Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne

Commune in Île-de-France, France

Coat of arms

Location of Coulommiers

(2020–2026) Laurence Picard^[1]Area

10.93 km² (4.22 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

15,250 • Density1,400/km² (3,600/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

77131 /77120

Elevation66–156 m (217–512 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Coulommiers (French pronunciation: [kulɔmje] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.

It is also the name of a cheese of the Brie family produced around that city. Coulommiers station has rail connections to Tournan-en-Brie and Paris.

The town has a statue to Commandant Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire who, in 1792, killed himself rather than surrender Verdun to the Prussians.^[3]

Demographics

Inhabitants of Coulommiers are called Columériens.

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	11,263	—
1975	11,498	+0.30%
1982	11,886	+0.48%
1990	13,087	+1.21%
1999	13,852	+0.63%
2007	13,649	−0.18%
2012	14,708	+1.51%
2017	14,838	+0.18%
Source: INSEE^[4]

Twin towns

Coulommiers was twinned with Leighton Buzzard in 1958^[5] and with Titisee-Neustadt in 1971. The twinning was renewed in 1982.

History

Coulommiers was selected to be the first town in France to go fully digital for its terrestrial television, with analog switch-off in January 2009.

Notable people

André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor
Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire, military officer

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coulommiers". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 308.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "British towns twinned with French towns". Archant Community Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 2013-07-05. Retrieved 2013-07-11.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coulommiers.

Official website of Coulommiers
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)