Nogent-sur-Seine
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Nogent-sur-Seine | |
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Subprefecture and commune | |
 Watermill on the Seine | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Nogent-sur-Seine  | |
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| Coordinates: 48°29′39″N 3°30′12″E / 48.4942°N 3.5033°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Aube |
| Arrondissement | Nogent-sur-Seine |
| Canton | Nogent-sur-Seine |
| Intercommunality | Nogentais |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Estelle Bomberger-Rivot[1] |
Area 1 | 20.08 km2 (7.75 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 5,809 |
| • Density | 290/km2 (750/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 10268 /10400 |
| Elevation | 60–113 m (197–371 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Nogent-sur-Seine (French pronunciation: [nɔʒɑ̃ syʁ sɛn] ) is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. The headquarters of The Soufflet Group is located here, as is the Musée Camille Claudel. The large Nogent Nuclear Power Plant is also located here.
Population
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Personalities
[edit]Sculptor Camille Claudel lived in Nogent-sur-Seine with her family from 1876 to 1879.
Frédéric Moreau, the hero of Gustave Flaubert's novel Sentimental Education, is a native of Nogent-sur-Seine.
The abbey of Nogent-sur-Seine was destroyed during the French Revolution. Fragments of it were used in 1817 in making the canopy over the graves of Pierre Abélard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
International relations
[edit]Nogent-sur-Seine is twinned with:
- Rielasingen-Worblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - since 1973
- Joal-Fadiouth, Senegal - 1987
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Nogent-sur-Seine, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nogent-sur-Seine.
- Official town website (in French)
- Dubois-Boucher Museum in Nogent-sur-Seine (in French)[dead link]
- Félix Charpentier. Sculpture in musée Paul Dubois-Alfred Boucher
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