Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.
Geography A residential village situated by the banks of the river Seine, some west of Rouen at the junction of the D67, D267 and the D982 roads.
Population
Places of interest
The abbey church of St. Georges, dating from the twelfth century. twelfth century vestiges of the abbey (cloisters and halls etc.) Ancient wood-framed houses. Manoir de l'Aumônerie, the thirteenth century Templars manorhouse at Genetay. Ruins of the old castle of Genetay. The sixteenth century chapel of St. Gorgon.
People Jean-Pierre Aumer, ballet choreographer, died here in 1833 Louis Fabulet, translator of the works of Rudyard Kipling lived here. The marriage of musician David Hallyday and model Estelle Lefébure took place here in 1989 Jean Lecanuet, politician, is buried in the abbey
Twin towns Hurstpierpoint, England
See also Saint-Georges de Boscherville Abbey Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
References
Bibliography Gilbert Fromager, Le Canton de Duclair à l'aube du XXe siècle, Duclair, 1986 Gilbert Fromager, Le Canton de Duclair 1925-1950, Duclair, 1993 Le Patrimoine des communes de la Seine-Maritime, tome 1, éditions Flohic, 1997
External links
Article and photos of the abbey of Boscherville The abbey at the Circulo Romanico