Seine-Port

Seine-Port is a common French, located in the department of Seine-et-Marne and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants is called Saint-Carried them.

Geography

With Seine-Port the point low of the department of the Seine-et-Marne with 35 m of altitude is (on the level of the Seine).

History

Residence of the American diplomat Governor Morris during the French revolution, the village is used as a basis back of fold for American residents in France, for the case where political violence would have worsened.

Passage de la Seine by the army of the general Patton in 1944.

Between 1976 and 1984, Seine-Port belonged to the Grand Melun , in the new city of Melun-Sénart.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Castle of Holy-Base: The duke of Orleans Louis-Philippe the Large (1725 - 1785), father of the future Philippe-Equality, withdrew there after his marriage morganatic with Madam de Montesson in 1773. The castle was then transformed into radioelectric signal center after the First World War.
In the radioelectric center of Holy-Base, in extreme cases with Boissise-the-Bertrand, is a group of pylons reaching 255 m in height, being used inter alia with the transmission as information bound for the Sous-marin S French.

Personalities related to the commune

Born with Seine-Port

Jean-Benoit-Vincent Barred (1732 - 1824), architect, who in particular built the Château of the Marsh, had been born with Seine-Port and there had a house.
Francis Market (1938 -), botanist, specialist in the ecology of the wet tropical forests, in particular directed the scientific expeditions of the Radeau of the summits on the Canopée S of the tropical forests.

Having lived with Seine-Port

Governor Morris (1752 - 1816), American ambassador in France, founding father of the American constitution.
Victor Yvart (1764-1831), agronomist, successor of Parmentier to the Academy of Science, lived " Baronnie" in 1824, planted the park of it and finished its existence there.
Ernest Legouvé (1807 - 1903), writer, member of the French Academy, rented (of 1834 to 1849) then had (as from 1849) several country houses to Seine-Port where it accepted very many writers.
Antoine pol. (1888 - 1971), poet
Mayo (1905 - 1990), painter
Willem van Hasselt (1882 - 1963), painter.
Jacques Isorni (1911 - 1995), lawyer
Michele Torr (1946 -), singer
Emily Loizeau (1975 -), singer

External bonds

Site of the commune
the association of Safeguard of Seine-Port and its surroundings
Seine-Port on the site of the national geographical Institute
Seine-Port on the site of INSEE
Seine-Port on the site of Quid
Localization of Seine-Port on a chart of France and communes bordering

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