Beaufour-Druval
Commune
The Church of Notre-Dame-de-Druval
Coat of arms
Location of Beaufour-Druval
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Coordinates: 49°12′52″N 0°01′36″E / 49.2144°N 0.0267°E / 49.2144; 0.0267
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Mézidon Vallée d'Auge
Intercommunality	CC Normandie-Cabourg-Pays d'Auge
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Pierre Mercher[1]
Area 1	11.34 km2 (4.38 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	444
• Density	39/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14231 /14340
Elevation	30–151 m (98–495 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.

Beaufour-Druval (French pronunciation: [bofuʁ dʁyval] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.^[3]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Beaufourquais-Druvalais or Beaufourquaises-Druvalaises.^[4]

Beaufour-Druval is located some 25 km east by north-east of Caen and 12 km south-east of Cabourg. Access to the commune is by the D287 road from Angerville in the north-west, the D276 from Cresseveuille in the north which continues south-east to Auvillars, and the D146 from Beuvron-en-Auge in the south-west which continues to join the D45 in the north-east. The D85 from Saint-Léger-Dubosq in the west to Rumesnil in the south forms part of the south-western border of the commune. Apart from the village, there are the hamlets of Saint-Aubin-Lebizay and La Ruelle. The commune is entirely farmland.^[5][6]

The Ruisseau de Druval forms the south-eastern border of the commune as it flows south-west to join the Doigt west of Rumesnil. Several unnamed tributaries rise in the commune and flow south-east to join the Ruisseau de Druval.^[5][6]

Beaufour was attested in its Romanesque form Belfou in 1040 and 1066 then badly Latinized to Bellafagus in 1195.^[7]

The name has no relationship with "un four" as shown in the old forms but comes from the beech tree, which was formerly called fou in the west.

Druval comes from Drudo plus the Latin suffix vallem.^[8]

Beaufour appears as Beaufou on the 1750 Cassini Map^[9] and the same on the 1790 version.^[10]

Druval appears as Druval on the 1750 Cassini Map^[9] and the same on the 1790 version.^[10]

The commune was created in 1972 from the merger of Beaufour, Druval, and Saint-Aubin-Lebizay.^[11]

The commune is probably the birthplace of William de Beaufeu, Bishop of Thetford from 1086 to 1091. It is also the probable birthplace of Richard de Beaufou, bishop of Avranches from 1134 to 1142 who is probably related to William de Beaufou.

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List of Successive Mayors^[12]

In 2017 the commune had 444 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 350 —     1800 176 −9.35% 1806 243 +5.52% 1821 252 +0.24% 1831 211 −1.76% 1836 230 +1.74% 1841 213 −1.52% 1846 181 −3.20% 1851 163 −2.07% 1856 163 +0.00% 1861 149 −1.78% 1866 152 +0.40% 1872 137 −1.72% 1876 130 −1.30% 1881 148 +2.63% 1886 134 −1.97% 1891 140 +0.88% 1896 149 +1.25%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 155 +0.79% 1906 125 −4.21% 1911 129 +0.63% 1921 118 −0.89% 1926 125 +1.16% 1931 106 −3.24% 1936 114 +1.47% 1946 116 +0.17% 1954 96 −2.34% 1962 131 +3.96% 1968 105 −3.62% 1975 239 +12.47% 1982 293 +2.95% 1990 323 +1.23% 1999 362 +1.27% 2007 424 +2.00% 2012 425 +0.05% 2017 444 +0.88%
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Source: EHESS[11] and INSEE[13]

The commune has a number of buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments:

• A Chateau (19th century)^[14]

The Church of Notre-Dame-de-Druval (13th century) is registered as an historical monument.^[15] It contains a large number of items that are registered as historical objects.^[15]

• Communes of the Calvados department

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