Dormans

Dormans is a common French, located in the department of the Marne and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

Its inhabitants is called the Dormanistes .

Geography

Dormans is located in the valley of the Marne at the border between the Marne and the Aisne, at approximately 30 km of Rheims and 25 km of Épernay, on RN3, near the exit Dormans of the highway A4. Dormans is served by a line the SNCF (see Gare of Dormans).

Localities and variations

List Hameau X of Dormans: Chavenay, Soilly, Try, Vassieux, Vassy.

Soilly was integrated into the commune of Dormans in 1969.

Communes bordering

Courthiézy (311 inhabitants)
Igny-Comblizy (371 inhabitants)
Troissy (820 inhabitants)
Verneuil (784 inhabitants)
Vincelles (319 inhabitants)

History

Heraldic

Its weapons is: “of azure, sown flowers of gold lily, with the cock singing and bold crowned money and member of mouths, stitching on the whole”, overhung of an angel which holds the streamer with the official currency “Vigilantia”.

Events

October 10th 1575: Battle of Dormans.

Births

Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Architect born in Dormans in 1736, died in Paris in 1806.
Jean de Dormans, cardinal of Beauvais and Chancellor of France, which founded in 1370 with Paris, on the Montagne Holy-Genevieve, the Collège of Dormans-Beauvais where Cyrano of Bergerac made its studies.

Administration

Dormans is Chef-lieu Canton of Dormans.

Demography

v. 1882:

Population: 2.146

1990 :

Population without double accounts: 3.125
municipal Population: 3.111
Total population: 3.165

1999 :

Population without double accounts: 3.126
municipal Population: 3.126
Total population: 3.173

Twinning

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Monuments

the Mémorial of the battles of the Marne was built between 1921 and 1931, in the park of the castle of Dormans, to commemorate both battles of the Marne, of September 1914 and July 1918. The site was chosen by the Foch Marshal who declared it like " the synthétique' place from these two batailles".

The memorial was designed by the architect Mr. Marcel and was carried out by the architect Georges Alexandre Closson. They are in fact two superimposed vaults, the lower vault forming a Crypte. On its wing, a cloister bearing the name of the armies and the officers of the First World War carries out to an ossuary close which a Lanterne of dead the day before on the victims of the battles of the Marne.

Castle of 14th and 17th centuries.
Church Saint-Hippolyte (11th and 12th centuries).

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