Ferrières-en-Gâtinais

Ferrières-en-Gâtinais
Ferrières-en-Gâtinais
Commune
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	Coordinates: 48°05′35″N 2°47′25″E / 48.0931°N 2.7903°ECoordinates: 48°05′35″N 2°47′25″E / 48.0931°N 2.7903°E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Loiret
Arrondissement	Montargis
Canton	Courtenay
Intercommunality	Quatre Vallées
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Gérard Larcheron
Area 1	15.87 km2 (6.13 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	3,691
• Density	230/km2 (600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	45145 /45210
Elevation	72–121 m (236–397 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Ferrières-en-Gâtinais (French pronunciation: [fɛʁjɛʁ ɑ̃ ɡɑtinɛ]; literally "Ferrières in Gâtinais") is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.

Ferrières was the site of the Benedictine monastery Ferrières Abbey, which had an extensive library in the Middle Ages.^[2]

Geography[]

The municipality is located in the Gâtinais region, north of the national forest (forêt domaniale) of Montargis, 13 km north of the town of Montargis, 81 km north-east of Orléans and 98 miles south of Paris. To the north the municipality borders the department of Seine-et-Marne. The Cléry, a tributary of the Loing, flows through the village.

The municipality contains the village of Ferrières and the hamlets of Saint-Séverin, Petit-Ambreville, Le Grand-Ambreville, Collumeaux, Egrefin, Birague, La Queue-de-l'étang, Tirelande, Le Perrocher, and La Grange Tascher.

Notes[]

^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
^ Mostert, Marco (1996). "The tradition of classical texts in the manuscripts of Fleury". In Chavannes-Mazel, Claudine Albertine; Smith, Margaret M. (eds.). Medieval manuscripts of the Latin classics: production and use. Los Altos Hills, California: Anderson-Lovelace. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-9626372-4-7.