Elbeuf

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Country France Department Seine-Maritime Intercommunality CREA Area 16.32 km² Arrondissement Rouen		Region Normandy Canton Elbeuf Population (2006) 17,494 Local time Wednesday 10:18 AM

Weather 12°C, Wind SW at 23 km/h, 94% Humidity Points of interest La Fabrique des Savoirs, Musée Municipal, CREA (Communauté Agglo Rouen Elbeuf Austreberthe)

Elbeuf is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Map of Elbeuf, France

Geography

A light industrial town situated by the banks of the Seine some 11 miles (18 km) south of Rouen at the junction of the D7, D321 and the D313 roads. The commune’s territory is largely residential to the north but the southern section is covered by thick woodland. Its position by a meander of the Seine leaves the town susceptible to flooding.

History

The first written record of the town was in the 10th century, on a map of Richard I of Normandy, under the name "Wellebou". According to the Nuttall Encyclopedia of 1907, it had a flourishing manufacturing business in cloth, woollens, and similar items.

Places of interest

The mairie, also housing the museum.

Two seventeenth-century churches.

Some sixteenth-century houses.

A fifteenth-century stone cross.

The theatre (1890), renovated in the late twentieth century.

Notable people

Raoul Grimoin-Sanson, cinematography inventor, was born here.

André Maurois (né Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog), novelist, member of the Académie française

David Vigor was born here and was a member of the Australian Senate, representing the Australian Democrats and the Unite Australia Party

Twin towns

Lingen, Germany

References

Elbeuf Wikipedia

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