Samois-sur-Seine

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Samois-sur-Seine
Commune
The River Seine in Samois-sur-Seine
The River Seine in Samois-sur-Seine
Coat of arms of Samois-sur-Seine
Coat of arms
Location of Samois-sur-Seine
Samois-sur-Seine is located in France
Samois-sur-Seine
Samois-sur-Seine
Coordinates: 48°27′10″N 2°45′02″E / 48.4528°N 2.7506°E / 48.4528; 2.7506Coordinates: 48°27′10″N 2°45′02″E / 48.4528°N 2.7506°E / 48.4528; 2.7506
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentSeine-et-Marne
ArrondissementFontainebleau
CantonFontainebleau
IntercommunalityCA Pays de Fontainebleau
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Michel Chariau
Area
1
6.33 km2 (2.44 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2018)[1]
2,047
 • Density320/km2 (840/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
77441 /77920
Elevation41–115 m (135–377 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Samois-sur-Seine (French pronunciation: [samwa syʁ sɛn] (About this soundlisten), literally Samois on Seine) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

It is located near Fontainebleau.

Culture[]

It is famous for being the town to which Django Reinhardt retired, and hosts an annual jazz festival in his honor. It was also the home to Reverchon Industries, a major global bumper car and other amusement ride producer. It is the birthplace of French jazz singer Cyrille Aimée.[2] It has a lively community, with a Primary school, a weekly market, a baker, a butcher, two café/bars, several restaurants and hotels. A bus also provides a link to the nearby town of Fontainebleau/Avon, the route of the world's first commercial trolleybus 1901-13.

Île du Berceau, where the Django Reinhardt festival takes place

Demographics[]

Inhabitants of Samois-sur-Seine are called Samoisiens

Historical population of Samois-sur-Seine
(Source: Cassini[3] and INSEE[4])
Year196219681975198219901999200720122017
Population138013731574157419162236206220982053
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Literary reference and namesake[]

The town is mentioned in the 1954 novel Story of O as the location of the fictional mansion managed by Anne-Marie, a lesbian dominatrix. In 1978, the name Samois was adopted by a lesbian-feminist BDSM organization based in San Francisco that existed from 1978 to 1983. It was the first lesbian BDSM group in the United States.[5]

See also[]

  • Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department
  • Maud Gonne— The cemetery of Samois-sur-Seine is where in 1893 the English-born Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette, and actress Maud Gonne conceived Iseult Gonne in a sex magick ritual to reincarnate the soul of her dead son, in the crypt of the child's mausoleum, next to the coffin.

References[]

  1. ^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
  2. ^ Ronni Reich, October 21, 2012, Star-Ledger, Cyrille Aimee wins the first Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition, Retrieved February 22, 2015, "...instantly recognizable sound: a soft, girlish buzz with a touch of an Edith Piaf-like quaver....Aimée honed her skills growing up in the village of Samois-sur-Seine, ... In 2007, she was named winner of the first and public prizes at the Montreux Jazz Festival Competition. ... rhythmically driven style"...
  3. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Samois-sur-Seine, EHESS. (in French)
  4. ^ "Population en historique depuis 1968". INSEE. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  5. ^ Jeffreys, Sheila (1993). The Lesbian Heresy. North Melbourne, Vic., Australia: Spinifex. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-875559-17-6.

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