Green-Saint-Denis

Physical and human geography

Located at 40 kilometers in the south east of Paris, between the plain of the Brie and the forest of Bréviande, Green-Saint-Denis is administratively attached to the Arrondissement of Melun and the Canton of the Mée-on-Seine.

Integrated since 1973 in the new city of Sénart.

Green-Saint-Denis is made up of the city itself and two hamlets: Pouilly the Fort and Small Jard.

This city is typical demographic trends of the large Parisian crown during these 30 last years. Being still an agricultural small village with beginning of the year 60, it consequently will profit from the immediate proximity of Cesson and its station. Suburban zones start to hatch at various places of the commune (street of the Ewe, Grand Village). The phenomenon considerably will accelerate as from 1975, Green-Saint-Denis profiting from his integration in the new city of Melun-Sénart. Whole districts leave ground (Hillocks in Fêves and of Luet during years 75-80, then Vallée of Bailly during the Eighties and finally Ramonerie with beginning of the year 90). Of 2.500 inhabitants in 1968, the common master key with nearly 7.500 in the middle of the Nineties.

However on this date, the urbanization will mark time with the profit of zones of activities. The zone of the Cellar, established long time along N6, was increased in a spectacular way for Paris from 1994-1995, date on which A5 coming from Paris and of the Francilienne arrived at Green-Saint-Denis. The automobile dealers trustèrent the accesses of main road 6, leaving the remainder of the zone to the small industrialists and the hotels. In 1999, Norbert Dentressangle installs an important logistic base in this zone, becoming the first employer of the commune.

A news gives risk to be born with Green-Saint-Denis who did not know great programs since the beginning of the Nineties. Already a new district left ground in 2001 to the Saint-Pierre Cross, adding a hundred inhabitants to the commune. The request being for more into strong in this area, a new district should be born as from 2005 on the Plain of the Windmill, divided with Cesson. This program is the first since nearly 15 years on the commune and should make carry in the medium term the population of Green-Saint-Denis to more than 9.000 inhabitants.

Events

Empty attic the 1st week end from June in Pouilly the Fort and the first weekend from October in Holy Vert Denis.
Gone of the equitable trade and saving energy in April
Festival of song " Let us sing ensemble" in June
Forum of associations in September.

The inhabitants of the hamlet of Pouilly-le-Fort (Pouillyfortains) organize the carnival of Pouilly with a different topic each year in April. Site of Pouilly-le-Fort

History

Green-Saint-Denis was the witness of some remarkable facts during the History.

First of all, it is with the hamlet of Small Jard, in a royal castle, disappeared since, which Philippe II Auguste was born in August 1165.

In 1419, was signed close to Green-Saint-Denis, the Peace of the Culvert between Jean without Peur (duke of Burgundy) and the Dolphin (Charles VII).

August 10th, 1792, Jean Sylvain Bailly is stopped on the commune with the locality of the Cellar.

1881 see the arrival of Louis Pasteur in Pouilly-le-Fort. It took part with Rossignol (a local doctor) in a practical application of its theories for the fight against the disease of coal, disease which touches the sheep. This experiment ended in a success, the vaccinated sheep having overcome the disease. See also: Secret of Pouilly-le-Fort

The event, without any doubt, most known of the history of the commune is the Affaire_du_courrier_de_Lyon, which took place the April 27th 1796. The mail coach which transported there this day part of the pay of the soldiers of the countryside of Italy was attacked close to the locality of the Round Fountain, located on the imperial road of Lyon (current D 306, ex N6). In the attack, the two conveyers were cut the throat of. After a bâclée investigation, a suspect, Joseph Lesurques, are declared guilty attack and are carried out in 1798. It from now on is proven that Lesurques was innocent, and its history was lengthily told and fictionalized at the 19th century.

Architectural heritage

Menhir of the large shepherd: wood of Bréviande. Out of stone. Raised with the Neolithic era.

Center of the grove: wood of Bréviande. Into grinding and brick. Built at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. The wood of Bréviande is repurchased with several owners by the district council of the Île-de-France area starting from 1972.

forest House: wood of Bréviande. Out of coated stone and brick. Installed at the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century with the site of an old appointment of hunting surrounded by a park built with the 18th century by the duke of Orleans, from which there remains a surrounding wall.

Vestiges of a strong house: wood of Bréviande. The strong house is announced on the site in 1354. Turns are added to him in 1669. In 1739, it has of ditches and a drawbridge. The vestiges are located close to the forest house.

Cross of cemetery: central alley of the cemetery. Out of stone. The Middle Ages with 1852, the cemetery are in front of the church. In 1852, it is transferred out of the village, the cross too.

Church Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul: place church. Out of stone. The base of the bell-tower and the capitals carved in the church date from the 12th century. The remainder, whose bell-tower, are built at the 13th century. Rehandlings take place at the 16th century, of which the provision of the porch and the roof as a double bâtière are the products. Inside: Worship of the magi in carved painted and gilded oak, perhaps coming from the old church of Cesson; Triumph over François-Xavier, oil-base paint dating from the 17th century; carry gate vault out of wooden painted and carved 17th century, coming from old the Abbaye of Jard; retable of the high altar, out of wood dating from the end of the 17th century, coming from the old abbey of Jard: transferred initially from the abbey to the old church of Cesson, then at the time of the destruction of this one in 1836, installed in the Saint-Pierre-and-Saint-Paul church.

Turn of Small-Jard: Street of the Madeleine. Out of stone. Dating from the 14th century, this tower would have belonged to a whole of four turns. The stronghold of Small-Jard is attested in charters of 14th and 15th century.

Porch: street Dionet. Out of stone, wood, and glazed terra cotta. It is about the entry of an old strengthened farm. Acquired by the Abbey of Saint-Denis in 1235, it is exploited until the 18th century. It is then parcelled out. Currently divided into two properties.

Terminals SD and SV: street Dionet. Out of sandstone. They come from the wood of Jard. They delimited the grounds had by the Abbaye of Saint-Denis (limits SD) and by the monks of Victor Saint, alive in the abbey of Jard (SV limits).

Well with wheel: street of Bichère, Pouilly-le-Fort. Out of stone and cast iron.

Bridge: street Jug, Pouilly-le-Fort. Out of stone. During second half of the 19th century, several bridges are built on the course of the Ru of Balory.

Laundrette: street of the laundrette, Pouilly-le-Fort. Out of stone and wood. Second half of the 19th century. The Ru of Balory feeds from the laundrettes built at the 19th century in order to prevent that the lavender fields do not wash the linen directly in Ru.

strong Castle: large street, Pouilly-le-Fort. Out of stone. The castle dates from the 14th century. In 1331, Guillaume de Vaudétar, with the service of Philippe VI, receives the seigniory and the castle of Small-Jard. The castle knows installations at the 15th century, at the end of 17th, like the 19th century. Two charters in date of 1385 and 1667 mention a second body of buildings with a tower, a drawbridge, a vault, a farmyard with stables, presses and residences.

Old school: street of the schools, Pouilly-le-Fort. Out of coated stone. Built in 1873, rebuilt at the same place in 1909. Reconstitution of the classroom. Internet site

Administration

Mayors of Green-Saint-Denis

Bonds

Official site of the commune of which the program of the demonstrations
Site of Pouilly the Fort
the house of school
associative Site of the young people of Green St Denis
Site of the parochial sector of Cesson-Nandy- Savigny-the-Temple - Green-Saint-Denis
nonofficial Forum on Sénart

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