Étrépagny, Eure Département, Normandy, France

🇫🇷 Étrépagny is a commune in the Eure department in the Normandy region in northern France. The municipality is located on the Norman Vexin plateau about 18 km from Les Andelys.

History Roman occupation. A resort of King Dagobert I, erected as a fortress in the ducal period, Étrépagny was in the 16th century the property of Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Longueville and the Turgot family in the 18th century.

The original village occupied the marshy lands of the green enclosure before the 11th century. The houses were concentrated on Saint-Rock, the Bonde and Valtot (and its mill). Work carried out in 1820, to a depth of more than four meters, made it possible to meet several successive layers indicating habitats. The village moved to escape the flooding of the river. Around the 14th century, it moved north to become today's city. The green clos was gradually cleaned up and transformed into meadows. There was erected the Château Vert, disappeared.

Ancient acts quote the city church under the invocation of Saint John It was placed at the Clos Vert in the triangle formed by the rue de Grainville, the suburb of Vernon and the chemin de Gamaches-en-Vexin. This place not far from Valtot was in a way the centre of the primitive city and it preserved until the last century the name of Corbelet cemetery at the place of the same name.

Saint-Martin was gathered in the village of Étrépagny on February 2, 1809.

The village was ravaged by a Prussian column during the 1870 war.

On Friday, May 15, 1964, while digging a pit for the construction of a rocker for the sugar factory, stone sarcophagi, containing skeletons in a perfect state of conservation were unearthed.

Economy The municipality is a large village surrounded by a countryside open to cereal and beet growings. There are located the Étrépagny sugar factory and a Paulstra factory, specialized in the manufacture of rubber articles.

Local culture and heritage Places and monuments In 2016, the municipality has 1 monument listed in the inventory of historical monuments, 16 monuments or buildings listed in the General Inventory of Cultural Heritage (IGPC), 4 items listed in the inventory of historical objects and 33 objects listed in the IPC. • Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais Church built in the 14th and 15th centuries, on a Latin cross plan Registered MH (2009)52. It was restored following a fire in December 1929 and opened on stained glass windows by François Décorchemont, which earned it the benefit of the "Heritage of the 20th Century" label. • 19th century town hall, its walls built of red bricks and white limestones carry a long slate roof lined with dormers on the facade, and surmounted by a square wooden bell tower with four clocks). The murals of the wedding hall are the work of the painter Jean Fernand-Trochain. • Former convent of the Dominican sisters installed in 1878 by the châtelains of Étrépagny, including Marie Étiennette Isabelle de Vatimesnil. The neo-Romanesque chapel, illuminated with modern stained glass windows, is converted into a toy library-media library. • Remains of the castle of Étrépagny, xi / xviie century, in the property of Dominican nuns. • The Château Saint-Martin, which belonged to the mayor between 1827 and 1910. • The mansion of Mansigny, near the current post office, was built in all the first years of the 17th century and replaced the previous one, burned around 1595 by the inhabitants who had rallied to the League, while the lord of Mansigny was an officer in the armies of the Duke of Longueville, Baron of Étrépagny, attached to King Henry IV of France • Louis-Anquetin College makes room there. • Étrépagny Aerodrome.