Beaumont-en-Auge (, literally Beaumont in 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
Notable people Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher. Jean-Charles Langlois (1789–1870), soldier and military commander during the Napoleonic Wars, painter of battles.
See also The brilliance of Beaumont-en-Auge; vintage and current images of the village with a short biography of Laplace Communes of the Calvados department
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