Nogent-sur-Seine

Nogent - on the Seine is a common French, located in the department of the Aube and the area Champagne-Ardenne. Its inhabitants is called Nogentais.

Geography

The commune is crossed by the Seine. This one was supplemented of two channels, which gave rise to two islands. One of it, named Olive Island, is entirely timbered and arranged for the walk. The other island is connected to banks by two old bridges. The islands are connected by the “outfall”, long reserve of water surmounted by a footbridge. The channels were dug for the mill installation of of Nogent, enormous building which extends over all the width. Nogent-sur-Seine is regarded as the point upstream navigable on the Seine.

The city developed mainly on left bank. Are there the historical center, administrative and commercial, like downstream the silos of the agro-alimentary company Soufflet. On Right Bank, after a short urban area and an industrial park, extend from the marshes and wetlands on the road from Port-Saint-Nicolas (on the commune of Saint-Nicolas-the-Vault), called well by the way road of the 21 bridges.

Description would be incomplete without the mention of the Nuclear plant of Nogent, located upstream, and its two cooling towers 165 height m.

Toponymy and etymology

Localities and variations

Communes bordering

Mériot in the North-West
Saint-Nicolas-the-Vault in North
Saulsotte in North
the Marnay-on-Seine in the North-East and the East
Saint-Aubin in South-east
Fountain-Mâcon in the South
Fontenay-with-Bossery in South-west
the Mound-Tilly in the West

History

Known since the Gallo-Roman time, Nogent-sur-Seine was attached as a commune to the Champagne county to XIIe century. It was destroyed by fire in 1442 and 1814.

The city is in particular known for the battle which opposed the armies of Napoleon and Wurtemberg at the time of the countryside of France in 1814.

Administration

Demography

Literature

Several passages of sentimental Education , of Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) proceed in Nogent of the Restauration. Nogent-sur-Seine is used there like the type of the provincial town, within the framework of an opposition with Paris (where the majority of the action is located). This opposition is important in the novel, and very traditional in the French literature of the 19th century (cf for example Balzac or Zola).
In 1988, following the polemic pulled by the establishment of an electric factory of production so near to Paris, Helene Shouted, journalist with Release , and Yves Lenoir publish Tchernobyl on the Seine , Romance catastrophe putting in scene a nuclear accident at Nogent-sur-Seine. Although pure fiction, the book gives for as much a rather faithful description of microcosm nogentais of then.

Twinnings

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Inheritance

Church the St. Lawrence
Museum Paul Dubois - Alfred Boucher, founded in 1902 by Alfred Boucher: archeology, painting and sculpture
several buildings of Champagne style

Economy

Two companies represent major the part of the economic activity of the city.

the Bellows group, agro-alimentary, has its seat there, as well as the old mills and the silos.
the company EDF established to with it the nuclear plant of Nogent, nearest to Paris.

Its river port is managed by the Chamber of commerce and of industry of Troyes and the Paddle.

External bond

Official site of the town hall of Nogent-sur-Seine
Official site of the Museum Paul DUBOIS and Alfred BUTCHER of Nogent-sur-Seine

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