Elbeuf

Elbeuf
Commune
Town hall
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Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Elbeuf
Intercommunality	Métropole Rouen Normandie
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Djoudé Merabet
Area1	16.32 km2 (6.30 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)2
INSEE/Postal code	76231 / 76500
Elevation	2–133 m (6.6–436.4 ft) (avg. 50 m or 160 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Elbeuf (French pronunciation: ​[ɛlbœf]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern 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". It passed into the hands of the houses of Rieux and Lorraine, and was raised to the rank of a duchy in the peerage of France by Henry III in favour of Charles de Lorraine. The last duke of Elbeuf was Charles Eugène of Lorraine.

Heraldry

The arms of Elbeuf are blazoned : Per pale: 1 Or, a patriarchal cross gules issuant from a base, supporting a grapevine vert fructed purpure, 2 Azure, a beehive Or on a base vert, beset by bees Or.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	19,407	—
1975	19,116	−0.22%
1982	17,224	−1.48%
1990	16,604	−0.46%
1999	16,666	+0.04%
2007	16,975	+0.23%
2012	17,315	+0.40%
2017	16,166	−1.36%
Source: INSEE

Places of interest

• The mairie, also housing the museum.
• Two seventeenth-century churches.
• Some sixteenth-century houses.
• Elbeuf corp headquarters.
• A fifteenth-century stone cross.
• The theatre (1890), renovated in the late twentieth century.

Place du Calvaire and the Tramway around 1900

Notable people

• Paul Bureau, jurist and sociologist
• Raoul Grimoin-Sanson, cinematography inventor
• André Maurois, novelist, member of the Académie française
• David Vigor,a member of the Australian Senate, representing the Australian Democrats and the Unite Australia Party

Twin towns

Lingen, Germany

See also

Elbeuf - Quartier du Puchot

• List of rulers of Elbeuf
• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

External links

• Official Elbeuf website
• Website of the Communauté d'Agglomération d'Elbeuf
• Website of the parish of Elbeuf
• Elbeuf on the Quid website