Le Perreux-sur-Marne
Le Perreux -sur -Marne is a commune with 33 214 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Val -de- Marne in the Île- de -France region; it belongs to Arrondissement Nogent -sur -Marne and is the administrative center of the canton of Le Perreux -sur- Marne.
Le Perreux -sur -Marne is located in the Paris Basin between Fontenay -sous -Bois in the northwest, Neuilly -sur -Marne in the northeast, Bry -sur -Marne to the east and Champigny -sur -Marne to the south, on the banks of the Marne. By the end of the 19th century Le Perreux still belonged to the city of Nogent -sur- Marne, which lies on the western boundary of the municipality.
History
Le Perreux -sur -Marne had been mentioned already in the Middle Ages under the Latin name Petrosa in the books of the Abbey de Saint -Maur in 1284. Since the 13th century, a manor house there in the place. In 1910 the great flood. Large parts of the city were flooded by the Marne.
Demographics
From 1962 only residents with a primary residence
Attractions
- The Château from the 16th century
- The church of Saint -Jean -Baptiste ( in Romanesque style built in the late 19th century on the foundations of the earlier church from the 12th century)
- Several buildings from the architectural style of modern art from the first half of the 20th century
Personalities
- Ernst Friedrich (1894-1967), pacifist anarchist
- René Magritte (1898-1967), painter of Surrealism
- Germaine Sablon (1899-1985), actress and resistance fighter
- Jean -Claude Forest (1930-1998), cartoonist
- Jean -Paul Alègre ( b. 1951 ), playwright
- Philippe Lioret ( b. 1955 ), director
- Pascal Amoyel (born 1971 ), composer
Twinning
- Lambaréné, Gabon
- Anjou, Quebec, Canada
- Forchheim, Bavaria, Germany ( since 1974)