Elbeuf

Elbeuf, a manufacturing town in the French department of Seine-Inférieure, on the left bank of the Seine, here crossed by two bridges to St Anbin, 14 miles S. by W. of Rouen by rail. The manufactures of cloth, flannel fabrics, billiard cloth, and light woollens of every colour and description, employ some 25,000 men here and in the neighbouring towns (Caudebec, &c.), and the annual output of the district is valued at from 85,000,000 to 95,000,000 francs. Pop. of town (1872) 22,563; (1886) 21,829; (1891) 21,097.