Mitry-Mory

Mitry-Mory
Commune
The town Hall of Mitry-Mory
Coat of arms
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Location of Mitry-Mory
Mitry-Mory Mitry-Mory
Coordinates: 48°59′00″N 2°37′00″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-et-Marne
Arrondissement	Meaux
Canton	Mitry-Mory
Intercommunality	CA Roissy Pays de France
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Charlotte Blandiot-Faride
Area 1	29.95 km2 (11.56 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	20,627
• Density	690/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	77294 /77290
Elevation	53–106 m (174–348 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Mitry-Mory (French pronunciation: [mitʁi mɔʁi] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris 24.4 km (15.2 mi) from the center just off the N2 national highway.

About one-sixth of Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) (essentially runways and taxiways) lies on the territory of the commune of Mitry-Mory—mostly at the end of the runway. The construction of CDG caused the closure of the prewar Mitry-Mory airfield in the late 1960s. From the air, the most prominent feature, aside from farmland, is the Great circle (or round-about) of Rue de la Garenne, a feature which forms a wagon wheel like structure with spokes forming a cross in which a crucifix building is surrounded by another inter-circle round-about. It is also a major railroad centre. Another very prominent feature is a huge parking lot for such a small commune.

Many of the streets and roads are named for famous people: Mozart, Guy-Lussac, Léon Foucault, Berlioz, Picasso, Gauguin among others — some of whom actually visited there.

Mitry-Mory is very convenient to Paris and a less expensive place to live for those who work in Paris but prefer the commute by train or road.

Twin towns

It is twinned with the English town of Prudhoe in Northumberland.

History

The commune of Mitry-Mory was created in 1839 by the merger of the commune of Mitry with the commune of Mory. The commune town hall (mairie) is located in Mitry. The Commune Church contains a very important Pipe Organ which survived the French Revolution and was used by Gene Bedient as a model in his studies of French Organs to build similar ones in the United States.

Demographics

Inhabitants are called Mitryens.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	13,122	—
1975	13,741	+0.66%
1982	12,731	−1.08%
1990	15,205	+2.24%
1999	16,869	+1.16%
2007	18,348	+1.06%
2012	19,147	+0.86%
2017	19,931	+0.81%
Source: INSEE

Transportation

The Commune shares an RER station with the neighboring commune of Villeparisis on the RER B line with the Villeparisis–Mitry-le-Neuf station. It is also served by Mitry–Claye station, which is an interchange station on Paris RER line B and on the Transilien Paris-Nord suburban rail line. The commune is an important rail center.

Education

Schools in the commune include:

• Preschools (écoles maternelles)
  • Acacias: Guy Môquet and Vincent van Gogh
  • Bourg: Anne-Claude Godeau and Jacqueline Quatremaire
  • Mitry-le-Neuf: Elsa Triolet, Emile Zola, and Jean de la Fontaine
• Primary schools:
  • Acacias: Guy Môquet and Vincent van Gogh
  • Bourg: François Couperin and Jean-Moulin
  • Mitry-le-Neuf: Irène et Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Henri Barbusse, and Noël Fraboulet
• Junior high schools: Collège Paul Langevin in Mory/Acacias and Collège Erik Satie in Mitry-le-Neuf
• Lycée Honoré de Balzac in Mory/Acacias, a senior high school/sixth-form college

See also

• Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department

External links

• Official website (in French)
• 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)