Elbeuf (French pronunciation: [ɛlbœf]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Quick Facts Country, Region ...

Elbeuf
Commune
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Elbeuf
Elbeuf Show map of France Elbeuf Show map of Normandy
Coordinates: 49°17′N 1°01′E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Elbeuf
Intercommunality	Métropole Rouen Normandie
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Djoudé Merabet[1]
Area 1	16.32 km2 (6.30 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	15,951
• Density	980/km2 (2,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76231 /76500
Elevation	2–133 m (6.6–436.4 ft) (avg. 50 m or 160 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Close

A light industrial town situated by the banks of the Seine some 11 miles (18 km) south of Rouen at the junction of the D7, D321 and the D313 roads. The commune's territory is largely residential to the north but the southern section is covered by thick woodland. Its position by a meander of the Seine leaves the town susceptible to flooding.

The first written record of the town was in the 10th century, on a map of Richard I of Normandy, under the name "Wellebou".^{[citation needed]} It passed into the hands of the houses of Rieux and Lorraine, and was raised to the rank of a duchy in the peerage of France by Henry III in favour of Charles de Lorraine. The last duke of Elbeuf was Charles Eugène of Lorraine.^[3]

• The mairie, also housing the museum.
• Two seventeenth-century churches.
• Some sixteenth-century houses.
• Elbeuf corp headquarters.
• A fifteenth-century stone cross.
• The theatre (1890), renovated in the late twentieth century.

• Raoul Grimoin-Sanson, cinematography inventor, was born here.
• André Maurois (né Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog), novelist, member of the Académie française
• David Vigor was born here and was a member of the Australian Senate, representing the Australian Democrats and the Unite Australia Party

Lingen, Germany

• List of rulers of Elbeuf
• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department