Place:Doudeville, Seine-Maritime, France

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NameDoudeville
TypeCommune
Coordinates49.717°N 0.783°E
Located inSeine-Maritime, France
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Doudeville is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

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At Doudeville, the General Assemblies of linen producers were held regularly - which is where the idea of Doudeville's claim to be linen capital arose. In the nineteenth century, there was a trade in linen cloth and canvas; enough to employ 8,000 people in ten businesses in the region.

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Literary connection

Guy de Maupassant set a good number of his stories in this region. "The yard of the farm, enclosed by trees, seemed to sleep ... The shade of the apple trees gathered itself round their feet and the thatched roofs of the buildings at the summit of which grew irises ..." from The Story of a Farm Girl (Histoire d'une fille de ferme) by Guy de Maupassant in his short story collection La Maison Tellier. For more, see Pays de Caux.

In Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" Charles' father dies in Doudeville following a dinner with old military friends.

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