Fontaine-la-Mallet

Fontaine-la-Mallet

Village square

Coat of arms
Fontaine-la-Mallet

Coordinates: 49°32′14″N 0°08′44″E / 49.5372°N 0.1456°E / 49.5372; 0.1456Coordinates: 49°32′14″N 0°08′44″E / 49.5372°N 0.1456°E / 49.5372; 0.1456
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Le Havre
Canton Montivilliers
Intercommunality Le Havre
Area1 6.68 km2 (2.58 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 2,789
 • Density 420/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 76270 / 76290
Elevation 17–89 m (56–292 ft)
(avg. 27 m or 89 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Fontaine-le-Mallet is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

History

The first mention of the village dates from the eleventh century, when an abbess from Montivilliers bought 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land in order to build a church here "in villa dicitur Fontenais ad opus ecclesiae Sancta Mariae". In a register of the Secretariat of the Archdiocese of Rouen, dating from 1479 to 1480, it mentions "Parochia Fontibus le Mallet" - Mallet coming from the name of the first seigneurs - the Malet de Graville family (c. 1200–1300). Fontaine-la-Mallet grew over the centuries and was all but destroyed by bombing in September 1944. It was the most badly affected village of the lower Seine. Rebuilding of the commune was started in the 1960s.

Heraldry

 The arms of Fontaine-la-Mallet are blazoned :
Per bend Or and gules, on a bend wavy azure between 3 buckles gules and 2 leopards, at the base of the bend, stalks of wheat Or.

Geography

A village of farming and forestry situated in the Pays de Caux, some 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Le Havre, near the junction of the D52 and the N328 roads.

Population

Historical population of Fontaine-la-Mallet
Year1962196819751982199019992006
Population86292215032446248225442789
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

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