Marcoussis
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Essonne | |
| Arrondissement | Palaiseau | |
| Canton | Les Ulis | |
| Community association | Paris-Saclay | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 39 ′ N , 2 ° 14 ′ E | |
| height | 65-172 m | |
| surface | 16.80 km 2 | |
| Residents | 8,139 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 484 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 91460 | |
| INSEE code | 91363 | |
| Website | www.marcoussis.fr | |
Marcoussis is a French municipality with 8139 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Essonne in the region of Ile-de-France ; it belongs to the Arrondissement Palaiseau and the canton Les Ulis .
The city is located about 25 km south of the center of Paris and until the 1960s was a city of vegetable growing, which supplied the halls of Paris mainly with tomatoes and strawberries.
Neighboring communities
- in the canton of Montlhéry : Linas , Montlhéry , Nozay , Saint-Jean-de-Beauregard , La Ville-du-Bois
- in the canton of Arpajon (same arrondissement): Ollainville
- in the canton of Limours (same arrondissement): Fontenay-lès-Briis , Janvry
- in the canton of Les Ulis (same arrondissement): Les Ulis ;
- in the canton of Villebon-sur-Yvette (same arrondissement): Villejust
history
The settlement developed around the Priory Saint Wandrille, branch of the abbey of the same name in Normandy . 854 a document mentions Charles the Bald's possession in Marcoussis, initially just a Bution winery near Arpajon . When the Bution monastery was lost, the monks moved to Marcoussis at the beginning of the 12th century. At the end of the 13th century, a monk lived here with a population of 120.
From 1404 to 1408, Jean de Montaigu , the adviser to Charles VI. , build his castle here, of which only the foundation walls of a tower, Les Oubliettes, are left today, rebuild the monastery and fill it with Celestine monks , and restore the parish church, which today houses a marble statue of Mary, Duke Johann von Berry gave to the convent.
Later owners of Marcoussis were the Malet de Graville and the Balzac d'Entragues .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 |
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| Residents | 2,187 | 2,635 | 3,980 | 4,465 | 5,680 | 7,226 | 7,647 | 7,987 |
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Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Marcoussis
- Parish church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine from the time of Jean de Montaigus with the statue of Mary, a work by Jean de Cambrai
- Remains of the Montaigu castle
- Château des Célestins , now the École des Arts
- Remains of the Château de Bellejame
- Commanderie de Déluge (12th century)
Personalities
- Jean de Montaigu (Marmousets) (1363–1409), adviser to the French kings Charles V and Charles VI, founder of the Marcoussis Abbey, builder of one of the castles in Marcoussis
- Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579–1633), daughter of a lord of Marcoussis and lover of King Henry IV.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) spent a few days in Marcoussis in 1750/51
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875) stayed several times with his painter friend Dumax; he left some pictures of it, including the Souvenir de Marcoussis , also called La charette (located in the Musée d'Orsay )
- Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (1816–1889), geographer and cartographer, died in Marcoussis
- Aymar de La Baume Pluvinel (1860–1938), astronomer, member of the Académie des Sciences , born in Marcoussis
- Louis Marcoussis (1878–1941), Polish painter who changed his family name to Marcoussis on the advice of his friend Guillaume Apollinaire
- Léo Roussel (* 1995), racing car driver
Town twinning
- Waldsassen in Bavaria , Germany, since 1970
- Bérégadougou , Burkina Faso , since 1998.
- Mariánské Lázně (formerly Marienbad), Czech Republic , since 2006
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de l'Essonne. Flohic Éditions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-126-0 , pp. 799-804.
