Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse

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Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse
Lake Beausejour in Saint Remy les Chevreuse
Lake Beausejour in Saint Remy les Chevreuse
Location of Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse
Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse is located in France
Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse
Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse
Coordinates: 48°42′23″N 2°04′21″E / 48.7064°N 2.0725°E / 48.7064; 2.0725Coordinates: 48°42′23″N 2°04′21″E / 48.7064°N 2.0725°E / 48.7064; 2.0725
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentYvelines
ArrondissementRambouillet
CantonMaurepas
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Dominique Bavoil
Area
1
9.65 km2 (3.73 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2018)[1]
7,810
 • Density810/km2 (2,100/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
78575 /78470
Elevation66–169 m (217–554 ft)
(avg. 76 m or 249 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʁemi lɛ ʃəvʁøz] (About this soundlisten), literally Saint-Rémy near Chevreuse) is a commune in the Yvelines department, in the Île-de-France region of north-central France.

RER B line railway station

It has the westernmost station and endpoint of the RER B line from Paris.

Notable people[]

  • Pierre de Coubertin — considered by some the father of the modern Olympic Games.
  • Eugène Imbert (1821–1898) — 19th-century chansonnier, died here
  • André Wogenscky (1916 - 2004) was a French Modernist architect, and member of the Académie des beaux-arts.
  • Marta Pan (1923-2008) was a French abstract sculptor of Hungarian origin.

See also[]

  • Communes of the Yvelines department

References[]

  1. ^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.

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