Soumont-Saint-Quentin

Soumont-Saint-Quentin (Template:IPA) 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, Aisy, La Mine, Le Mont Joly and Soumont-Saint-Quentin.<ref name="gmap">Template:Cite web</ref>

The river Laizon is the only watercourse that flows through the commune.<ref>Template:Sandre</ref>

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Points of Interest

• La Brèche au Diable known in English as the Devil's Breach is a set of two rocky outcrops over looking the Laizon river.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It is shared with the neighbouring commune of Potigny.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

National Heritage sites

The commune has five sites listed as a Monument historique.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

• Église Saint-Quentin de Soumont-Saint-Quentin - a twelfth centaury church, listed as a Monument historique in 1910.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Église d'Aizy - a thirteenth centaury church, listed as a Monument historique in 1911.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Chapelle du Mont-Joly - a thirteenth centaury chapel, listed as a Monument historique in 1927.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Tomb of Marie Joly and its enclosure - an eighteenth centaury tomb for Marie Elisabeth Joly, sculptured by Jacques-Philippe Le Sueur for listed as a Monument historique in 1927.<ref name="tomb">Template:Cite web</ref>
• Menhirs des Longraisa set of three Neolithic Menhirs listed as a monument in 1978.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Notable people

• Marie-Élisabeth Joly - (1761 - 1798) a French stage actress, who was engaged at the Comédie-Française in 1781.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She is buried here and her tomb is now a listed monument.<ref name="tomb"/>

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department