Ry (Seine-Maritime)

Ry is a common French, located in the department of the Seine-Maritime and the area High-Normandy.

Etymology

The village of Ry, after its counterpart " Street " in Picardy, would have been created at the 10th century by Viking S Danish come from Ry, in the area of Rye, in the center of the Jutland (Denmark). Certain families still bear francized Danish names there. Another etymology makes come the name from the village of ritum (ford in Gaulois).

Geography

Ry is located at the east of Rouen in the valley of the Crevon. Ry is to 14 km of Buchy and Fleury-sur-Andelle, to 15 km of Lyons-the-Forest, to 16 km of Darnétal and to 20 km of Rouen. The Sentier of great excursion GR. 25 crosses the commune.

History

Ry was Chef-lieu canton during the Révolution (of 1790 to the 8 Pluviôse An IX (January 28th 1801)).

Administration

Demography

Graph of the evolution of the population 1793-1999

Places and monuments

Saint-Sulpice Church with square tower of the 12th century and porch Rebirth.
rural House of experimentation member (Phalanstery of children), creates by the fourierist Adolphe Jouanne in second half of the 19th century. It is the current gendarmerie.

Personalities related to the commune

Gustave Flaubert would have taken as a starting point Ry to create the village of Yonville - the Abbey in its novel Mrs Bovary . Adolphe Jouanne would have been used as prototype to Homais pharmacist.

See too

Common of the Seine-Maritime

External bonds

Official site
Ry on the site of the national geographical Institute
Ry on the site of INSEE
Ry on the site of Quid
Ry on GenCom
Ry on the chart of Cassini (GenCom)
the communes closest to Ry
Ry on Mapquest
Ry on Viamichelin

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