Hattenville

Hattenville
Hattenville
Location within Upper Normandy region Hattenville
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Le Havre
Canton	Fauville-en-Caux
Intercommunality	Cœur de Caux
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Jean-François Mayer
Area1	9.32 km2 (3.60 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	652
• Density	70/km2 (180/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76342 / 76640
Elevation	113–139 m (371–456 ft) (avg. 120 m or 390 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Hattenville is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

The most famous reference to Hattenville is in Paul Cézanne's painting 'Farm in Normandy, Summer'. This was painted at the farm of one of Cézanne's friends, very near Hattenville.

Geography

A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Le Havre, at the junction of the D28 and D217 roads.

Heraldry

The arms of Hattenville are blazoned : Per chevron argent and gules, a balance sable and a trowel bendwise argent, and on a chief azure a lion between 2 pierced mullets Or.

Population

Historical population of Hattenville

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	359	409	325	419	468	552	652
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-Pierre, dating from the eleventh century.
• A fourteenth-century stone cross.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
• Seine-Maritime
• Normandy

References

• INSEE

External links

• Hattenville on the Quid website (French)
• More information about the Cezanne painting