Elbeuf

Elbeuf
Town hall
Elbeuf
Location within Upper Normandy region  Elbeuf
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	CREA
Government
• Mayor (2008 - 2014)	Djoudé Merabet
Area^1	16.32 km^2 (6.30 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	17,494
• Density	1,100/km^2 (2,800/sq mi)
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 is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie 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". According to the Nuttall Encyclopedia of 1907, it had a flourishing manufacturing business in cloth, woollens, and similar items.

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.
• 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

See also

Elbeuf - Quartier du Puchot

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

References

• INSEE

External links

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