Fontaine-la-Mallet

French commune
name= Fontaine-le-Mallet
region=Haute-Normandie
department=Seine-Maritime
arrondissement=Le Havre
canton= Montivilliers
insee=76270
cp=76290
maire=
mandat=
intercomm=Communauté d'agglomération havraise
longitude=0.145555555556
latitude=49.5372222222
alt moy=27 m
alt mini=17 m
alt maxi=89 m
hectares=668
km²=6,68
sans=2611
date-sans=2005
dens=390|

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

History

The first mention of the village dates from the eleventh century, when an abbess from Montivilliers bought 100 acres 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 1479-1480, 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.

Geography

A village of farming and forestry situated in the Pays de Caux, some convert|5|mi|km north of Le Havre, near the junction of the D52 and the N328 roads.

Population

Places of interest

* The church of St.Valery, dating from the 11th century, one of only a few buildings not destroyed in 1944.

See also

*Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

External links

* [http://www.fontainelamallet.fr Official commune website]
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=16460&req=Fontaine-le-Mallet Fontaine-le-Mallet on the Quid website] fr

Notes

*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on October 2nd 2008."