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Coubron is a common French, located in the department of the Seine-Saint-Denis (in the past Seine-et-Oise) and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants names Coubronnais (be).

Geography

Coubron is a small town located at the bottom of a small valley, with the limit of the Seine-et-Marne. It is surrounded of the communes of:

It is distinguished from the other communes of the department by its rural character. It is the least populated commune besides Seine-Saint-Denis.

History

Traces of the Neolithic were found in Coubron (axes, scrapers,…). A village had been actually built close to the brook which crosses Coubron of Is in West: the Ru of Chantereine. With, colonists settled there and gave him the name of Curtis Bréonis , the ground or field of Bréon (of which the Germanic name of origin means broad or strong). Towards 1180, Robert II Mauvoisin, wire of Raoult IV Mauvoisin, wire of a middle-class family of Paris, had the grounds of Coubron and Villemomble. At the end of the 13th century, Guillaume of Chantilly yielded the ground of Coubron to Philippe Beautiful the. It named at that time Curtbeuron Curtbreun or Corbréon. Until the end of the 16th century, the city was attached to Livry. Its territory was depend either on the abbey of Chelles or of the Templiers and Hospitaliers (Ordre of Malta) of Clichy-sous-Bois. Ultimate lord of Coubron, Hocquart was guillotine the 7 Messidor of year 3. In 1790, Nicolas Domage was elected first mayor of the city. Between 1867 and 1875, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot often remained at the village and arranged there a workshop now disappeared.

Demography

Sources:

Administration

The Mayor and the General adviser of Coubron are currently Mr Raymond Coënne.

Twinning

Coubron is twinned with Berkheim (Germany)

Blazon

The blazon shows three horns of hunting to ribbon of azure, on yellow bottom, which was the emblem of the family of Nesmond, owner of the city to the XVIIe century. These horns are linked with the pinks of Hocquart, owner starting from 1741, until the French revolution.

Resources and productions

Important career of Gypsum.

Green areas

  • the Forest of Bondy

  • ponds: “the pond of Corot”, “the pond of the mill”,…
  • the meadow of Tilery : is one of the last meadows marno-limestones of the city.
  • the wood of Bernouille is a gypsum hillock deposited on green clay, covered with a limestone-siliceous slope, on which a natural forest of 45 hectares pushes. It is a very wet site (8 ponds and many ditches) which conceals an interesting fauna and a flora: oaks centenaries, black Sympetrum, 7 species of batrachians of which the webbed Tritons, punctuated and crested…
Access only with one guide or an authorization of the Town hall for the general public.
  • the departmental walk of Dhuys
  • the Center of Initiation to the Rural world and Nature
  • the teaching orchard
  • vines of Closed of Bréon: the vine was reintroduced in 1997.
  • farms

Monuments

  • crowned Architecture

    • Church Saint-Christophe dating from the 13th century. It was rebuilt in 1854.
    • Retable of the 17th century
    • Tables of the 18th century, of the Holy Family, the Virgin and the Child, Presentation with the Temple, exposed in the Church Saint-Christophe.
    • the martyrdom

  • Civil architecture

    • engraved Terminal dating from the 17th century, delimiting the possessions of the seigneurery of Coubron and those of the abbey of Chelles. It is located Place of the Town hall.
    • the tree " to the forty écus" , a Ginkgo biloba coming from China, is due its nickname to the fact that the owner would have paid this price to obtain it.
    • “faunas” of François-Raoul Larche

Famous characters

See too

Works

  • Coubron and the artists , 1998.

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Coubron seen of the sky (Google Maps)

Notes, sources and references

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