Bellou

Template:Expand French Template:Infobox French commune Bellou ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a former commune in the Calvados département in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Livarot-Pays-d'Auge.<ref>Arrêté préfectoral 24 December 2015 Template:In lang</ref>

Geography

The commune of Bellou is situated 18 kilometres from Lisieux, in the Pays d'Auge.

The Manoir de Bellou, built in 1720, and its 16th-century dovecote, have been registered as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1923. Its cider press building with its machinery and cellar were added to the register in 2004.<ref name=MinCult>Template:Base Mérimée</ref>

Rose Harel, poet and goguettère, was born here on 8 April 1826. She died in Lisieux on 4 July 1885.<ref>Marie de Besneray, Template:Usurped, Caen, 1902. Template:In lang</ref>