Yvetot

Geography

History

The origin of the city is probably Scandinavian. Indeed, the name Yvetot comes from " Ivo" (name of baptème frankly, which survives in the Yves first name and family name Yvon, very frequent in Normandy, adopted by Scandinavian colonists converted with Catholicism), and of " topt" (modern toft): site, closes as a Scandinavian, having been used to form several hundreds of place names in Normandy. This Viking receives at the beginning of Xe century this territory in sovereign freehold, which accepts Rollon and its successors. These lords often carry the title of king , bénéfiant of all the privileges of sovereignty until 1551. Titrate of nobility attested in 1024.

Detached from any homage, at least since 1203, it remains a Principauté until 1789.

The prosperity of the city is related to a trade extremely developed as of the 17th century, thanks to its statute of tax shelter, and with spinning mills of Coton in full expansion after 1794. At the 19th century the city develops a production of fabric. Practically shaven in 1940 by the Germans, it is rebuilt in a traditional style. It takes again width in the middle of the 20th century, although it lost its statute of sub-prefecture in 1926.

Administration

Until 1926, Yvetot was Chef-lieu old Arrondissement of Yvetot , removed on this occasion and ever reconstituted. It was thus seat of a Sous-préfecture.

Demography

Economy

Antenna of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Rouen.

The round church and its stained glass

The Vitrail (regarded as vastest of Europe with 1046 m ²) built in the years 1950 by max Ingrand is a puzzle which explodes of colors crimson and gold, frays of blue. Meticulous assembly of a thousand of parts out of glass which presents holy , with a broad shutter devoted to the Normands of the diocese of Rouen. At the sides of the Christ, saint Pierre (owner of the parish of Yvetot since thousand years) and of the apostles one will recognize holy Valery (apostle of the Pays of Caux and Vimeux at the 7th century), holy Saëns (an Irishman, monk of Jumièges, founder of an abbey in the valley of the Game preserve), holy Ouen (which introduced the monastic life with Rouen), holy Philibert (the first abbot of Jumièges) or holy Wandrille. There, one will find bishops of Rouen. Among them: saint Romain (strangling the waste-gas main which devastated Rouen), holy Rémy, holy Hugues. Other characters represented in this procession, the ladies are not in remainder. With some steps of the Virgin Mary, Jeanne d' Arc shines of thousand fires, in its armor.

The abbess of Holy-Austreberthe

Further, holy Austreberthe, abbess of Pavilly, recalls a legend. That of the green wolf of Jumièges. “The animal was charged to carry the baskets of linen between two abbeys, because it had devoured their ass”

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