Fontaine-le-Bourg

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Fontaine-le-Bourg (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A village of farming and a little light industry, situated by the banks of the Cailly in the Pays de Caux, some Script error: No such module "convert". north of Rouen, at the junction of the D53, D44 and the D151 roads.

Heraldry

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Population

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Places of interest

  • The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the eleventh century.
  • Ruins of a 16th-century château.
  • A sixteenth century manor house.
  • A memorial, erected in 1958 to commemorate an early motor car journey.
  • A sixteenth century fountain.
  • Old watermills and cotton mills alongside the river.
  • A sandstone cross from the seventeenth century.

Notable people

Motor engineer Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville (1856–1901), who, in February 1884, together with Léon Malandin, built and drove a motor car fitted with a 4 stroke internal combustion engine from here to Cailly.

See also

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