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 Elbeuf is a French town that is set at the confluence of the Oison and Seine rivers. It is a large industrial town whose main activity for several centuries during the Middle Ages was the production of cloth.
Elbeuf has since replaced cloth-making with other industries, but its population of 60,000 still has something of a 19th century working-class town about it. The church of St. Stephen and St. John (Saint-Etienne and Saint-Jean) bear witness to a more distant, more prosperous past. One of their stained-glass windows, dating back to the 16th century, depicts drapers at work.
On the Elbeuf to Oissel road, Seine-Maritime, which is decidedly quite varied as regards landscapes and buildings, offers visitors a strange beauty spot — the Orival Rocks. |
