Cesson

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

Its inhabitants is called Cessonnais.

Geography

Cesson is a small town located at approximately 55km in the south east of Paris. It belongs to the Arrondissement of Melun and the Canton of the Mée-on-Seine. Cesson also forms part of the Syndicat of new agglomeration of New Sénart-City

Localities and variations

Saint-Leu: Small village of less than 300 inhabitants, between Cesson and Seine-Port. The engineering services of the town of Cesson are in this village.

Communes bordering

The communes bordering on Cesson are:

History

The Departmental records have only very few data on the past of the village; very right one reads that the Bishop Guillaume de Champagne transferred quality from Parish to the church Saint Martin's day de Cesson, when it authorized the creation of a Priory with Saint-Leu, in 1176, and that in 1285, a certain Count Guillaume de Cesson and his wife, made gift of one their small-strongholds, with the Benedictines of the Holy Father of Melun.

The Ancien Mode does not seem to have durably marked the borough and its hamlets of Saint-Leu and Verneau. After the Revolution, the meeting for the worship of Cesson with Green-Saint-Denis, in 1809, followed, 20 years later, of the demolition of the church of intercommunality: with this single Parish, the children of the two villages attended the same school, while the two Communes bought a ground together where to bury their deaths.

Rural village, alive around its farms since centuries, it is the opening of the Railway station on its territory which will bring as from 1855, an extension of the borough on the side of the station, while rich person owners will prefer to make build their villas on the opposite side. The historical Almanac of the Seine and Marne notes for the year 1866,449 inhabitants for Cesson, and 720 for Green-Saint-Denis: the citizens elected at their head the two more important farmers and landowners of their respective locality.

At the dawn of modern times, whereas industrialization gains even the campaigns, the tilery and the mill of Cesson, considered to be not very profitable, must cease their activity after the war of 1870, just like distillings and the factory of flax hackling of Green-Saint-Denis. And if lighting by the electric light, voted since 1894, and set up between 1922 and 1956, prolonged the days of Cessonnais, their life ceased being rythmée by the passage of the herds of the farm of Verneau, throughout the main street from Corbeil to Melun, the old secondary road n° 33, become Avenue Charles Monier in 1964. In 1909, Henri Geoffroy becomes the mayor of Cesson. As of its arrival it enriches the city thanks to its close relationships with the mayor by Paris. One owes him in particular the avenue of the station. Farm rich person of the area, it rests today with the cemetery of German Saint Laxis. Between 1966 and 1967 the Large Village, built on Cesson and Green-Saint-Denis is built, having for model the English garden cities. It is organized around the Ru of Balory. In 1967 the new village is launched, which follows the same inspiration.

Ethymology

From which the name comes from Cesson:

would this Be of “coesium” ( carnage ), to point out the combat without mercy that would have delivered themselves around Melun, Gontran Ier king d' Orléans and of Burgundy and his/her brother Chilpéric I {{er}}, king de Soissons, in year 583?
would this Be of “sax”, in remembering the habitat of a Saxon man, who was not proven besides?
would this Be of “cease”, word briard meaning cherry ? The question remains posed…

Administration

History of the mayors

Twinnings

, town of birth of JK Rowling, author universally known of Harry Potter (see)
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Demography

Culture & Inheritance

Religious heritage

The Saint Martin's day church, destroyed in 1836, was with the site of current the " street of old the église". It is possible to rather precisely locate it using a topographic chart: prolongation in straight line of a way of forest still called " way of the messe" , which connected it to the castle of Saint-Leu - way now cut by the railway line.

A fragment of this old church, a waste-gas main, was built-in a wall of an old villa of Cesson, with 96 avenue Charles-Monier (building currently belonging to the city, and rented in Dassma, Direction of the social action of Seine-et-Marne).

A new Saint Martin's day church was built in 1936, in very an other district, near to the current town hall.

Famous characters

Charles Monier, known as " Popof" (i.e. " Russe") or " Death-dodger " , old driver of the Free Air forces Normandy-Niémen (Group of hunting Normandy-Niémen, voluntary French on the Russian face) during the second world war, then test pilot for Dassault Aviation.

Charles Monier was not originating in Cesson, and lived in Paris, but bought a property with Cesson in 1952, whereas it carried out tests with the Air base of Melun-Villaroche.

He committed suicide on March 3rd 1953 during in-flight tests out of the protoype 1 of the Dassault Mystère II, between Melun and the base of Istres. Its tomb is with the cemetery of Cesson.

By a deliberation of October 17th 1959, the municipal council of Cesson decided that the main street (called before " road of Corbeil") would take the name d'" avenue Charles-Monier".

Tourist monuments and places

Saint-Leu Castle: To the place Saint Leu says. Out of stone and brick. A Gentilhommière is attested on the site at the 17th century. A vault is added to the building in 1859, and is currently used as orangery. In 1859, the field comprises the principal body of the castle flanked of two side bodies, of the commun runs, of the stables, a laundrette, an orchard, a kitchen garden, meadows, the channel of Balory with bridge, a pond, wood, a house of gamekeeper and a farm seigneuriale. The castle is destroyed in 1881, and is sold in 1886 with the Piollet family. The site comprised a farm seigneuriale, built on an old priory. This farm is replaced by model farm in 1861.

Pond of the Merry one: with the Holy locality Leu. At the 12th century, an act of Louis VII would mention the pond and the communal mill of Saint leu. The pond belongs to the monks of Savigny-the-Temple then, until the XVIIIeme century. The baron Glucq of Saint Port, who had already the castle and the farm of Saint-Leu, becomes owner of the mill, who remains in activity until 1876, then is increased before being transformed into appointment of hunting and accommodating a game breeding. After the mill became inactive, the park of the castle is refitted and the Ru of diverted Balory. Currently the pond is an ornithological reserve managed by the Trade union of New Agglomeration of Sénart.

House: avenue Charles-Monier. Into grinding, clay and enamelled iron. Plate the mail. It is about an old relay of station, built at the 19th century.

House: with the angle of the street of Pear tree-Saint and avenue Charles-Monier. Frontage decorated with a waste-gas main coming from the old church from Cesson. This beautiful property, which belonged to the test pilot Charles Monier, is currently the seat of a Unit of social action of Dassma (Direction of the social action of Seine-et-Marne).

House: large street, Saint-Leu. Into grinding, wood plaster and side. Gothic dwelling of preparing taking as a starting point the balneal architecture. Sometimes sold on catalog, this type of preparing develops among the masonries built in edge of the Seine of the Mée-on-Seine and Seine-Port.

Town hall: avenue Charles-Monier. Out of coated stone. The town hall is installed in an old school of girls. The clock is installed on the frontage in 1909.

Perception: old town hall, built in 1877.

SNCF railway station: place station. Out of stone and coating. The station of Cesson belongs to a Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean line in service starting from 1849. The station of Cesson opens in 1855. Following the increase in the rail traffic, the way is doubled in 1912.

lakes: in the district of Cesson-the-forest is a green big space comprising of the tables of table tennis, of the plays for the small children, 3 lakes (including one dry for some time), a space with two cages of football, the small ways, the trees, in short, of what to have fun during one moment!

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