Be worth-the-Pénil

Be worth-the-Pénil is a common French, located in the department of Seine-et-Marne and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants is called the Penivauxois .

Geography

Be worth-the-Pénil is stuck to Melun, prefecture of Seine-et-Marne, and is located at forty kilometers in the south-east of Paris, in a meander of the the Seine. Because of its proximity with the latter and the plates of the Brie, the relief is rather undulating.

Demography

10.800 inhabitants at the time of the last census. In thirty years, the population doubled. Indeed this results from a policy of progressive urbanization of the city which was only one village of 2000 inhabitants in 1960.

History

If Are worth-the-Pénil its place does not have among the great names which illustrate the chronicles, it is mentioned in the little story. The site, since millenia, attracted and fixed the men, as polished flint and cut stones the discovery testifies some. It draws its name from its topography: The term “Be worth” is unambiguous and applies to the convergence of the valleys of the Seine and Almont. As for “Pénil”, it is not to force the etymology only to connect it to the nipple which dominates the confluence, nipple which carried at the time Gallo-Roman a temple dedicated to Jupiter: Pennimus, with the site of the current church.

Some benchmarks

lords of Penny: Pierre of Penny, companion of Saint Louis to the crusade at the 13th century.
the Revolution of 1789: Fréteau of Penny, appointed of Baillage of Melun one of the actors of the Declaration of the Human rights.
the first Mayor: Germain Siraudin.
the Battle of the Marne: the September 5th 1914 Joffre and French with the Castle of Be worth-the-Pénil.

Tourist monuments and places

There are two remarkable monuments with Are worth-the-Pénil:

the church Saint Pierre - Saint Paul Built at the 13th century on the site of an old oratory.

a castle of the 18th century (built in the place of a feudal castle then of a castle Rebirth): built in 1766 by Michel-Louis Fréteau de Saint-Just. To the 19th century, the castle belongs to the Famille of Faucigny-Lucinge (V. May Ephrussi) which made there install after 1887, undoubtedly at the time of the enlargings carried out in 1892, a remarkable whole of woodworks of first half of the 18th century, realized for Samuel-Jacques Bernard (1686-1753), wire of the famous financier Samuel Bernard, and coming from the hotel Samuel Bernard, 46 Rue of the Vat in Paris.

Twinnings

, to see

This German city, sprinkled by the Glems, is located at 15 km in the North-West of Stuttgart, capital of the “Land” of Bade-Wurtemberg.

Main activity: machine BOSCH.

regular school Exchanges between the college “the Pond with the Fields” and the “Realschule” - and between the College Simone Signoret and the “Gymnasium” of Markgröningen. Moreover linguistic training courses in company make it possible to the young trainees to improve during the holidays.

the adult meetings are done either in one of the two twin towns, or in an intermediate place alternatively in France and Germany (ex: the Vosges 1996, the Saar 1999, the Jura 2001, Black Forest 2002).

In the middle of the Were worth, on Right Bank of the the Rhone. Fact part of the district of Sion. 6 village and 4 hamlets form the commune; the unit shelters a population of 5.500 inhabitants. Imposing wine sector: Savièse is the 3rd wine commune of the canton.

, to see

With 80 kilometers in the west of Chicago. Since 1998, exchanges of adults and the school ones with this “sister city”.

External bonds

Site of the city

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