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the Mirror factory is a common French, located in the department of the Manche and the area Basse-Normandie.

Geography

The commune is located at the south-east of Cherbourg-Octeville. Crossed by the valleys of Trottebec and the Divette, the commune is strongly urbanized with the access of the old layout of RN 13, but still rural around the village of the glassmakers, or village of the church.

History

This commune is resulting from its scission in 1901 of the village of the glassmakers from with Tourlaville.

Indeed, in 1655, Richard Lucas de Néhou built a factory of glass and ices, which will provide in particular the Galerie of the Ices of the Château of Versailles. Closed in 1834, manufacture was completely destroyed during the allied bombardments of 1944, except for the vault, converted into dwelling.

Administration

Demography

Economy

The economic main resource comes from the retail parks of the Bank with Brooms and Marettes, around the regional shopping mall Cotentin and of the Auchan hypermarket.

Places and monuments

  • Village of the Church: historical village of the glassmakers.

  • Hippodrome
  • Museum of the Mirror factory in a renovated farm of the 19th century

Personalities related to the commune

  • Richard Lucas, sior of Néhou: Glass gentleman who takes in hand the small manufacture of Tourlaville (1655), and develops it in Royal Manufacture of the Ices
  • Henri Menut (Paris, 1841 - Cherbourg, 1924): first mayor of the Mirror factory, 1901 to 1919. Mayor of Tourlaville between 1890 and 1892, it is at the origin of the creation of the commune and the museum of the manufacture royal of the ices, open in 1913 and destroyed during the bombardments of June 1944. Decorated with many times, it in particular received the chivalric insignias of the Légion of honor in 1909. Today, its medals, as well as vestiges of the old museum, appear in the Museum of the Mirror factory.
  • Maurice Cabart Danneville (1886 - 1942), Doctor and Senator of the English Channel of 1930 to 1940. It is buried in the cemetery of the Mirror factory.
  • Louis-Emile Bertin (Nancy, 1840 - the Mirror factory, 1924), general engineer of the Marine engineering and erudite of universal fame, member of the Institute, creator of the navy military of Japan and the arsenals of Kure and Sasebo, deceased and buried with the Mirror factory.

See too

  • Common of the English Channel
  • the Divette.

External bonds

  • Official site of the town hall
  • the Mirror factory on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • the Mirror factory on the site of INSEE
  • the Mirror factory on the site of Quid
  • Localization of the Mirror factory on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane of the Mirror factory on Mapquest

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