See also: Nemours (homonymy)
Nemours is a common French, located in the department of Seine-et-Marne and the area Île-de-France.
Its inhabitants is called them Nemouriens .
Geography
On banks of the Loing, with 17 kilometers in the South of Fontainebleau.
Localities and variations
Communes bordering
The communes bordering are: Bagneaux-on-Loing, Saint-Pierre-the-Nemours, Montcourt-Fromonville, Grez-on-Loing.
History
Nemours, which owes its name in the vicinity of the forest ( nemus ), does not go up beyond the 12th century. It was initially a seigniory. It was acquired by Louis IX, set up in duchy-meadow by Charles VI (1404), then exchanged with Charles III Noble the, king of Navarre; returned to the crown in 1425, it was yielded by Louis XI to Jacques of Armagnac, then confiscated (1477); was returned to Louis of Armagnac, which perishes in 1503; was given by Louis XII to his nephew Gaston de Foix in exchange of the Comté of Narbonne (1507), then by François Ier with a son of Laurent Splendid the, Julien de Médicis, husband of his aunt Philiberte of Savoy (1515); remained during 150 years in the Maison of Savoy; finally échut in 1666 with Louis XIV, which made of it gift with Philippe of Orleans, his/her brother, whose posterity kept it until 1789. The title of duke of Nemours is carried by 2nd wire of king Louis-Philippe.Henri III concludes in Nemours with the Members of a league, the July 7th 1585, a treated by which he recognized the Ligue, revoked the edicts of tolerance and committed themselves expelling all the Calvinistes.
See also: List of the dukes of Nemours
Nemours is one of the main cities crossed by the national 7, mythical the Blue Route . In the Sixty, it is one of the first stages cities, for the Parisian holiday makers. Located at kilometer 76, one put, at the time, more than 2 hours to cross the city because of many tricolor fires. Nemours is also an important city for impassioned and the collectors in love with N7, because it is over there that one can see the publicity oldest of the road Paris - Menton: it sagit of a mural fresco for the soap Saponite. This fresco is maintained thanks to private funds.
Administration
Demography
Religious heritage
Church Saint Jean-Baptiste (XIIIe and XVIe centuries), old vault seigneuriale (XIIIe and XIVe centuries), convents of Récollets and the Congregation of Notre-Dame
Economy
Sand pits, careers, bee-keeping, agricultural cooperative, regional center of data processing, candy to the poppy
Famous characters
; Born in Nemours- Pierre Berthier (1782 - 1861), mineralogist and geologist.
- Etienne Bézout (1730 - 1783), mathematician.
- Simon Charles Miger (1736 - 1728), engraver.
- Cyril Despres (1974), motorcyclist.
- Nicolas Cousin (1985), footballer.
- Hippolyte Bayard (1801 - 1887), pioneer of photography, inventor and artist.
- baron Claude of Germany, or Dallemagne (1754 - 1813), major general, baron of the Empire, to see Claude Dallemagne
- Adolphe Dupuis (1624 - 1691), actor.
- François Hédelin (1604 - 1676), playwright and theorist of the theater.
- Pierre Samuel of the Bridge of Nemours (1739 - 1817), contractor and economist, deputy of Nemours under the Constituent one and of which it associated the name with his.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), writer & poet, remained with the hotel the ECU of France, street of Paris.
Tourist monuments and places
- the library
- the departmental museum of the prehistory of Ile-de-France.
- the castle of the 12th century
- the church
- Its laundrettes and lanes
- Main forest of the Rocks-Gréau in Saint-Pierre-the-Nemours
Events
Festival and medieval market in the historical center of the city: the 1st week end of July
Twinning
Literature
Nemours in the literature
- Honore de Balzac locates at Nemours, during one time which goes from 1815 to 1837, its novel Ursule Mirouët , published in 1841 in the Scènes of the life of province of the human Comedy.
- the Princess of Clèves
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