Thierville

Commune in Normandy, France

Coat of arms

Location of Thierville

(2020–2026) Bertrand Simon^[1]Area

3.6 km² (1.4 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

370 • Density100/km² (270/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

27631 /27290

Elevation60–144 m (197–472 ft)
(avg. 145 m or 476 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Thierville (French pronunciation: [tjɛʁvil]) is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. It is around 30 km south-west of Rouen city centre, and around 130 km north west of Paris.

Thierville is remarkable as one of only 12 villages in all of France with no men lost from World War I.^[3] Even more remarkably, Thierville also suffered no losses in the Franco-Prussian War and World War II,^[4] nor in the First Indochina War nor the Algerian War. All the soldiers who took part in these five wars came back home.^[5]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	192	—
1968	195	+1.6%
1975	198	+1.5%
1982	231	+16.7%
1990	242	+4.8%
1999	218	−9.9%
2008	287	+31.7%

Personalities

Probable birthplace of Theobald of Bec, archbishop of Canterbury

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Grégory Bozonnet, La sécurité. La mémoire, Armand Colin, 2016, p. 87.
^ Jérôme Duhamel (Paris 1990). Grand Inventaire du Génie Français, p.196: "Between 1919 and 1925, a war memorial was erected in every community in France, with one single exception: the village of Thierville in the department of the Eure, the only French village which had no dead to mourn, not in 1870, nor in 14-18, nor in 39-45"
^ Kelly, Jon. "Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars". News Magazine. BBC. Retrieved 13 March 2014.