Tôtes Explained

Tôtes
Commune Status:	Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:	Blason Tôtes.svg
Arrondissement:	Dieppe
Canton:	Luneray
Insee:	76700
Postal Code:	76890
Mayor:	Jean-Yves Billoré^[1]
Term:	2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:	CC Terroir de Caux
Coordinates:	49.6794°N 1.0478°W
Elevation M:	158
Elevation Min M:	138
Elevation Max M:	172
Area Km2:	7.61

Tôtes (in French pronounced as /tot/) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France.

Geography

A farming small market town situated in the Pays de Caux, some 19miles 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.

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
• Bernard Monnereau (born 1935), Olympic rower (born in Tôtes)^[2]

Twin towns

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

See also

• The Auberge du Cygnes
• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

Notes and References

1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 2 December 2020. fr.
2. Bernard Monnereau . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417193523/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/bernard-monnereau-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 28 December 2017 .