PONT AUDEMER  , a town of north-western France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Eure, 39 M . N.W. of Evreux, on the Risle, a left-bank affluent of the Seine, and on the railway from Evreux to Honfleur . Pop . (1906), 5700 . The church of St Ouen, which has fine stained glass of the 16th century, combines the late Gothic and Renaissance styles; its choir is Romanesque . Local institutions are the sub-prefecture, a tribunal of first instance, a board of trade-arbitration, a chamber and tribunal of commerce . Manufacturing industry is active, and includes the founding of malleable metal, a spur factory, the manufacture of glue and paper, cotton-spinning and various branches of leather manufacture . There is trade in flax, wool, grain, cattle, cider, paper, iron, wood and coal . The port has a length of over half a mile on the Risle, which is navigable for small vessels from this point to its mouth (10 m.) . The town owes its name to Audomar, a Frank lord, who in the 7th or 8th century built a bridge over the Risle at this point . It was the scene of several provincial ecclesiastical councils in the 12th and 13th centuries and of meetings of the estates of Normandy in the 13th century .