Saint Etienne du Rouvray

Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray is a collective in the Seine-Maritime office in the Normandy locale in northern France. Proof of antiquated home has been found close by the site of cutting edge Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray including Neolithic instruments just as indications of Gallo-Roman settlements. A villa called Sancti Stephani and reliant on the Abbey of Saint-Wandrille was accounted for in the 9th century in a regal contract. The town at that point created along the street associating Paris to Rouen. During the 15th and 16th hundreds of years the area had 500 occupants. The populace developed, profiting by arable land close to the stream, just as rich timberlands, fields and prairies.

On 26 July 2016 two blade using men, supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, burst into a 16th century church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, took 5 prisoners and murdered a 85-year-old Roman Catholic cleric, the Reverend Jacques Hamel, before they were shot and slaughtered by police. Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray is an extensive rural town of light industry and ranger service arranged by the banks of the Seine, about 4 miles 6.4 km south of the focal point of Rouen on the D18 and the D18 streets. The collective is served by the Rouen tramway.

Spots of intrigue:

• The 16th century church of St. Etienne.

• The congregation of St.Therese.

• The 20th century church of Notre-Dame.

• "The Left Bank" social focus.

• The Technopole at Madrillet.

• The 15th century manorhouse du Madrillet, in the backwoods.