Ville-sous-la-Ferté

Ville-sous-la-Ferté
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 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
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

Part of Clairvaux Monastery (today's entrance to the penal system)
St. Martin Church

Personalities

Claude-Henri Belgrand de Vaubois (1748–1839), division general

Web links

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