Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire

Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire is a common French, located in the department of Indre-et-Loire and the area Center. Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire belongs to the Communauté of Tours agglomeration More of Tours which gathers 14 communes and nearly 300.000 inhabitants.

Its inhabitants is called the Saint-Cyriens, Saint-Cyriennes .

Geography

Located on the heights of Turns, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire extends to north from the Loire.

History

Administration

Places and monuments

The Holy church Julitte, vis-a-vis the the Loire.

Personalities related to the commune

  • Anatole France died there, in its property of Béchellerie, like Prosper d' Épinay.
  • Roland Engerand and the doctor Pierre Fidèle Bretonneau is buried there.
  • Honore de Balzac. It is in this locality where it had been put as a nurse that Balzac locates Grenadière, published in 1842 in the Scènes of the private life of the human Comedy. The property éponyme really existed, it remained there to him even with Madam de Berny in 1830. The father of the novelist was owner of a very close farm besides.
  • Pierre-Jean de Béranger lived there 1836 with 1839
  • Henri Bergson remained there with Gaudinière (property located opposite of Béchellerie).

Culture

Since 2007, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire profits from a theater: The Stopover.

See also: theaters in the agglomeration of Turns

Demography

There is currently in 2007,17 000 inhabitants in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire what makes of it the third city of the department of Indre-et-Loire.

Graph of evolution of the population, 1794-1999

Twinnings

Partnership

See too

  • Common of Indre-et-Loire
  • RSSC Touraine Handball (Club of Division 2).

External bonds

  • site of association With Cyr Saint on the Loire
  • municipal site of Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
  • Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire on the site of INSEE

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