Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt

Saint -Brice- sous- Forêt is a municipality with 14,361 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011), located about 20 km from Paris in the Ile- de -France region. It belongs to Canton and Arrondissement Sarcelles Écouen in the department of Val- d'Oise. Alain Lorand is since March 2008 the mayor of the municipality of Saint -Brice- sous- Forêt.

History

The name of the village comes from the same Holy Brictius of Tours (c. 370, † 444), also Britius, Brixius, Briccius or Bricio, this was the fourth Bishop of Tours, and successor of St. Peter. Martin in this office. A document from the 13th century has to the village of the reign of the noble family of Montmorency. In the 18th century it belonged to the Earl of Vienna, Brigadier of the Armies of the King.

Demographics

Attractions

• Pavillon Colombe, built in the 18th century ( Monument historique )

Personalities

• The ecologist and agricultural scientist René Dubos (1901-1982) was born in Saint -Brice- sous- Forêt.
• Paul Éluard (1895-1952), one of the most famous poets of Surrealism, bought after the First World War a house and invited Max Ernst, André Breton and Robert Desnos to his home to Saint -Brice- sous- Forêt.
• The American writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937), originally from a New York patrician family, who lived from 1919 until her death in Saint -Brice- sous- Forêt; a street was named after her.