Tôtes

Tôtes
Tôtes
Location within Upper Normandy region Tôtes
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Tôtes
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes des Trois Rivières
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Jean-Yves Billoré
Area1	7.61 km2 (2.94 sq mi)
Population (2011)2	1,457
• Density	190/km2 (500/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76700 / 76890
Elevation	138–172 m (453–564 ft) (avg. 158 m or 518 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.

Tôtes is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in north-western France.

Geography

A farming small market town situated in the Pays de Caux, some 19 miles (31 km) south of Dieppe at the junction of the D 927 and the D 929 roads, formerly route nationale 27 and route nationale 29. Prior to the construction of the autoroute system, it was a strategically important crossroads.

Heraldry

The arms of Tôtes are blazoned : Per pale 1: Gules, 3 geese argent and 2: per fess Or and azure, 3 hammers reversed gules and 3 crosslets argent; overall an inescutcheon Or, on a chief azure, 3 mullets of 5 Or.

Population

Population history

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2008	2011
826	819	848	956	1059	1084	1285	1330	1457
Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

• The church, dating from the nineteenth century.
• The nineteenth century château.
• The Auberge du Cygne, an inn and staging post of the 15th century.

People

• Guy de Maupassant and Gustave Flaubert, French writers, stayed regularly at the inn.

Twin towns

• Bleckede, Germany, since 1977.
• Monreal del Campo, Spain

See also

• The Auberge du Cygnes(French)
• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
• Seine-Maritime
• Normandy

References

• INSEE

External links

• Tôtes on the Quid website (French)