Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan

Saint-Maurice-d’Ételan
The chateau of Ételan
Saint-Maurice-d’Ételan
Location within Upper Normandy region Saint-Maurice-d’Ételan
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Le Havre
Canton	Lillebonne
Intercommunality	Caux-Vallée de Seine
Government
• Mayor (2008–2013)	Franck de Belloy
Area1	14.24 km2 (5.50 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	334
• Density	23/km2 (61/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76622 / 76330
Elevation	3–121 m (9.8–397.0 ft) (avg. 20 m or 66 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-Maurice-d’Ételan is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Geography

A farming village in the Pays de Caux, situated some 21 miles (34 km) east of Le Havre, on the D81 and D281 roads, by the banks of the meandering river Seine, which forms the commune’s southern border.

Population

Historical population of Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	241	255	243	230	211	239	334
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 church

• The church of St. Maurice, dating from the fifteenth century.
• The fourteenth-century chateau.

People

Félix Faure - 7th President of France

• Félix Faure (1841–1899), 7th president of France
• André Bettencourt (1919–2007), government minister
• Ernest Picard-Destelan (French), French navy officer
• Laurence de Cambronne (1951–), editor in chief of the magazine Elle

See also

• Château d'Ételan
• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
• Seine-Maritime
• Normandy

References

• INSEE

External links

• Saint-Maurice-d’Ételan on the Quid website (French)