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Beaumont-en-Auge — A village of the Pays d’Auge, in Normandy, where Laplace was born
A small town of the Pays d’Auge, between Pont-l’Évêque and the sea, which in the eighteenth century had a college run by Benedictines and then a royal military school. Laplace was born there to a farming family and studied at the college; a statue commemorates him there. (Editorial synthesis)
Recorded person born in Beaumont-en-Auge: Laplace.
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