Saint-Paër is a
commune in the
Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime () is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Infà ...
department in the
Normandy
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Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular N ...
region in northern
France
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.
Geography
A
farming
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village situated by the banks of the river
Austreberthe
The Austreberthe () is an 18-km river in the Seine-Maritime. Its source is the village of Sainte-Austreberthe. It meets the Seine at Duclair.
The Austreberthe is crossed by the Barentin Viaduct, a noteworthy 30 metre high brick railway bridge ...
in the
Pays de Caux
The Pays de Caux (, , literally ''Land of Caux'') is an area in Normandy occupying the greater part of the French '' département'' of Seine Maritime in Normandy. It is a chalk plateau to the north of the Seine Estuary and extending to the cl ...
, some northwest of
Rouen
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine, in northwestern France. It is in the prefecture of Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one ...
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
A chapel (from , a diminutive of ''cappa'', meaning "little cape") is a Christianity, Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. First, smaller spaces inside a church that have their o ...
of the Trinity at Mesnil-Varin, dating from the seventeenth century.
* The seventeenth-century
chateau of Aulnay.
* The chateau des Vieux, also named château of Bois-Guéroult, built in the XVIIth, where lived the lords des Vieux or Bois-Guéroult.
* The chapel of the château of Bois-Guéroult.
People
*
Henri Gadeau de Kerville,
zoologist
Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...
, set up his
laboratory
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here in 1910.
See also
*
References
Communes of Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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