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ELBEUF , a See also:

town of See also:northern See also:France in the See also:department of See also:Seine-Inferieure, 14 M. S.S.W. of See also:Rouen by the western railway. Pop. (1906) 17,800. Elbeuf, a town of wide, clean streets, with handsome houses and factories, stands on the See also:left See also:bank of the Seine at the See also:foot of hills over which extends the See also:forest of Elbeuf. A tribunal and chamber of See also:commerce, a See also:board of See also:trade-arbitrators, a lycee, a See also:branch of the Bank of France, a school of See also:industry, a school of See also:cloth manufacture and a museum of natural See also:history are among its institutions. The churches of St See also:Etienne and St See also:Jean, both of the See also:Renaissance See also:period with later additions, preserve stained See also:glass of the 16th See also:century. The hotel-de-ville and the Cercle du Commerce are the See also:chief See also:modern buildings. The town with its suburbs, Orival, Caudebec-See also:les-Elbeuf, St See also:Aubin and St See also:Pierre, is one of the See also:principal and most See also:ancient seats of the woollen manufacture in France; more than See also:half the inhabitants are directly maintained by the See also:staple industry and See also:numbers more by the See also:auxiliary crafts. As a See also:river-See also:port it has a brisk trade in the produce of the surrounding See also:district as well as in the raw materials of its manufactures, especially in See also:wool from La See also:Plata, See also:Australia and See also:Germany. Two See also:bridges, one of them a suspension-See also:bridge, communicate with St Aubin on the opposite bank of the Seine, and steamboats ply regularly to Rouen. Elbeuf was, in the 13th century, the centre of an important See also:fief held by the See also:house of See also:Harcourt, but its previous history goes back at least to the See also:early years of the See also:Norman occupation, when it appears under the name of Hollebof.

It passed into the hands of the houses of Rieux and See also:

Lorraine, and was raised to the See also:rank of a duchy in the See also:peerage of France by See also:Henry III. in favour of See also:Charles of Lorraine (d. 1605), See also:grandson of See also:Claude, See also:duke of See also:Guise, See also:master of the hounds and master of the See also:horse of France. The last duke of Elbeuf was Charles See also:Eugene of Lorraine, See also:prince de Lambesc, who distinguished himself in 1789 by his See also:energy in repressing risings of the See also:people at See also:Paris. He fought in the See also:army of the Bourbons, and later in the service of See also:Austria, and died in 1825.

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