title: Quevauvillers
text: # Quevauvillers
  
  Quevauvillers (French pronunciation: ​) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Quevauvillers is situated on the N29 road, some 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Amiens.
  
  ## History
  
  The village of Quevauvillers first appears in Roman times as Equitum villa (residence of the riders) and would haver been a staging post on the Roman road from Amiens to Rouen. During the wars with the Normans near the end of the first millennium, the village was completely destroyed.
  
  ## Personalities
  
  Jean-Pierre Pernaut, television reporter, spent his childhood here.
  
  