Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne
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 Commanderie of the Knights Templar | |
.svg) Coat of arms | |
Location of Coulommiers  | |
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| Coordinates: 48°49′29″N 3°06′24″E / 48.8247°N 3.1068°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Seine-et-Marne |
| Arrondissement | Meaux |
| Canton | Coulommiers |
| Intercommunality | CA Coulommiers Pays de Brie |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Laurence Picard[1] |
Area 1 | 10.93 km2 (4.22 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 15,250 |
| • Density | 1,400/km2 (3,600/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 77131 /77120 |
| Elevation | 66–156 m (217–512 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Coulommiers (French pronunciation: [kulɔmje] ⓘ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.
It is also the name of a cheese of the Brie family produced around that city. Coulommiers station has rail connections to Tournan-en-Brie and Paris.
The town has a statue to Commandant Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire who, in 1792, killed himself rather than surrender Verdun to the Prussians.[3]
Demographics
[edit]Inhabitants of Coulommiers are called Columériens.
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| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 11,263 | — |
| 1975 | 11,498 | +0.30% |
| 1982 | 11,886 | +0.48% |
| 1990 | 13,087 | +1.21% |
| 1999 | 13,852 | +0.63% |
| 2007 | 13,649 | −0.18% |
| 2012 | 14,708 | +1.51% |
| 2017 | 14,838 | +0.18% |
| Source: INSEE[4] | ||
Twin towns
[edit]Coulommiers was twinned with Leighton Buzzard in 1958[5] and with Titisee-Neustadt in 1971. The twinning was renewed in 1982.
History
[edit]Coulommiers was selected to be the first town in France to go fully digital for its terrestrial television, with analog switch-off in January 2009.
Notable people
[edit]- André Roussimoff, better known as André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor (though was billed as hailing from "Grenoble, in the French Alps)
- Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire, military officer
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coulommiers". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 308.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ "British towns twinned with French towns". Archant Community Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-07-11.
External links
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- Official website of Coulommiers
- 1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région) (in English)
- Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
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