Beaumont-en-Auge
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Beaumont-en-Auge ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}, literally Beaumont in Auge) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. The town hosts one of the last kaleidoscope manufacturers in France.
Population
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Notable people
- Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher.<ref>Template:Cite EB1911</ref>
- Jean-Charles Langlois (1789–1870), soldier and military commander during the Napoleonic Wars, painter of battles.
See also
- The brilliance of Beaumont-en-Auge; vintage and current images of the village with a short biography of Laplace
- Communes of the Calvados department
References
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