Reuil-en-Brie

Commune in Île-de-France, France

Coat of arms

Location of Reuil-en-Brie

(2020–2026) Patrick Romanow^[1]Area

5.92 km² (2.29 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

816 • Density140/km² (360/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

77388 /77260

Elevation51–185 m (167–607 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Reuil-en-Brie (French pronunciation: [ʁœj ɑ̃ bʁi] ^ⓘ, literally Reuil in Brie) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

The settlement grew up around the monastery founded by Rado, a mayor of the palace of Burgundy,^[3] in about 630, which from his name was called Radolium.^[4] In later times it was a priory of Cluny.

Population

The inhabitants are called Reuillois.

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	312	—
1975	378	+2.78%
1982	388	+0.37%
1990	508	+3.43%
1999	819	+5.45%
2007	865	+0.69%
2012	832	−0.77%
2017	834	+0.05%
Source: INSEE^[5]

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.
^ Identified as "Rado (who, like Audoin, spent much of his career as court referendary), [and] was the founder of yet another monastery, 'Radolium,' at Reuil-en-Brie" (Barbara H. Rosenwein, Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe 1999:62 and notes).
^ quod ex suo nomine Radolium vocavit (Life of St. Agile, ca 684–690 (Acta Sanctorum, August VI:582), noted in Pierre-Henri Billy, Patrociny settlement names in France).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE