Grez-on-Loing

Grez-on-Loing is a common Frenchwoman, located in the Département of Seine-et-Marne and the area Île-de-France.

Geography

Localities and variations

Hulay
the Inn

Communes bordering

Montigny-on-Loing, Bourron-Marlotte, Montcourt-Fromonville.

Transport

The commune is served by the Gare of Bourron-Marlotte - Grez, located on the commune of Bourron-Marlotte, on the line Paris - Montargis.

History

Formerly called Sandstone-in-Gâtinais, the city was then very important at the 13th century, depend on the Douaire of Blanche of Castille. Its four doors (of Paris, Saint-Jacob, of the cross Bussie and that of the old stone Bridge) only protected it very moderately - although raised for the occasion - exactions of the Guerre One hundred Year old: the village, like much of others in the area, was burnt in 1358 by the English. Its history was not any more at the time but one slow forfeiture: if Grez had of an important market, a royal body of notaries and legal bases, the city could not dam up its loss of influence.
the castle fell little by little ruins some (many the splendid houses of the village recovered the stones of them), bases escaped to him and the Prussian invasion of 1870 carried a fatal economic blow to him. Nevertheless, profiting like other communes from Seine-et-Marne from an artistic strong potential, the village - by the softness of its landscapes bordered of Loing and the Forest of Fontainebleau, as thanks to the proximity of Paris - managed to allure, towards the end of the 19th century, of many painters including Swedish, who took pension at the Laurent or with the Chevillon hotel.
commandery of the Templiers

On the commune of Grez on loing the commandery of Beauvais-in-Gâtinais was. One does not find a trace beyond second half of the 13th century even if the Templiers had goods there for a long time. The house of the Temple of Beauvais-in-Gâtinais was located on the way leading of Beauvais to Villiers-under-Grez. Today there remain only cellars, a well, and undergrounds.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the church dates from the 12th century. It shelters some tombs of the 16th century.
the Tower of Ganne, built by Louis VI in 1127, at the same time as the castle.
the old bridge, built between the 12th century and the 14th century, several times destroyed since.

Personalities related to the commune

Louise of Savoy, was born in 1476 with Bridge-in Ain and died in 1531 with Grez-on-Loing. It was princess of the ducal house of Savoy, mother of Marguerite de Navarre, François Ier and regent of the kingdom.
Laure de Berny had a property of countryside there Bouleaunière where it very often accepted her lover Honore de Balzac. It is there that it accepted the manuscript of the Lys in the valley little before dying, in 1836.

See too

Common of Seine-et-Marne

External bonds

: Tourist office of Grez
: Official site of the city

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