Montfermeil
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Seine-Saint-Denis | |
| Arrondissement | Le Raincy | |
| Canton | Tremblay-en-France | |
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Métropole du Grand Paris and Grand Paris Grand Est |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 54 ' N , 2 ° 34' E | |
| height | 62–117 m | |
| surface | 5.45 km 2 | |
| Residents | 26,783 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 4,914 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 93370 | |
| INSEE code | 93047 | |
| Website | http://www.ville-montfermeil.fr/ | |
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Montfermeil is a French commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the Île-de-France region with an area of 545 hectares and 26,783 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017). The place is about 20 km east of Paris above Chelles at an altitude of 116 m in a chain of hills that rises from the banks of the Marne . It borders the Bondy Forest. The inhabitants are called Montfermeillois .
history
The place where there are archaeological sites with tools and weapons from the Neolithic was first mentioned in 1122 as Monte Firmo, in 1124 as Montfermolio. The name means "closed mountain" or "fortified mountain".
In the Middle Ages, the feudal lord Adam de Montfermeil founded a priory (1164) in what is now called Val d'Adam . During the Hundred Years War the English occupied the market town, through which Joan of Arc passed on September 12, 1429 .
Henry IV founded the Saint Michaels Fair ( Foire de la Saint-Michel ) and granted the privilege of holding a twice-weekly market.
Michel Chamillart , Minister of Louis XIV. Built the castle in the 17th century , in 1742 the old mill from 1575 was replaced by a new one and in 1782 swampy terrain was created by excavating the étang des Sept-Iles ("Pond of the Seven Islands" ) dry.
After the outbreak of the French Revolution , the church partially fell victim to the revolutionaries' destructiveness.
In the 19th century, the mansions of the upper bourgeoisie typical of the Second Empire were built before the place was occupied by German troops at the end of the Franco-Prussian War . In 1896 (?) The Count of Nicolaï parceled out and sold the domain of Montfermeil. The castle was demolished in 1922. After that, the commune, which had been rural until then, like many other Parisian suburbs, changed and expanded as a result of progressive urbanization and ever denser settlement in the banlieue.
Since the 1970s, as in many Parisian suburbs, high-rise buildings have been built using prefabricated panels, which today are mainly inhabited by immigrants from the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa and characterized by social problems. In 2002, the terrorist Slimane Khalfaoui , who allegedly belongs to the Frankfurt group of Al-Qaeda , was arrested in Montfermeil . He is said to have prepared an assassination attempt two years earlier that was to be carried out at the Strasbourg Christmas market.
After parts of Montfermeil had already been affected by the unrest in France in 2005 , there were also serious attacks in spring 2006, in which young people armed with baseball bats threw stones at the home of UMP Mayor Xavier Lemoine . Because of the unrest, the French government decided to give special support to Montfermeil in addition to Clichy-sous-Bois .
Attractions
- Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul Church (13th century, rebuilt after being destroyed in the Revolution in the first half of the 19th century)
- Windmill Moulin du Sempin (1742, faithfully reconstructed 1988)
- Maison de l'Horloge (17th century) with the Museum of the Working World ( Musée du Travail )
- Les Cèdres castle (17th century) and park
- Petit Château (17th century) and its farm buildings
- Maison Vuillemin (17th century)
- Le Vieux Logis (18th century)
- House of the historian Frantz Funck-Brentano (Empire style)
- Maison du Mûrier (18th century)
- Fontaine Jean Valjean
- Church Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes (19th century)
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Montfermeil
Personalities
The following people have lived in Montfermeil:
- Prince Adam Georg Czartoryski (1770–1861, † in Montfermeil), Russian foreign minister and head of government of the Polish revolutionary government from 1830
- Jean-Baptiste Clément, chansonnier and Mayor of Montmartre
- Camille Corot (1796–1875), painter
- Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878), painter
- Georges Seurat (1859-1891), painter
- Frantz Funck-Brentano (1862–1947), historian and playwright
- Eugène Chaboud (1907–1983), Formula 1 and sports car racing driver
- Raffaëla Anderson (* 1976), porn actress
- Abdoul Diakité (* 1986), football player
- Alix Kévynn Nyokas (* 1986), handball player
- Olivier Nyokas (* 1986), handball player
- Metehan Güçlü (* 1999), football player
Trivia
Paul de Kock set the action of the Laitière de Montfermeil in Montfermeil and Victor Hugo that of Die Elenden ( Les Misérables ) .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-Saint-Denis. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-84234-133-3 , pp. 195–205.
