Yonville-l'Abbaye (so called from an old Capuchin abbey of which not even the ruins remain) is a market-town twenty-four miles from Rouen, between the Abbeville and Beauvais roads, at the foot of a valley watered by the Rieule, a little river that runs into the Andelle after turning three water-mills near its mouth, where there are a few trout that the lads amuse themselves by fishing for on Sundays.
Yonville-l'Abbaye (jada hondakinik ere geratzen ez den aintzinako Kaputxinoen komentu bat zela eta horrela izendatua) Rouendik zortzi legoatara dagoen herri bat da, Abbevilleko errepidearen eta Beauvaiskoaren artean, Rieule erreka txikiak ureztatzen duen haranaren zokoan, bere bokale aldera hiru errota jira arazi ondoren Andellera jaurtikitzen dena, eta honetan amuarrain batzuk ere izaten dira, zeinak kainaberaz arrantzatzen mutikoak igandetan laketzen diren.