Etampes
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Essonne | |
| Arrondissement | Etampes | |
| Canton | Étampes (main town) | |
| Community association | Étampois Sud Essonne | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 26 ' N , 2 ° 10' E | |
| height | 66–156 m | |
| surface | 40.92 km 2 | |
| Residents | 25.092 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 613 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 91150 | |
| INSEE code | 91223 | |
| Website | www.mairie-etampes.fr | |
 Hotel de Ville (town hall) |
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Etampes is a French municipality with 25,092 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Essonne in the region of Ile-de-France ; it belongs to the Arrondissement of Étampes and is the administrative seat of ten cantons . Étampes is located around 49 kilometers south of Paris and 60 kilometers north of Orléans . The city is crossed by the Juine River. A few kilometers outside in the southwest is the Etampes-Mondésir airfield .
history
On December 25, 604, the city was the theater of war in one of the many Merovingian fratricidal wars . Here the Neustrian troops under Chlothar II met the Burgundian troops of Theuderic II hurrying towards Paris and were defeated, so that afterwards Paris fell into the hands of the Burgundians.
In the Middle Ages, Étampes was the capital of the county of Étampes . In 1514 the city was granted the right by the king to elect its own city council and to build a “maison commune”.
In 1652 the Battle of Étampes took place here as part of the conflict with the Fronde
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| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 |
| Residents | 13,515 | 16,493 | 19,651 | 19,386 | 21,457 | 21,839 | 22,182 |
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Étampes
Secular buildings
- The Tour de Guinette as a ruin of Étampes Castle
- Hotel de Ville
- Hotel Anne-de-Pisseleu
- Theater ( architect Gabriel Davioud ) built 1851–1852
Religious buildings
- Church Notre-Dame-du-Fort
- Saint-Basile church
- Saint-Martin church with its leaning tower
- Saint-Gilles Church
- Gérofosse chapel
- Guinette Chapel
Church Notre-Dame-du-Fort
Church Saint-Basile
Saint Martin Church
Saint-Gilles Church
The churches shown, like the Hôtel de Ville and the Hôtel Anne-de-Pisseleu, are listed as Monuments historiques .
Town twinning
The twin town of Étampes is the German town of Borna in Saxony .
Personalities
- Karl von Évreux (1305–1336), Count of Étampes
- Ludwig (Étampes) (probably early 1336–1400), Count of Étampes
- John II (1415–1491), Count of Étampes
- Francis II (1435–1488), Count of Étampes
- Johann von Foix (after 1450–1500), Count of Étampes
- Gaston de Foix (1489–1512), general, Count of Étampes
- Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly (1508–1547), lover of King Francis I , Duchess of Étampes
- Diane de Poitiers (1499–1566), Duchess of Etampes from 1553
- Gabrielle d'Estrées (around 1570–1599), Duchess of Étampes
- César de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (1594–1665), Duke of Étampes
- Basile Fleureau (1612–1668), historian
- Louis I de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (1612–1669), Duke of Étampes
- Louis II Joseph de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (1654–1712), Duke of Étampes
- Jean-Etienne Guettard (1715-1786), scholar, natural scientist, doctor, one of the founders of the manufactory of Sèvres
- Marie-Alexandre Guénin (1744–1835), violinist and composer, spent the last years of his life in Étampes and died here
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), naturalist, founder of the menagerie in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris
- Abel Dufresne (1788–1872), writer
- Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805–1861), scholar, naturalist, founder of the Société d'acclimatation and the Jardin d'acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne . Forerunner of modern genetics , born in Étampes
- Narcisse Berchère (1819–1891), painter and lithographer
- Elias Robert (1819–1874), painter and sculptor
- Rose Chéri (1824–1861), actress, born in Étampes
- Félix Giacomotti (1828–1909), painter of Italian origin, winner of the Prix de Rome 1854
- Léon Marquis (1843–1905), historian
- Louise Abbéma (1853–1927), painter of the Belle Epoche
- Rose Chéri (1824–1861), actress, born in Étampes on October 27, 1824
- Anna Chéri (1826–1912), actress, born in Étampes
- Henri Manhès (1889–1959), journalist , colonel , Resistance fighter, head of the French brigade of the International Military Organization (IMO) in Buchenwald concentration camp , member of the international camp committee and honorary president of the FIR
- Philippe Legendre-Kvater (* 1947), painter, born in Étampes
- Christian Binet (* 1947), draftsman (Les Bidochons, Kador…), lives in Étampes
- Olivier Soulliaert , painter of the École de peinture d'Étampes
- Brigitte Jacquot , singer
- Yann Le Puits (* 1951), writer, born in Étampes
- Arnaud Beltrame (1973–2018), lieutenant colonel in the national gendarmerie, victim of terrorism
- Jean-Victor Makengo (* 1998), football player
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de l'Essonne. Flohic Éditions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-126-0 , pp. 307-321.
