Saint-Paër

Saint-Paër
Commune
The chateau of Aulnay in Saint-Paër
Location of Saint-Paër
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Coordinates: 49°31′02″N 0°52′48″E / 49.5172°N 0.88°E / 49.5172; 0.88
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Barentin
Intercommunality	Métropole Rouen Normandie
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Valère His[1]
Area 1	18.36 km2 (7.09 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	1,306
• Density	71/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76631 /76480
Elevation	7–126 m (23–413 ft) (avg. 107 m or 351 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Paër is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A farming village situated by the banks of the river Austreberthe in the Pays de Caux, some 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Rouen at the junction of the D5, D63 and the D86 roads.

Population

Places of interest

• The church of St. Paër, dating from the eleventh century.
• The chapel of the Trinity at Mesnil-Varin, dating from the seventeenth century.
• The seventeenth-century chateau of Aulnay.
• The chateau des Vieux, also named château of Bois-Guéroult, built in the XVIIth, where lived the lords des Vieux or Bois-Guéroult.^[4]
• The chapel of the château of Bois-Guéroult.

People

• Henri Gadeau de Kerville, zoologist, set up his laboratory here in 1910.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

References

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