Montmirail (the Marne)

Montmirail is a common French, located in the department of the Marne and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

Montmirail forms geologically part of the Brie Champagne, less fertile than the French Brie, but which however includes/understands good grain-bearing lands. Being given its altitude and its situation on a spur, its climate is rather hard, but healthy. The city dominates, indeed, laughing it valley of Small Morin, dug in sands. One finds there, in a " sablière" very known, studied formerly by Georges Vat, and a little everywhere in the alluvia, of large shells which meet only in the hot seas, as of the fossils of animals whose species is now lost.

Its inhabitants is called the Montmiraillais .

Geography

Situation

The town of Montmirail is regarded as the Champagne capital of the Brie. It is located at the western end of the department of the Marne near the Département of Aisne and the Département of Seine-et-Marne. The closest big cities are:

Montmirail is flowered Ville by the National council of the Cities and Flowered Villages of France.

Communes bordering

The communes bordering are:

Division of the commune

Several places known as belong to the town of Montmirail:

  • Courbetaux (in the south east)

  • Hautefeuille (in north)
  • Dorgeaterie (in the west)
  • the Scale-the-Franc (in north)
  • Maclaunay (in the south east)
  • Cleaning (in the east)
  • Montcoupot (in the west)

Courbetaux

Hautefeuille

Hautefeuille is a hamlet of Montmirail which counts approximately 150 inhabitants.

Hautefeuille is located at approximately 4 km in the north of the town of Montmirail, between the locality the Scale-the-Franc and the commune of Vauchamps.

This hamlet comprises only 2 streets:

  • the street of Vauchamps
  • the green street

See too

  • Photographs of Hautefeuille on Wikimédia Commons

Dorgeaterie

The Scale-the-Franc

the Scale-the-Franc is a hamlet of Montmirail which counts approximately 50 inhabitants.

This hamlet is located at the exit of the city, to approximately 3 km in north, between the locality Hautefeuille and the town of Montmirail.

The factory Doucet of the Scale-the-Franc, (of the same name as the current mayor Bernard Doucet) employed many people of the neighborhoods, but is closed today.

She is today reconverted in space of companies called " Space DOUCET " and currently gathers:

  • an electric research department " Encell Energies " ,
  • a company of joinery " FPF Joinery " ,
  • a company of plumbing cover " ENDERS Cover, Plumbing " ,
  • a company of farm equipment " MARCHAL " and
  • a company working in the railway material " DIFER ".

Maclaunay

Cleaning

Montcoupot

History

Culture and Inheritance

Architectural heritage

  • the castle of Montmirail, dating from the 16th century
  • the column commemorative of the Napoleonean Battles of February 1814, at the time of the Countryside of France to Montmirail, Vauchamps, Champaubert and of Castle-Thierry
  • the castle of Bergeres-sous-Montmirail
  • the castle of Beaumont
  • the war memorial of Montmirail (Victoire winged celebrating the soldier of 1914 and the hairy one of 1918).

Famous characters

  • Ambroise-Polycarpe of Rochefoucauld, noble and French politician lived with the Château of Montmirail.

  • Jean-François Paul de Gondi, cardinal of Retz was born in Montmirail.

Personalities related to the commune

  • Desired Médéric Fair the

Economy

Demography

Administration

Montmirail is located in the department of the Marne and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

It belongs to the Arrondissement of Épernay and the canton of Montmirail. It is also the chief town of the Champagne Communauté of communes of the Brie.

List former mayors

Twinnings

Montmirail is twinned with two villages:

  • (German Article: )

  • (English Article: )

To deepen

Related articles

  • the Castle of Montmirail

References

  • the canton of Montmirail

  • Montmirail on the site of the national geographical Institute

External bonds

  • the official site of the city
  • friendly union of the mayors of the Marne (AM)
  • Montmirail on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Montmirail on the site of INSEE
  • Montmirail on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Montmirail on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Montmirail on Mapquest

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