Elbeuf

Elbeuf
Elbeuf
Commune
	Town hall
	Coat of arms
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	Coordinates: 49°17′N 1°01′E / 49.29°N 1.01°ECoordinates: 49°17′N 1°01′E / 49.29°N 1.01°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Elbeuf
Intercommunality	Métropole Rouen Normandie
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Djoudé Merabet
Area 1	16.32 km2 (6.30 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	16,205
• Density	990/km2 (2,600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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.

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".^{[citation needed]} 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.^[3]

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 of Elbeuf
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	18,988	19,407	19,116	17,224	16,604	16,666	17,494
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

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[]

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[]

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Elbeuf". Encyclopædia Britannica. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 163.