Fontaine-le-Bourg

Fontaine-le-Bourg
Fontaine-le-Bourg

Coordinates: 49°33′48″N 1°09′50″E / 49.5633°N 1.1639°E / 49.5633; 1.1639Coordinates: 49°33′48″N 1°09′50″E / 49.5633°N 1.1639°E / 49.5633; 1.1639
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Rouen
Canton Clères
Intercommunality Portes Nord-Ouest de Rouen
Government
  Mayor Patrick Jolly
Area1 12.2 km2 (4.7 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 1,496
  Density 120/km2 (320/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 76271 / 76690
Elevation 62–168 m (203–551 ft)
(avg. 91 m or 299 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.

Fontaine-le-Bourg is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Geography

A village of farming and a little light industry, situated by the banks of the Cailly River in the Pays de Caux, some 10 miles (16 km) north of Rouen, at the junction of the D53, D44 and the D151 roads.

Heraldry

The arms of Fontaine-le-Bourg are blazoned :
Quarterly 1: Gules, a mitre Or; 2: Or a Delmarre-Deboutteville car vert; 3: Or, a weaver's shuttle bendwise vert; 4: gules, a lion Or; all within a bordure compony argent and sable.

Population

Historical population of Fontaine-le-Bourg
Year1962196819751982199019992006
Population1062116411701301142014831496
From the year 1962 on: No double countingresidents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

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

References

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