La Bouille (French pronunciation: [la buj]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France.

A small village (in area) surrounded by woodland situated south of a meander of the river Seine, some 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Rouen, at the junction of the D 64, D 132 and the D 675 roads. A ferry service crosses the river to Sahurs.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 959 —     1800 802 −2.52% 1806 877 +1.50% 1821 1,182 +2.01% 1831 1,171 −0.09% 1836 796 −7.43% 1841 772 −0.61% 1846 741 −0.82% 1851 745 +0.11% 1856 667 −2.19% 1861 652 −0.45% 1866 625 −0.84% 1872 602 −0.62% 1876 556 −1.97% 1881 562 +0.21% 1886 565 +0.11% 1891 544 −0.75% 1896 536 −0.30%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 515 −0.80% 1906 519 +0.15% 1911 502 −0.66% 1921 435 −1.42% 1926 466 +1.39% 1931 444 −0.96% 1936 497 +2.28% 1946 611 +2.09% 1954 618 +0.14% 1962 661 +0.84% 1968 611 −1.30% 1975 661 +1.13% 1982 550 −2.59% 1990 862 +5.78% 1999 791 −0.95% 2007 805 +0.22% 2012 793 −0.30% 2017 753 −1.03%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

• Writer Hector Malot was born here in 1830.
• French actor Albert Lambert.
• La Bouille has been the subject of landscapes by Turner, Gauguin, Albert Lebourg, Robert Antoine Pinchon and Henri Vignet.

• The church of Sainte-Madeleine, dating from the sixteenth century.
• A sixteenth century salt warehouse.
• Several lesser buildings dating from the thirteenth century.
• The Château Albert Lambert.
• The seventeenth-century château de l'Ermitage

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department