Déville-lès-Rouen (,évillelè literally Déville near Rouen) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department of the Normandy region in north-western France.

Geography

A suburban light industrial town situated by the banks of the Cailly, some northwest of the centre of Rouen at the junction of the D 66 and the D 6015 roads.

Déville-lès-Rouen

Heraldry

Population

Places of interest

The church of St.Pierre, dating from the nineteenth century. The ruins of a Rouen bishop's manor house dating from the thirteenth century. A sixteenth-century stone cross.

Déville-lès-Rouen

Notable people

Pierre Bérégovoy (1925–1993), politician, born in Déville-lès-Rouen

Tony Parker, basketball player. He went to school in Déville-lès-Rouen at Sainte-Marie college. Alfred Louis Delattre (1850–1932), archeologist, born in Déville-lès-Rouen

Déville-lès-Rouen

Twin towns

Bargteheide, Germany

Carmignano, Italy

Syston, England

See also

Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

References

External links

Independent website of Déville-lès-Rouen

Official website

Communes of Seine-Maritime