Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan

Commune in Normandy, France

(2020–2026) Franck de Belloy^[1]Area14.24 km² (5.50 sq mi)Population293 • Density21/km² (53/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal codeElevation3–121 m (9.8–397.0 ft)
(avg. 20 m or 66 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A farming village in the Pays de Caux, situated some 21 miles (34 km) east of Le Havre, on the D81 and D281 roads, by the banks of the meandering river Seine, which forms the commune's southern border.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	255	—
1975	243	−0.69%
1982	230	−0.78%
1990	211	−1.07%
1999	239	+1.39%
2007	322	+3.80%
2012	317	−0.31%
2017	305	−0.77%
Source: INSEE[3]

Places of interest

• The church of St. Maurice, dating from the fifteenth century.
• The fourteenth-century chateau.

People

• Félix Faure (1841–1899), 7th president of France
• André Bettencourt (1919–2007), government minister
• Ernest Picard-Destelan (in French), French navy officer
• Laurence de Cambronne (1951–), editor in chief of the magazine Elle

See also

• Château d'Ételan
• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

References