Champigny-sur-Marne

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Champigny-sur-Marne
Champigny-sur-Marne coat of arms
Champigny-sur-Marne (France)
Champigny-sur-Marne
region Île-de-France
Department Val-de-Marne
Arrondissement Nogent-sur-Marne
Canton Champigny-sur-Marne-1 and Champigny-sur-Marne-2
Community association Métropole du Grand Paris and
Paris Est Marne et Bois
Coordinates 48 ° 49 ′  N , 2 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′  N , 2 ° 31 ′  E
height 32-106 m
surface 11.30 km 2
Residents 77,630 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 6,870 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 94500
INSEE code 94017
Website http://www.champigny94.fr/

Champigny, old town hall from 1857

Champigny-sur-Marne is a French city with 77,630 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), about 16 kilometers south-east of central Paris , in a loop of the Marne River. The inhabitants are called Campinois or Campiniens .

District

Champigny-sur-Marne consists of 12 districts:

  • Bois-l'Abbé
  • Center
  • Cités Jardins - Les Boullereaux
  • Coeuilly - Les Perroquets
  • Les Coteaux - Musselburgh
  • Le Plant
  • Le Plant - Curie
  • Maroc
  • Mordacs
  • plateau
  • Tremblay
  • Village Parisien

population

Champigny-sur-Marne is the third largest city in the Val-de-Marne department. Across France, it ranks 59th in terms of population. About 54% of the population are 39 years or younger. This makes Champigny-sur-Marne a city with a relatively young population.

St. Saturninus

Religions

There are five Catholic parishes in Champigny-sur-Marne, all of which belong to the Diocese of Créteil : Heart of Mary (Coeuilly), St. Joseph (Tremblay), St. Saturninus ( Monument historique ), St. Bernadette and St. Maria (Le Plant) .

traffic

The city has a Les Boullereaux-Champigny train station on the Paris – Mulhouse railway line . This is from the RER - line E operated (line branch E4). There is another station called Champigny in the RER network on line A (branch A2). This is located on the other bank of the Marne in the town of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés .

Attractions

See: List of the Monuments historiques in Champigny-sur-Marne

Town twinning

Personalities

Born in Champigny

Associated with Champigny

  • Jacques Inaudi (1867–1950), Italian mental arithmetic artist, died in Champigny-sur-Marne
  • Madame Polaire (1874–1939), dancer, singer and actress, died in Champigny-sur-Marne in 1939 and was buried there
  • Georges Marchais (1920–1997), politician and trade unionist, head of the French Communist Party from 1972 to 1994, buried in Champigny-sur-Marne

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-de-Marne . 2nd Edition. Flohic Editions, Charenton-le-Pont 1994, ISBN 2-908958-94-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Les paroisses. Diocese of Créteil, accessed on September 24, 2015 (French).

Web links

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