Fontaine-le-Bourg

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
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	1062	1164	1170	1301	1420	1483	1496
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 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.

References

INSEE

External links

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Fontaine-le-Bourg on the Quid website (in French)

Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

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