Jacques Hotteterre and château d'eau (water tower), La Couture-Boussey, Eure (27)

The Hotteterre family originates from La Couture-Boussey, and were well-known as wind instrumentalists, makers of wind instruments and composers particularly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Louis XIV's composer and flautist Jacques Hotteterre is the most famous of them. On the other side of the château d'eau is a huge alto clarinette. 

Due to a high level of nitrates, the building has been out of use since 1985. The Ateliers Adeline made the painting in 2001. As it suggests at the top of the tower, the village is the home of the Musée des instruments à vent.

Guillaume de Montmorency and the château d'eau (water tower), Damville, Eure (27)

This superb painting, by the Ateliers Adeline, shows a part of Damville's local history, with Guillaume de Montmorency, Duc de Damville, clutching the Norman standard against a rural background. 

Boîte à lire, Évreux, Eure (27)

A staunchly secular boîte à lire in Évreux, with a strict rule: 'rappel : AUCUN LIVRE sur la religion MERCI'. It seems to be run by 'Carrément Voisins', who also advertise a poetry meeting here.

Robert Vasseur's Maison de la Vaisselle Cassée, Louviers, Eure (27)

Unfortunately, La Maison de la Vaisselle Cassée (called the House of Broken Crockery in English) wasn't open at one of the times I'd seen it advertised as being open at, so I just had to make do with what I saw from the outside, which was nevertheless very fruitful. Robert Vasseur (1908 - 2002) was a milkman whose passion was to accumulate reclaimed broken crockery, glass, shells, etc, and cover the walls of his house with mosaics formed from them. The idea came to him by chance, and in 1952 he began working on his kitchen, and, impressed by the result, continued on other rooms in his house, the garage, the garden, even the dog kennel. He asked a dustman friend to help him in supplying the basic substances for his work. There are two butterflies on the wall of his house, representing his CB code name 'Papillon 27'. Here are a number of images I found:

Modeste Anquetin in Évreux, Eure (27)

Modeste Anquetin (1817-1909) was a clockmaker who was born in and died in Évreux. He was the author of a number of works, some poetry, some on Vercingétorix (80-46 BC), and also La Montre carrée de Marie Touchet, who was the Countess of Entragues and mistress of Charles IX.

Jules Janin in Évreux, Eure (27)

Writer and drama critic Jules Janin (1804-1871) was born in Saint-Étienne and died in Paris.  As a journalist, he worked for a number of periodicals, such as Revue de Paris, Revue des deux Mondes, Figaro and La Quotidienne. His reputation was established with the novels L’Âne mort et la femme guillotinée (1827), La Confession (1830) and Barnave (1831). He was critic for the Journal des Débats for forty years, and became known as 'Le prince des critiques.' He was elected to Académie française in 1870, occupying Sainte-Beuve's former seat. He is buried in the Cimetière Saint-Louis in Évreux, in the family vault of his widow Adélaïde Janin-Huet (1820-1876). On her death in 1876, Adélaïde Janin-Huet left the town the wherewithal to create a monumental water fountain to be erected in a promiment place in Évreux, where it stands in front of the town hall. The names of her father and her deceased husband, as donators, were inscribed on the fountain, although I unfortunately didn't notice them.