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Fourches is a common French, located in the department of the Calvados and the area Basse-Normandie.

Geography

Prefecture: Caen Area: Lower Normandy Department: Apple-brandy (14) Zip code: 14620 Population (in 1999): 151 inhabitants Surface: 478 hectares Altitude 100 meters Resources and productions: Cereals, beet. Historical general information: " Virlouvet" and both " Hébert" were famous poets chansonniers in the area. Civil architecture: Remainders of feudal castle. Structure crowned: Church with remainders of Romance time: vault 15th, retable 1810, fine antependium 17th, signed Deposition Crespin, 1874, copy of Rubens, holy Catherine polychrome low-relief 16th, stalls 18th. Two examples of leisures: count of ping pong. ground of game of bowls.

History

Administration

Town hall of Forks Name of the mayor: Marius FOLLONIER Information on the mayor of Forks, click here The Borough 14620 FORKS Tel.: 0231408011 Opening of the town hall: Wednesday of 17:00 to 19:00. Historical test (Printing works of the newspaper of the Flowering ash 1886).

Historical test

Forks.

Our old provinces, Normandy is the only one which produced as many facts célèbreset interesting to know: The least hamlet has its history.

The tourist who passes avid all to see and all to know, remains sometimes S.O.S the charm of some historical fact which it collected.

The centuries followed one another tumultuous, carrying with them invaluable memories, the wars and the disorders often destroyed the records of the history, but at all events what us remainder can still throw some light.

Putting in action the old proverb of wise the " And we satisfy are humble with peu" I will try to outline on some pages the history of a humble commune, with well few documents, but it is better little to know that too much to be unaware of.

I want to speak about the commune of Forks; in the old titles it appears under the names Furca, Furcae, or of Furcis, Furcas; It is claimed that it draws its name from what its territory finishes at midday by two species of branches fourchues.

Its hamlets are: Large-of-Forks, Mesnil-of-Forks, End-with-Drapers, the Beautiful-End, Smooth, the Marsh and Deravine. Printing works Of the newspaper of the Flowering ash, 1886.

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Apple-brandy

External bonds

Forks on the site of INSEE
Forks on the site of Quid
Localization of Forks on a chart of France and communes bordering

Only space devoted to the commune of Forks. Create by an inhabitant of Forks.]

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