Conches Explained

Conches is the plural form of conch, a type of mollusk. It may also refer to:

Places in France

Conches-en-Ouche, a commune in the Eure département in northern France near Évreux
- Château de Conches-en-Ouche, a ruined castle in the commune of Conches-en-Ouche
Conches-sur-Gondoire, a commune on the Gondoire river in Brie, in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region near Paris
Conques, a former commune in the Aveyron department in southern France, in the Midi-Pyrénées region, location of the famous abbey, now part of Conques-en-Rouergue

Raoul IV de Conches born Ralph de Tosny (before 1080 – 1126), a Norman nobleman
Isabel of Conches, wife of Ralph of Tosny
William of Conches (c. 1090 – after 1154), French scholastic philosopher who sought to expand the bounds of Christian humanism by studying secular works of the classics and fostering empirical science
Peter of Courtenay, Lord of Conches (c. 1218 – 1249 or 1250), French knight and a member of the Capetian House of Courtenay, a cadet line of the royal House of Capet
Félix-Sébastien Feuillet de Conches (1798-1887), French diplomat, journalist, writer and collector