Ville-sous-la-Ferté
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region | Grand Est | |
Department | Aube | |
Arrondissement | Bar-sur-Aube | |
Canton | Bar-sur-Aube | |
Community association | Region of Bar-sur-Aube | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 7 ' N , 4 ° 37' E | |
height | 182–333 m | |
surface | 19.77 km 2 | |
Residents | 1,066 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 54 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 10310 | |
INSEE code | 10426 | |
Website | http://www.ville-sous-la-ferte.barsuraube.org/ |
Ville-sous-la-Ferté is a French commune with 1,066 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Grand Est region in the Aube department . The place belongs to the arrondissement Bar-sur-Aube and the canton Bar-sur-Aube . The inhabitants are called Bayas , Claravalliens or Gueules Noires depending on the town .
geography
Ville-sous-la-Ferté is about 57 kilometers east-southeast of Troyes on the Aube , which borders the municipality in the east. Ville-sous-la-Ferté is surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of Baroville in the north and north-west, Bayel in the north-east, Longchamp-sur-Aujon in the east and north-east, Juvancourt in the east, Laferté-sur-Aube in the south, and Champignol-lez-Mondeville in the West and Arconville to the west and northwest.
The station is on the Paris – Mulhouse line . Autoroute A5 runs along the southern municipal boundary .
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2014 |
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Residents | 1881 | 1854 | 1579 | 1570 | 1451 | 1276 | 1333 | 1084 |
Attractions
- Former Clairvaux monastery , founded in 1115, dissolved in 1791, converted into a prison in the 19th century, a maximum security prison since the 1970s. The communist André Marty was imprisoned here in the 1920s , now the terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (known as Carlos, the jackal) .
- church
Personalities
- Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois (1748–1839), division general