Mancala

Geography

Located at the borders of the Gâtinais in the south, of the Brie in north, the Based in the east, the city holds its name of its geographical position with the confluence of the Yonne and the the Seine (" fault" , also spelled " faut" , comes from the verb to fail in its old direction to fall).

History

In 1359, the king de Navarre Charles the Bad, which held the city because of its Champagne ascent, lost it in front of the regent of France (the future king Charles V).

Jean without Fear, duke of Burgundy was killed on the bridge of the city in September 1419 by Tanneguy of Châtel and the lord de Barbazan (see: Assassination of Jean without Fear), during the interview which it had with the dolphin, future king Charles VII. The purpose of this act was of empècher a bringing together of the Dolphin with the Bourguignon party and to avenge the assassination for Louis for Orleans in 1407. That fits in the Civil war between Armagnacs and Burgundian which take place during the Guerre One hundred Year old.

Collegial our-Lady-and-Saint-Wolf contains a sword which according to the legend would have belonged to Jean without Peur (it would actually date from the time of Louis XIV).

On the bridge or Jean without Peur one was assassinated can read this inscription:

the year millet four hundred and nineteen,

On an arranged bridge of nine,

Was meutri Jean of Burgundy

has Montereau where Yonne is necessary.

In 1420, Philippe the Good, wire and successor of the assassinated duke, seized the city, which remained eight years with the hands of the anglo-Burgundian coalition. However, at the conclusion of a long seat, the king Charles VII, helped by Chabannes and Dunois, managed to take it again.

In 1567, during the wars of religion, Condé briefly seized the city.

In 1587, the inhabitants of Montereau took the party of the League, but ended up accepting in 1590 the legitimacy of the new king Henri IV.

Montereau was also the place of one of the last victories of Napoleon the February 14th 1814 against the Austrians: to see Battle of Montereau.

During the XIXe century, Monterau becomes a small industrial center, with, in addition to the industrial faience manufacture, of the factories of chemicals, glassmakings and other manufactures. This development continues during the XXe century. The city knows heavy bombardments at the time of the combat from May-June 1940 during the Second world war. The bridges and the districts of the downtown area are destroyed or suffer important damage. They are rebuilt with the beginning of the year 1950.

The city knows new stages at the end of the years 1950 with the Plan of installation and general organization of the Paris region (PADOG, ancestor of the Information system strategic plan of the area Île-de-France) which makes of Montereau an agglomeration of balance, within the framework of the plan of the " 3 M" of Seine-et-Marne (Meaux, Melun and Montereau). It is in this context that the urban expansion on the plate of Surville is decided. After the construction of a small emergency city in 1955 in this still agricultural zone, it is the construction of a new city which is undertaken with 6000 residences envisaged. Is in addition envisaged a great industrial park with the junction the Seine - Yonne, which causes the digging of a gigantic wet dock to allow an access to the barges large gauge. The objective was then for Montereau to reach a total population of 45000 inhabitants. Finally, following the economic difficulties of the industrial park and the competition of the new cities with the beginning of the year 1970, the urban development is limited than envisaged much more.

Economy

Principal industries of the city are:

the SILEC , subsidiary since October 2005 of GENERAL CABLE CORPORATION . The site produces electric cables.
the SAM , electric steel-works accompanied by a wire rolling line, subsidiary of the Italian steelmaker RIVETTED
YTONG-SIPOREX manufacturer of gas Concrete
BUTAGAZ center of filling of bottles of gas

Transport

The commune is served by a Gare ('' Montereau '') on the line Paris - Montereau - Laroche - Migennes (, FOR THE THIRD TIME, TGV). There exists in Montereau a network of bus called SIYONNE which makes it possible to circulate in Montereau and the eleven adherent communes.

Famous characters

Georges Claude, chemist, who discovered the liquid air in his factory of the Large-Parish.
Marcel Capron, politician
Paul Quesvers, journalist and historian.
Cécile Duflot, elected national secretary of the Greens in December 2006 lived there all its childhood and its adolescence. Raise successively at the school Jules Ferry, the college André Malraux then with the college André Malraux
Sebastien Jose, navigator
Yves Jego, politician and mayor of the commune

Tourist monuments and places

Museum of the Earthenware
Napoleon i on his horse dominating the Confluent
Church Saint-Wolf
the Priory Saint Martin's day.

Based in 908 on the slope is hill of Surville, it is attached to Saint-Laumer of Blois. It became a farm which was abandoned in the Années 1960. Excavations were undertaken and reflect at the day in the old vault of the vestiges of 11th and 13th century in particular of the sarcophagi whose certain re-employment is visible in the buttresses.

District of Surville

Great unit built by the Luc brothers and Xavier Arsene-Henry, Price of Rome, between 1961 and 1974. By ministerial decree of August 3rd 1959, a ground of 114 hectares on a plate dominating the city is stated Urban development zone. It includes/understands one of the very first examples of evolutionary residences. Finally, these are 4.725 residences which are built (on a total of 6.000 envisaged in the beginning).

The project of urban renewal (2004-2008) in bond with ANRU primarily envisages the destruction of 1354 residences in the northern and western part of the district (district of Alembert, Lavoisier, Jules Ferry and Jean-without-Fear). 921 social housing must be rebuilt in the district.

See the card of the Mérimée base and photographs of the district

See the photographs of the buildings of Arsene-Henry (1980) resulting from the funds Vera Cardot and Pierre Jolly, preserved at the Kandinsky library of the Center Pompidou

See the Convention of urban renewal on the site of the ANRU.

Regional Natural reserve of the Hill Martin Saint and Rougeaux

Created on July 27th, 1995, property of the Town of Montereau, the natural reserve of Montereau is rich of more than 400 plant species, of which several protected spaces, attended by many birds, insects and mammals. It presents varied natural environments (timberings, dry lawns, meadow…)

Events

Festival Montereau Junctions (generally at the time of the weekend more sprinkled safe June in 2005)
Annual Event of the Fair of Perfect St (often in the 20 April 23rd)
Napoleon Day organized every 4 years, one can, amongst other things, see there reconstitutions of battle with soldiers in behavior of the time coming from all Europe.

Culture

Conservatory Gaston Litaize

Education

Nursery schools

Nursery school Edmond Rostand
Nursery school Pierre and Marie Curie
Nursery school of Ormeaux
Nursery school Honore de Balzac
Nursery school Miss Boyer
Nursery school Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Nursery school Victor Hugo
Nursery school of Closed Dion

Elementary schools

Elementary school Honore de Balzac
Elementary school Edmond Rostand
Elementary school of Small Vaugirard
Elementary school of the Pottery
Elementary school of Ormeaux
Elementary school of Closed Dion
Elementary school Pierre and Marie Curie
Elementary school Claude Signonneau

College

College Pierre de Montereau (open in April 1968 - 454 pupils).
College Paul Eluard (open in February 1974 - 634 pupils).
College Andre Malraux (open in March 1973 - 428 pupils).

College

College Andre Malraux (open in May 1965 - 1447 pupils).
College Flora Tristan (open in September 1992 - 718 pupils).
College Gustave Eiffel

Sports

Gymnastic, Tennis, football, basketball, handball, swimming (burned swimming pool in March 2007), volley ball, athletics, badminton.
Montereau-Fault-Yonne was twice the city-departure of the last stage of the Tour de France cyclist in 1977 and 2004.
sporting Center Jackie Boiché, street Pierre

Blasonnement

Communes bordering

Cannes Locks, Forging mills, the Large-Parish, the Varennes-on-Seine, Saint-Germain-Laval.

Twinnings

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