Sainte-Odile in Paris was born and died in Conches. • Alfred Recours, mayor of the town since 1984 and a former deputy for l'Eure. • Roger de Tosny I, medieval knight known as the Moor Eater

Conches-en-Ouche is twinned with: • Rhodes, Greece • Człuchów, Poland • Wareham, United Kingdom • Aulendorf, Germany

• Illustration — Gargoyles on Sainte-Foy • Illustration — Keep (donjon) built 1035 by Roger I of Tosny and destroyed 1591 in the French Wars of Religion • Illustration — Abbey (11th century) and hospital