Beaumont-en-Auge

Beaumont-en-Auge
Town hall
Coat of arms
Beaumont-en-Auge
Location within Lower Normandy region  Beaumont-en-Auge
Coordinates: 49°16′44″N 0°06′38″E / 49.2789°N 0.1106°ECoordinates: 49°16′44″N 0°06′38″E / 49.2789°N 0.1106°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Pont-l'Évêque
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Daniel Louvet
Area^1	7.98 km^2 (3.08 sq mi)
Population (2008)^2	458
• Density	57/km^2 (150/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	14055 / 14950
Elevation	29–146 m (95–479 ft) (avg. 125 m or 410 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Beaumont-en-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

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	542	—
1968	469	−13.5%
1975	409	−12.8%
1982	397	−2.9%
1990	472	+18.9%
1999	496	+5.1%
2008	458	−7.7%

Personalities

• Jean-Charles Langlois, soldier and military commander during the Napoleonic Wars, painter of battles, born at Beaumont.
• Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher, born at Beaumont-en-Auge.

See also

• The brilliance of Beaumont-en-Auge; vintage and current images of the village with short bio of Laplace, famous mathematician astronomer born in the town
• Communes of the Calvados department

References

• INSEE