Sézanne
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Marne | |
| Arrondissement | Epernay | |
| Canton | Sézanne-Brie et Champagne | |
| Community association | Sézanne-Sud Ouest Marnais | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 43 ' N , 3 ° 43' E | |
| height | 104-214 m | |
| surface | 22.82 km 2 | |
| Residents | 4,834 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 212 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 51120 | |
| INSEE code | 51535 | |
 Town Hall ( Hôtel de ville ) |
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Sézanne is a French commune with 4,834 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Marne department in the Grand Est region . It belongs to the Arrondissement Épernay and the canton Sézanne-Brie et Champagne (until 2015: canton Sézanne ).
geography
Sézanne is located about 70 km south-southwest of Reims and 110 km east of Paris . The municipality occupies an area of 22.82 km².
Sézanne is the namesake of the Côte de Sézanne . This forms a sector in the southeast of the innermost layer of the Paris Basin , the Côte de l ' Île-de-France . While the altitude above the stratification level ( 214 m ) has wooded areas and is drained from the upper reaches of the Grand Morin River to the west, vineyards have been planted on the abruptly in general east-southeast direction down to 104 m , in the middle of which the village is located in a valley basin . The Côte de Sézanne forms a region in the Champagne wine-growing region .
With a bypass, Route nationale 4 runs through the Sézanne area and crosses the Côte de l'Île-de-France here . Marigny-le-Grand airfield is 12 km to the south-east .
history
In the Ancien Régime , Sézanne was the seat of a Bailli who was under the Généralité de Châlons.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 5300 | 5727 | 6201 | 6048 | 5829 | 5585 | 5187 | 4834 |
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Attractions
- Saint-Denis church
Personalities
- Leonie Aviat (1844–1914), canonized in 2001
- Jean Levaillant (1794–1871), general, son of the researcher François Levaillant
- Raymond Marcellin (1914-2004), politician
- Mellon de Jolly (1795–1872), Archbishop of Sens
- Henry Claude Robert Napias (1842 – unknown), director of the Assistance Publique in Paris
- Jacques-Alexis Thuriot de la Rozière (1753–1829), politician
- Alexis Eugène Thuriot de La Rosière (1807–1876), his son
- Emile Gastebois (1853-1882), lithographer
- Dieudonné Auguste Lancelot (1822–1894), lithographer
- Claude Louis Langlois called Langlois de Sézanne (1757–1845), painter
- Claude François (Frère Luc) (1615–1685), painter
- Louis Hector Pron (1817–1902), painter
Town twinning
- Malsch , Germany, since 1967
