Samois-sur-Seine
Samois-sur-Seine | |
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The River Seine in Samois-sur-Seine | |
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Samois-sur-Seine | |
Coordinates: 48°27′10″N 2°45′02″E / 48.4528°N 2.7506°ECoordinates: 48°27′10″N 2°45′02″E / 48.4528°N 2.7506°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Île-de-France |
Department | Seine-et-Marne |
Arrondissement | Fontainebleau |
Canton | Fontainebleau |
Intercommunality | CA Pays de Fontainebleau |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Michel Chariau |
Area 1 | 6.33 km2 (2.44 sq mi) |
Population (Jan. 2018)[1] | 2,047 |
• Density | 320/km2 (840/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 77441 /77920 |
Elevation | 41–115 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] (listen), 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.
Demographics[]
Inhabitants of Samois-sur-Seine are called Samoisiens
Year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2012 | 2017 |
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Population | 1380 | 1373 | 1574 | 1574 | 1916 | 2236 | 2062 | 2098 | 2053 |
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[]
- ^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
- ^ 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"...
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Samois-sur-Seine, EHESS. (in French)
- ^ "Population en historique depuis 1968". INSEE. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
- ^ Jeffreys, Sheila (1993). The Lesbian Heresy. North Melbourne, Vic., Australia: Spinifex. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-875559-17-6.
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Samois-sur-Seine. |
- The Django Reinhardt Jazz Festival
- Reverchon Website
- Official site (in French)
- 1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région) (in English)
- Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- Communes of Seine-et-Marne
- Seine-et-Marne geography stubs