The school town hall

School was held periodically since the 17th century at the whim of the priests or vicar.

Thus in 1672, Raulin Enguerren, a priest, gave the Treasury a masure house which in 1691 served as a school, then 30 years later in 1703 Charles Le Michel, a priest buried in the choir gave the Factory eight acres of land and a house for school use.

However, in 1714, Monseigneur d'Aubigné, archbishop of Rouen, did not find a school at La Rue Saint Pierre, and neither did Nicolas Taine, parish priest and dean of Braquetuit, during his visit in 1719.

When Martial de St Aulaire, a great archdeacon, visited the church in 1757, he reported that Thomas Le Massif, vicar of the parish for 3 1/2 years, "did his duty well". He ran the schools and "the children questioned about catechism were found well educated". Louis Lemoine, a vicar, who taught in 1776, was not paid enough, so the parishioners decided to provide him with treatment.

It was not until 1833, thanks to the Guizot Act, that the municipalities were forced to maintain a primary school and a teacher, and the school became permanent.

It was not until 1836, however, that the municipality voted on the equipment budget i.e a wooden table in the shape of a double desk of 3 m 66 on trestles, a wooden plank, a map of France, a stove, a departmental map, 30 reading boards, an oak blackboard, a reading manual, a teaching manual.

In 1838, its thatched roof was in very poor condition and the municipality decided to repair it. It was undertaken by Theodore Lecomte, a thatched roofer at La Rue St Pierre and renewed by the same craftsman in 1855.

Tired of these costly repairs, the city council and its mayor, Juste Lenormand, decided in 1867 to begin the construction of a new building for a town hall, a teacher's home and a school for boys and girls. The location of the old school was retained. The plans were approved the same year and the work carried out a year later, by Mr Sevestre of Fontaine le Bourg and Morel of Cailly, building contractors, for nearly 12,000 frs.

The school was completed 10 years later, in 1878, by two covered playgrounds for boys and girls.

Electricity, on the other hand, was installed fifty years later in 1929.