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Elbeuf

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Normandy, France
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Elbeuf is a French commune located in the branch of Seine-Maritime in area Normandy. The metropolis is once in a while locally known as Elbeuf sur Seine Note 2 , to differentiate with the cities of Elbeuf-en-Bray and Elbeuf-sur-Andelle , all three in the same department. Old material-making town placed 23 km south of Rouen and 40 km north-west of Evreux , Elbeuf is the crucial workplace of the canton of Elbeuf. Since 2010, it is part of the Rouen Normandy Metropolis, which reaches 486,519 inhabitants, as well as the urban unit of Rouen. Elbeuf has received the extent "3 flowers" inside the contest of cities and villages in bloom. The metropolis has the label “Cities and Countries of Art and History.

Around 1514, the first draperies of Elbeuf are born. After the business enterprise of weavers, Jean-Baptiste Colbert will supply in 1667 an extra increase to the fabric industry with the Royal Manufacture of sheets Elbeuf. On November 3, 1802, Napoleon visits the manufactures. Foreign opposition can be the reason for this financial activity of the town, as a way to fall for the duration of German manipulate in the course of the Second World War. The bombings of 1944 destroyed part of the metropolis middle. The metropolis is rebuilding but inside the Fifties, the material enterprise has to cope with the advent of artificial textiles. This opposition will lead to the sluggish disappearance of this industry. The firm Prudhomme is the remaining to shut in 1990.

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