Fontaine-la-Mallet

Fontaine-la-Mallet
Village square
Fontaine-la-Mallet
Location within Upper Normandy region Fontaine-la-Mallet
Coordinates:
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)
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

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	862	922	1503	2446	2482	2544	2789
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

References

• INSEE

External links

• Official commune website
• Fontaine-le-Mallet on the Quid website (French)