r ELBEOUP, a large manufacturing town of France, in the department of Seine-Inferieure, on the left bank of the Seine, 12 miles S.S.W. of Rouen. The town is generally ill-built, although many improvements have recently been made. The only public buildings worthy of notice are the churches of St Etienne and St Jean-Baptiste; in the latter of which is a stained glass window, presented by the cloth manufacturers of the town about the year 1466, and representing various implements of their craft. Elbeuf has been long celebrated for its woollen manufactures, and is at present the chief seat of that branch of industry in France. Pop. 16,010; more than two-thirds of whom, and also about 2000 of the inhabitants of neighbouring communes, are employed in the manufactures.