title: Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan
text: # Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan
  
  Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.
  
  ## Geography
  
  A farming village in the Pays de Caux, situated some 21 miles (34 km) east of Le Havre, on the D81 and D281 roads, by the banks of the meandering river Seine, which forms the commune's southern border.
  
  ## Places of interest
  
  * The church of St. Maurice, dating from the fifteenth century.
  * The fourteenth-century chateau.
  
  ## People
  
  * Félix Faure (1841–1899), 7th president of France
  * André Bettencourt (1919–2007), government minister
  * Ernest Picard-Destelan (in French), French navy officer
  * Laurence de Cambronne (1951–), editor in chief of the magazine Elle
  