Nogent-sur-Marne
Nogent-sur-Marne is a
commune in the eastern suburbs of
Paris,
France. It is located 10.6 km. (6.6 miles) from the
center of Paris. Nogent-sur-Marne is a
sous-préfecture of the
Val-de-Marne département, being the seat of the
Arrondissement of Nogent-sur-Marne. It is one of the most densely populated municipalities in
Europe.
Several origins of the name are proposed:
Novigentum , "new people", i.e. prisoners brought by the Roman armies.:Nov. indicates fatty or soaked grounds.:Novientum which is the Gallic equivalent of Villeneuve medieval.
In the Middle Ages, several castles were built. Le Chateau de Plaisance, built in the XIIIth century, which hosted
Charles V and
Jeanne de Bourbon in 1375. The only vestige which remains is a house of the current private hospital, 30 rue de Plaisance, as well as the bottom of the enclosing wall of the gardens. Le Chateau de Beauté sur Marne, XIVth century, is a royal stay.
Cardinal de Richelieu destroyed it in 1626.
In the XVIIth century, whereas the rural population wass made up of a majority of vine growers, the middle-class discovered the charms of the country, and settled in Nogent.
Jean-Antoine Watteau lived in Mr. Lefevre's house his last moments and died there in 1721.
The construction of the two railway lines : Paris-Mulhouse and Bastille-La Varenne in the 1850's still accelerated the process. The viaduct, built by Auvergnats and Belgians is destroyed once in September 15, 1870. Italians rebuilt it; an Italian community was established there. Coming, for the majority, from the province of Piacenza, they were from the Valley of Nure or from the south of Tyrol.
Isolated since 1854 by the construction of a viaduct for the Paris-Mulhouse line, the commune of Le Perreux sur Marne is born after a fight of more than 10 years in 1887. On
February 28,
1887, more than half of the territory of Nogent-sur-Marne was detached and became the commune of
Le Perreux-sur-Marne.
In
1929, the commune of Nogent-sur-Marne lost a small part of its territory when the city of Paris annexed the
Bois de Vincennes, the eastern fringe of which belonged to Nogent-sur-Marne.
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Yverdon-les-Bains ()
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Siegburg ()
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Val Nure ()
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Castiglione dei Pepoli ()
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Nazaré ()
Nogent-sur-Marne is served by
Nogent-sur-Marne station on Paris
RER line A.
It is also served by
Nogent – Le Perreux station on Paris
RER line E.
Former mayors
* Antoine Louis René Prosper Bauyn De Perreuse from
1834 to
1868* Émile Brisson from
1907 to
1919* Pierre Champion from
1919 to
1942* Roland Nungesser from
1959 to
1995* Estelle Debæker from
1995 to
2001Painters of Nogent-sur-Marne
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Louis Vuillermoz*
Paul Girol*
Maurice Boitel*
Daniel du Janerand*
Nogent-sur-Marne official website
