Saint-Paër

Saint-Paër
Saint-Paër
Location within Upper Normandy region  Saint-Paër
Coordinates: 49°31′02″N 0°52′48″E / 49.5172°N 0.88°ECoordinates: 49°31′02″N 0°52′48″E / 49.5172°N 0.88°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Duclair
Intercommunality	Seine-Austreberthe
Government
• Mayor	Valère His
Area^1	18.36 km^2 (7.09 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	1,222
• Density	67/km^2 (170/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76631 / 76480
Elevation	7–126 m (23–413 ft) (avg. 107 m or 351 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.

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

Geography

A farming village situated by the banks of the Austreberthe River in the Pays de Caux, some 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Rouen at the junction of the D5, D63 and the D86 roads.

Population

Population history

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
876	873	932	1218	1265	1326	1222
Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

• The church of St. Paër, dating from the eleventh century.
• The chapel of the Trinity at Mesnil-Varin, dating from the seventeenth century.
• The seventeenth-century chateau of Aulnay.
• The chateau des Vieux.
• The chapel of the château of Bois-Guéroult.

People

• Henri Gadeau de Kerville, zoologist, set up his laboratory here in 1910.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
• Seine-Maritime
• Normandy

References

• INSEE

External links

• Saint-Paër on the Quid website (French)