Soliers
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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Expand French Template:Infobox French commune
Soliers ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Geography
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Four and Soliers.<ref name="gmap">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Population
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Points of Interest
National Heritage sites
- Église Saint-Vigor de Soliers thirteenth century church listed as a Monument historique in 1927.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Notable people
- Stanislas Touchet (1842 - 1926) a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Orléans from 1894 until his death, and became a cardinal in 1922 was born here.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Twin towns – sister cities
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- Template:Flagicon Ipplepen, England, United Kingdom, since 1986.
- Template:Flagicon Krombach, Germany, since 1996