Geography
This commune is located at the north of Orleans and belonged to the community of commune of Orleans ( agglO ). It is in western edge of the Forêt of Orleans. The inhabitants are called the fleuryssois (be) .The city is also the northern terminus of the line has Tramway of Orleans.
Demography
Fleury is a city, which sees its number of inhabitants being stabilized since 1990.
Administration
History
Some monks, resulting from the Benedictine abbey of Fleury (the Saint-Benoit-on-Loire), settled in the north of Orleans by creating a vault Fleury . Rural and market-gardening village, it was called previously Fleury-the-Cabbages .The current town hall is built in 1928.
Important a railway station was inaugurated on May 2nd 1843 with the localities Aubrais , constituting a pole of attractivity for all the city. In 1870, the city is the territory of important combat opposing French to the Prussians on the place of the current district of the Aydes .
The legend wants that a remark mocker on the patronym of the city, made by Alphonse XIII, king d' Espagne, in transit at the station the May 30th 1905, caused the name change which was endorsed in 1907.
During the Second world war, the station is destroyed during bombardments combined in 1944 which also touches the adjacent district. The city is released on August 18th of this same year.
The current station goes back to 1961. The opening of the Tram of Orleans, passing by Fleury, takes place in 2000. The arts center the Footbridge is inaugurated in 2006.
Famous characters
- Marie-Therese Louise of Savoy-Carignan, woman of back-back the small son of Louis XIV and the marchioness of Montespan and princess of Lamballe, had there a field, of which there does not remain any more any construction. It gave its name ( Parc Princess De Lamballe ) to a park where is built the Arts center of the city ( the Footbridge ) and the music school Maurice Ravel, like with a street and a district of the commune.
- Georges Daumezon (1912 - 1979), psychiatrist, directed the psychiatric hospital of Fleury between 1938 and 1951. Its name is coupled with this last since 1998.
Demonstrations
- the bullfight : festive race the evening of New Year's Eve, whose first edition goes back to 1976.
- the annual secondhand trade of Crab (March)
- the Gone of Christmas
- the reception of the sportsmen
- the festival cheminance (which is a voyage throughout the world and times)
- the living room of the artists fleuryssois, FLEURY meets Europe (2006 - which took place in Sweden (2007) and 2008 in Bosnia Hérezégovie)…
- Fête of the Neighbors (the last Tuesday of May) and the festivals of district in June.
- 100 years of Fleury Aubrais in (November 2007)
Sport
- the team of Handball of the city, CJF Fleury-Les-Aubrais is in the first female division for the season 2006 - 2007.
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the city is also partner of the Entente Orléanaise 45 by a convention called 3 cities - 3 clubs (Fleury, Orleans and Saint Jean de Braye).
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the team of Rugby of the city, the CJF RUGBY is as a vice champion honor for the season 2006-2007. Its school of Rugby is the first of the committee of center to receive the label " FFR".
Tally of life
- flowered City: 4 flowers Grand Prix allotted by the National council of the Cities and Flowered Villages of France to the Contest of the cities and flowered villages.
Twinnings
Media
Are currently installed on the town of Fleury-les-aubrais:- the associative radio " Radio operator Arc In Ciel"
- the Chain of tele secondary road " Orleans TV "
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