Thorigny-sur-Marne
Thorigny-sur-Marne | |
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 The town hall of Thorigny-sur-Marne | |
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Location of Thorigny-sur-Marne  | |
  Thorigny-sur-Marne  Thorigny-sur-Marne | |
| Coordinates: 48°53′04″N 2°42′51″E / 48.8844°N 2.7142°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Seine-et-Marne |
| Arrondissement | Torcy |
| Canton | Lagny-sur-Marne |
| Intercommunality | Marne et Gondoire |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Manuel Luis Da Silva[1] |
Area 1 | 5.17 km2 (2.00 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 10,405 |
| • Density | 2,000/km2 (5,200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 77464 /77400 |
| Elevation | 38–122 m (125–400 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Thorigny-sur-Marne (French pronunciation: [tɔʁiɲi syʁ maʁn] , literally Thorigny on Marne) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
Demographics
[edit]Inhabitants of Thorigny-sur-Marne are called Thorigniens.
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| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 5,768 | — |
| 1975 | 7,059 | +2.93% |
| 1982 | 7,596 | +1.05% |
| 1990 | 8,326 | +1.15% |
| 1999 | 9,029 | +0.90% |
| 2007 | 9,386 | +0.49% |
| 2012 | 9,107 | −0.60% |
| 2017 | 10,154 | +2.20% |
| Source: INSEE[3] | ||
Education
[edit]As of 2016[update] the three preschools have 376 students, and the three elementary schools have 640 students. The preschools are: Ecole Maternellle Les Cerisiers, Ecole Maternelle Clémenceau, and Ecole Maternelle Les Pointes. The elementary schools are Ecole Elémentaire Les Cerisiers, Ecole Elémentaire Gambetta, and Ecole Elémentaire Les Pointes.[4] The commune has one junior high school, Collège du Moulin à vent, and a vocational high school, Lycée Auguste Perdonnet. The area general senior high school/sixth form college, Lycée Van Dongen, is in Lagny-sur-Marne.[5]
History
[edit]In 1649, during the reign of Louis XIV, Thorigny-Sur-Marne was brutally pillaged for 12 days by the Regiment de Conti after agreeing to give them quarter.[6] Witnesses describe how they "used extraordinary violence, having beaten and ransomed the inhabitants, pillaged and burned their furnishings...cut down their fruit trees...eaten and scattered their flock."[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ "Les écoles." Thorigny-sur-Marne. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
- ^ "Enseignement secondaire." Thorigny-sur-Marne. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
- ^ Lynn, John A. “How War Fed War: The Tax of Violence and Contributions during the Grand Siècle.” The Journal of Modern History 65, no. 2 (1993): 286. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2124447.
- ^ "Requête des habitans du bourg de Thorigny, eslection de Sens," from an order of February 10, 1650, in Peter Jonathan Berger, "Military and Financial Government in France, 1648-1661" (Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1979), p. 94.
External links
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- Official site (in French)
- 1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région (in English)
- Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
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