page_title: Souleuvre
section_title: Souleuvre valley
hierarchical_section_title: Souleuvre / Souleuvre valley
caption_attribution_description: Le pont du Taureau, à la limite des communes de la Ferrière-Harang et Carville (Normandie, France)&#160;; lieu d'action de l'opération Bluecoat, sur la Souleuvre.
context_page_description: The Souleuvre is a 19.0 km long right affluent of the Vire in Normandy, northwestern France.
context_section_description: Le viaduc de la Souleuvre : inspired by the art of Gustave Eiffel, its metal duct was destroyed in 1970. One of the pillars is a bungee platform still.
  Taureau bridge (2 km downstream) : named after "The Black Bull", emblem of the British 11th Armoured Division, which crossed the bridge during Operation Bluecoat on July 31, 1944. It was surprisingly ignored by the Allies and German surveillance.
  Les gorges de la Vire : the prolongation of la vallée de la Souleuvre.
caption: Taureau bridge
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