Fontaine-le-Bourg explained

Fontaine-le-Bourg
Commune Status:	Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:	Blason ville fr Fontaine-le-Bourg (Seine-Maritimes).svg
Arrondissement:	Rouen
Canton:	Bois-Guillaume
Insee:	76271
Postal Code:	76690
Mayor:	Dany Lemetais^[1]
Term:	2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:	Inter-Caux-Vexin
Coordinates:	49.5633°N 1.1639°W
Elevation M:	91
Elevation Min M:	62
Elevation Max M:	168
Area Km2:	12.2

Fontaine-le-Bourg (in French pronounced as /fɔ̃tɛn lə buʁ/) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A village of farming and a little light industry, situated by the banks of the Cailly in the Pays de Caux, some 10miles north of Rouen, at the junction of the D53, D44 and the D151 roads.

Places of interest

• The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the eleventh century.
• Ruins of a 16th-century château.
• A sixteenth century manor house.
• A memorial, erected in 1958 to commemorate an early motor car journey.
• A sixteenth century fountain.
• Old watermills and cotton mills alongside the river.
• A sandstone cross from the seventeenth century.

Notable people

Motor engineer Édouard Delamare-Deboutteville (1856–1901), who, in February 1884, together with Léon Malandin, built and drove a motor car fitted with a 4 stroke internal combustion engine from here to Cailly.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

Notes and References

1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.