Le Petit-Quevilly (, locally ) is a

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in the

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department,

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Geography

A residential and light industrial suburb situated inside a

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of the river

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on the opposite bank to

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city centre, at the junction of the D3 and the N338 roads.

Population

Sports

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is based in the commune.

Places of interest

* The recently restored church of St. Pierre, dating from the sixteenth century. * The church of St. Antoine. * The church of St. Bernadette, dating from the sixteenth century. * The recently restored chapel of St. Julien, dating from the twelfth century. * The seventeenth century

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of Queval. * Vestiges of a

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monastery. * An old

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mill, restored and now used as offices and a college. * Amable-et-Micheline-Lozai Stadium

People

Daniel Horlaville Daniel Horlaville (22 September 1945 – 28 April 2019) was a French footballer who played as a midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up ...

, retired professional

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was born here in 1945. *

Patrice Rio Patrice Rio (born 15 August 1948 in Le Petit-Quevilly, Seine-Maritime) is a French former football defender who obtained a total number of 17 international caps for the France national football team in the 1970s. Playing for FC Nantes (1970–19 ...

, retired professional

was born here in 1948. *

Valérie Fourneyron Valérie Fourneyron ( ; born 4 October 1959) is a former French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as Chair of the Board of the International Testing Agency (ITA) since 2017. She previously served as Junior Minister for ...

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was born here in 1959. * Catherine Morin-Desailly,

was born here in 1960. *

Alain Blondel Alain Blondel (born 7 December 1962 in Petit-Quevilly, Seine-Maritime) is a retired French decathlete The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to t ...

, retired

decathlete The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word " pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (''áthlos'', or � ...

was born here in 1962. * Patrick Pouyanné, CEO of Total was born here in 1963. *

Franck Dubosc Franck Dubosc (; born 7 November 1963) is a French actor, comedian and stand-up artist. Dubosc occupies 94th place in the list of the most profitable actors of French cinema.

, actor and comedian was born here in 1963.

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Places of interest

People

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