Filature, tissage et usine d'apprêt des étoffes de laine Fraenckel, puis Fraenckel-Blin, puis Fraenckel-Herzog.

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History

After the 1870 war, the Fraenckel brothers, Alsatian cloth manufacturers, settled in Elbeuf to continue their business. Having first been content to rent buildings and machinery, they had a vast integrated factory constructed in 1880. In 1914, after breaking with the Blin family, the Fraenckel brothers associated with the Herzog brothers, one of whom is better known under his pen name André Maurois. In 1918, with the establishment of a spinning mill and a dyeworks in neighbouring communes, the Fraenckel-Herzog company proceeded to a reorganisation of work: the Elbeuf unit was then assigned to weaving and finishing of woollen cloth. With a total of 1500 workers in 1929 and an area of 17000 m2, this establishment was, after the Blin et Blin company, the second factory in Elbeuf. Since its closure at the end of the 1960s, several buildings have disappeared. There nevertheless remains a vast workshop in bicoloured brickwork and with metal roof structure which presents interesting decorative elements such as flat pilasters and ties with the initials F-B, recalling the union of the Fraenckel and Blin families at the time of the factory's construction. Adjoining this building stands the boiler house where three immense boilers from the Veillet-Lescure workshop in Amiens (Somme) are still in place. The municipality is considering establishing a textile museum in the protected part of the factory which it owns.