Lagny-sur-Marne

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

Its inhabitants is called Latignaciens or Laniaques.

Geography

The commune of Lagny extends between the valley from the Marne and the beginning from the plate from the Brie. Lagny is located at 28 km in the east of Paris. Its altitude is approximately 44 Mr. The commune is served by a station network Transilien Paris-Is. It is located on the Paris-Meaux line via Lagny-Thorigny.

Communes bordering

The communes bordering are:

Demography

Lagny-sur-Marne is a commune which counted 19  368 inhabitants in 1999, against 18  643 inhabitants in 1990). The distribution men/women is equal to the national average there (48,6% men, 51,4% women). It currently counts 8  506 residences for 7  730 hearths, is 6,8% of vacant housings (what is lower than the average of 8%). 38,6% of these residences are houses, and 58,6% of the apartments.

The average revenue per capita is there of 24  593 €/year, the national average being of 20  363 €/year. Unemployment rate is there only of 9,8% (moy. nat. 12,9%).

Education

  • general public lycée and technological Van Dongen

  • together school private Saint Laurent catholic - Peace catholic Notre Dame
  • Private school Saint Joseph

Culture

Cité medieval, the city counts many historic buildings like the church Our-Lady-of-Burning (13th century) and the church Saint-Furcy (15th century).

One of the cradles of the Neo-impressionism, it saw being born the “Groupe from Lagny” (Cavallo-Péduzzi, Léo Gausson, Maximilien Luce).

History

Holy Fursy, a monk Irish, makes build a monastery, the abbey Saint-Pierre . Devastated by the Norman at the 9th century then rebuilt, struck by 2 fires, there remains today 2 constructions resulting from the abbey: the strengthened entry and the current abbey vault church Our-Lady-of-Burning which dates from the 13th century.

Closed down under the Revolution, certain buildings of the abbey are sold in 1796. The 19th century will see the transformation of the remaining buildings into military hospital. The inscription “Military hospital” still remains on the pediment of the principal door.

Since 1842, the old abbey shelters the Mairie Lagny-sur-Marne.

The strengthened entry of the old abbey gives today on the place of the Fountain. One can read still there an inscription which dates from the Revolution, carried out in 1793 at the time of the festival of “the Unit and the Indivisibility of the Republic”: “Indivisible Unit of the Republic Freedom Equality Fraternity or Death”.

Current the Town hall is installed in the buildings of the abbey. As of the entry one arrives in the galleries of the cloister which surround the interior garden. The large staircase leads to the first stage, towards the living rooms of honor. The walls of the gallery of the first stage accommodate many fabrics of the painters of Lagny-sur-Marne and its area, of which Alphonse Lint, died in 1900, attached to the School of Barbizon and the impressionist . Certain tables were bought by the baron de Rothschild and were offered to the town of Lagny-sur-Marne.

The abbey is connected to abbey by a door which the monks used formerly to go to the offices. One of the tables of abbey, certainly the Descent of the Holy Spirit , was offered by Louis XIV, of passage to Lagny.

Mysteries of the Saint Pierre Abbey

The abbey contains 2 mysteries:

  • the nail of the cross :
    Le blazon of the city comprises a nail. it is about the point of one of the nail S of the cross of the Christ, given by the king Robert the Piles towards 1019 to the abbey. This Relique disappeared during plundering of the monastery by the calvinists in 1567. This relic since is lost.

  • the sword of Jeanne d' Arc :
    Jeanne d' Arc passed twice to Lagny-sur-Marne: in September 1429 and in spring 1430.
    Lors of this second passage, Jeanne achieves a miracle, on which the authorities Catholique S for its Canonization will be based: it ressuscite a dead child since 3 days, to allow him to receive the sacrament of the Baptism.
    À its departure, Jeanne leaves 6 swords. One of them belonged to Charles Martel, which would have been used for about it to stop the Arabs with Poitiers in 732.
    Cette “sword holy” was hidden by a priest of the abbey. It would be always in Lagny, either in an underground located under the church, or walled in a pillar of the vault…

Economy

The town of Lagny has very dynamic tanneries and markets Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. It is however the hospital which employs the most people in the city. Lagny also shelters the initial site of the company " William Saurin" , which installed its first factory with Lagny in 1926

Famous characters

  • Honore de Balzac came regularly to Lagny-sur-Marne at its printer for the edition from the lost Illusions .
  • Léo Gausson, painter of the group of Lagny was born in one from the houses with pinions, on February 14th, 1860.
  • Leon Bloy, writer polemist, wrote " Four Years of Captivity with Pig-on-Marne" , the summary of its stay with Lagny and the surroundings between 1900 and 1904.
  • Thierry Rey, native of Lagny-sur-Marne, is one of most famous the judoka French. Today, a gymnasium of Lagny-sur-Marne bears its name.
  • Francis To lace, football player was born in Lagny-sur-Marne.
  • Pierre Hasquenoph, Jean-Thierry Bushel and Paul Wehage, type-setters of classical music lived or live in Lagny-sur-Marne.
  • Bruce Abdulaye, football player international Congolese lives in the lagny-on-Marne.
  • Harlem of the Star Academy on TF1.
  • Cyril Cinélu gaining Star Academy 2006
  • Vincent Delporte, world champion 1998 and vice-champion of subaqueous world 2000 of hockey. Member of Subaqueous Hockey Club of Lagny.

Tourist monuments and places

  • Abbey church Saint-Pierre Our-Lady-of-Burning
(Classified under the Historic buildings on July 12th, 1886)
  • Old church Saint-Fursy
(Classified under the Historic buildings on February 19th, 1982)
  • Town hall
Old cloister of the abbey Saint-Pierre, the buildings of the town hall was built between 1755 and 1765 and was restored at the end of the 19th century. (Registered with the inventory of the Historic buildings on May 30th, 1969)
  • Real of the Five Pinions
the low part of the building of the Five Pinions, on the place of the Fountain, dates from the 12th century. It is about an old market, sheltering the merchants of the town of Ypres at the time of the fairs of Lagny to the Middle Ages. The original market was supplemented at the 16th century by dwellings, whose roofs out of pinion gave its name to the building. (Registered with the inventory of the Historic buildings on March 12th, 1970)
  • Fountain Saint-Fursy
Located on the place of the Fountain, the fountain Saint-Fursy current date of 1902. It replaces an original fountain, the 12th century and decorated low-reliefs, destroyed because of its outdatedness. The source which feeds the fountain is supposed to have spouted out miraculeusement under the stick of Saint-Fursy. (Registered with the inventory of the Historic buildings on March 16th, 1926) Currently in a public garden located behind abbey our-Lady-of-Burning Saint-Pierre, this statue goes back to 1923 and decorated in the beginning the place of the market, before being moved during the years 1960.
  • Lavoir
an old laundrette, always visible street Saint-Paul, date of the middle of the 19th century, at one time when took place of important restorations of the center town of Lagny-sur-Marne. It replaces various small laundrettes which were laid out around the fountain Saint-Fursy.

Events

  • "Carnaval" , first fortnight of March
  • " Sunday at the edge of the eau" , last Sunday in June, animations, walks, contest of painting at the edge of the Marne

Twinnings

External bonds

  • Official site of the city
  • Lagny-sur-Marne

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