Giverny

Giverny is a common department of the the Eure, in the area High-Normandy. Givernois reside there.

Geography

Located at approximately 5 km in the east of Vernon to the Confluent of the the Seine and the Epte.

History

Giverny is a Celtic name of origin. The parish was founded under the Mérovingiens and the church placed under the term of holy Radegonde.

In 863 the king Charles II the Bald person recognized with the monks of the abbey of Saint-Denis-the-Close the possession of Giverny.

At the 11th century, the stronghold and the church of Giverny returned to the abbey of Ouen Saint to Rouen. With the the Middle Ages, several lords succéfèrent themselves but they remained always the vassal ones of the prior of Ouen Saint.

There then existed several monasteries, one of them was located at the site of the house known as Moûtier , while the property known as Dîme owes its name with a barn dîmière which was used as place of perception of the tax until the Révolution. Indeed, the tenth of all the agricultural productions returned to the Rouennaise abbey.

There was also a leper-house.

With the Revolution, it is the family Lorier which had the grounds of Giverny. Mr Lorier was besides the first mayor of the village in 1791.

More recently:

1883 : Claude Monet settles in the village. It there died in 1926 and is buried in the cemetery which is next to the church.
June 30th 1996: Hillary Clinton comes to inaugurate the Museum of American Art.

Administration

Demography

Graph of the evolution of the population 1794-1999

Places and monuments

the Holy-Radegonde church
the museum of American art
the house and gardens of Claude Monet
the old Baudy Hotel and its rosery, where the painters

met

Events

Chamber music in Giverny (fine international festival of Chamber music August - beginning September)

Eminent personalities related to the commune

Leni Escudero (or Leny Escudero) (° the November 5th 1932), French singer, reside of the village.
Rene Mayer (1895 - 1972) old President of the Council, old Minister, writer.
Claude Monet, painter French founder of the Impressionnisme is deceased there the December 5th 1926.
Jean-Marie Toulgouat (° with Giverny the September 15th 1927 - † with Giverny on January 10th, 2006), painter.
Thierry Huau (° the April 25th 1958), Landscape gardener town planner implied in very many national and international building sites, of Paris with Antananarivo, Auckland with Hannoi (Interscène Company).

Periphrases indicating Giverny

the village of the painters , in the course of classification with the common neighbor of Vernon on the list of the world heritage of UNESCO

See too

Vernon, common neighbor in the course of classification with Giverny on the list of the world heritage of UNESCO.
List of periphrases indicating of the cities.

External bonds

Giverny News
cultural and tourist Information
tourist and artistic Information Giverny-village
Exposures: appointments with the topicality with Giverny
Foundation Claude Monet
Photo Gallery of Giverny
Giverny and Monet
the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny
Giverny 360 panoramas
Giverny on the site of the national geographical Institute
Giverny on the site of INSEE
Giverny on the site of Quid
the communes closest to Giverny
Giverny on Mapquest
Giverny on Viamichelin

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