Le Perreux-sur-Marne
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region | Île-de-France | |
Department | Val-de-Marne | |
Arrondissement | Nogent-sur-Marne | |
Canton | Nogent-sur-Marne | |
Community association |
Métropole du Grand Paris and Paris Est Marne et Bois |
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Coordinates | 48 ° 51 ′ N , 2 ° 30 ′ E | |
height | 35-70 m | |
surface | 3.95 km 2 | |
Residents | 33,879 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 8,577 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 94170 | |
INSEE code | 94058 | |
Website | http://www.leperreux94.fr/ | |
![]() Railway bridge over the Marne |
Le Perreux-sur-Marne is a commune with 33,879 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Val-de-Marne in the region Ile-de-France ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Nogent-sur-Marne and was the administrative seat of the canton of Le Perreux-sur-Marne until its dissolution in 2015 , since then the municipality has belonged to the canton of Nogent-sur-Marne .
Le Perreux-sur-Marne is located in the Paris basin between Fontenay-sous-Bois in the northwest, Neuilly-sur-Marne in the northeast, Bry-sur-Marne in the east and Champigny-sur-Marne in the south, on the banks of the Marne . Until the end of the 19th century, Le Perreux still belonged to the city of Nogent-sur-Marne , which lies on the western municipal boundary.
history
Le Perreux-sur-Marne was mentioned as early as the Middle Ages under the Latin name Petrosa in the books of the Abbey of Saint-Maur in 1284. There has also been a manor house in the village since the 13th century. In 1910 there was a great flood. Large parts of the city had been flooded by the Marne.
Population development
- 1891: 6,699
- 1901: 11.149
- 1911: 15.971
- 1921: 17.915
- 1931: 23,808
- 1936: 23,553
- 1946: 23.086
- 1962: 27,900
- 1968: 29,099
- 1975: 28.333
- 1982: 27,647
- 1990: 28,477
- 1999: 30.080
- 2006: 32,067
- 2011: 33,214
from 1962 only residents with primary residence
Attractions
- The 16th century château
- The Saint-Jean-Baptiste church (built in Romanesque style at the end of the 19th century on the foundations of the earlier 12th century church)
- Several buildings from the architectural style of modernism from the first half of the 20th century
Personalities
- Ernst Friedrich (1894–1967), pacifist anarchist
- René Magritte (1898–1967), Surrealist painter
- Germaine Sablon (1899–1985), actress and resistance fighter
- Jean-Claude Forest (1930–1998), cartoonist
- Jean-Paul Alègre (* 1951), playwright
- Philippe Lioret (* 1955), director
- Pascal Amoyel (* 1971), composer
Town twinning
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-de-Marne . 2nd Edition. Flohic Editions, Charenton-le-Pont 1994, ISBN 2-908958-94-5 .