Thierville () is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. It is around 30 km south-west of Rouen city centre, and around 130 km north west of Paris.
Thierville is remarkable as one of only 12 villages in all of France with no men lost from World War I.Grégory Bozonnet, La sécurité. La mémoire, Armand Colin, 2016, p. 87. Even more remarkably, Thierville also suffered no losses in the Franco-Prussian War and World War II,Jérôme Duhamel (Paris 1990). Grand Inventaire du Génie Français, p.196: "Between 1919 and 1925, a war memorial was erected in every community in France, with one single exception: the village of Thierville in the department of the Eure, the only French village which had no dead to mourn, not in 1870, nor in 14-18, nor in 39-45" nor in the First Indochina War nor the Algerian War. All the soldiers who took part in these five wars came back home.
Population
Personalities Probable birthplace of Theobald of Bec, archbishop of Canterbury
See also Communes of the Eure department Thankful Villages
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