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Herqueville, Eure

commune in Eure, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ258225 ↗
Source-derived summary

Herqueville (French pronunciation: [ɛʁkəvil]) is a commune in the Eure department in northern France.

Population

See also

Communes of the Eure department

History

The local lords of the manor were the Maillet du Boulay family until 1934 when the estate was purchased by Louis Renault who is buried there.

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“Herqueville, Eure” enters the record as commune in Eure, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Herqueville, Eure and commune can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1934—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Herqueville, Eure and commune.
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“Herqueville, Eure” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Herqueville, Eure and commune provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q258225. VIAF identifies the subject as 137355303. The Library of Congress control number is n93086784. Authority coordinates are 49.244, 1.262. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1934.

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This entry incorporates text from “Herqueville, Eure” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.