Saint-Paër

Saint-Paër
Commune
Saint-Paër
Location within Normandy region  Saint-Paër
Coordinates: 49°31′02″N 0°52′48″E / 49.5172°N 0.88°E / 49.5172; 0.88Coordinates: 49°31′02″N 0°52′48″E / 49.5172°N 0.88°E / 49.5172; 0.88
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Barentin
Intercommunality	Métropole Rouen Normandie
Government
• Mayor	Valère His
Area1	18.36 km2 (7.09 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	1,222
• Density	67/km2 (170/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
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 Normandy 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

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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saint-Paër.

• Saint-Paër on the Quid website (in French)