Tostes

Tostes
Part of Terres de Bord
Location of Tostes
Tostes Tostes
Coordinates: 49°15′37″N 1°06′45″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Eure
Arrondissement	Les Andelys
Canton	Pont-de-l'Arche
Commune	Terres de Bord
Area 1	12.28 km2 (4.74 sq mi)
Population  (2019)	447
• Density	36/km2 (94/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	27340
Elevation	79–137 m (259–449 ft) (avg. 130 m or 430 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Tostes (French pronunciation: [tot]) is a former commune in the Eure department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Terres de Bord.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 207 —     1800 188 −9.2% 1806 190 +1.1% 1821 146 −23.2% 1831 157 +7.5% 1836 168 +7.0% 1841 152 −9.5% 1846 146 −3.9% 1851 167 +14.4% 1856 200 +19.8% 1861 123 −38.5% 1866 207 +68.3% 1872 225 +8.7% 1876 227 +0.9% 1881 246 +8.4% 1886 237 −3.7% 1891 232 −2.1%

Year Pop. ±% 1896 188 −19.0% 1901 193 +2.7% 1906 193 +0.0% 1911 187 −3.1% 1921 156 −16.6% 1926 171 +9.6% 1931 168 −1.8% 1936 177 +5.4% 1946 189 +6.8% 1954 179 −5.3% 1962 197 +10.1% 1968 216 +9.6% 1975 233 +7.9% 1982 270 +15.9% 1990 315 +16.7% 1999 351 +11.4% 2008 383 +9.1%

Personalities

Notable People

• Joseph Lion: published a study in the Almanac Normand-Percheron in 1908 on the use of potash fertilizer in Normandy

Fictional Characters

• Madame Bovary

Tostes is often accredited as the location of Charles and Emma Bovary's first home in Gustave Flaubert's novel; in actuality, it is the commune of Tôtes (postal code 76890) in the department of Seine-Maritime (previously Seine-Inférieure) that inspired the novelist. The confusion stems from the fact that in the 19th century the names of both locales were indiscriminately spelled as Tostes, Tôtes, or Totes. This information can be found in several sources, including the website of the University of Rouen, which has devoted much of the past two decades to numerous research studies on the genesis of Madame Bovary. On this map, the proximity of Totes to Yvetot leaves no doubt as to the location of the village where Charles Bovary was established as a health officer.

See also

• Communes of the Eure department

References

• Flaubert, Gustave (2010). Davis, Lydia (ed.). Madame Bovary. Viking Adult. ISBN 978-0-670-02207-6.