Nogent-sur-Marne () is a

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in the eastern suburbs of

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. It is located from the centre of Paris. Nogent-sur-Marne is a '' sous-préfecture'' of the

Val-de-Marne Val-de-Marne (, "Vale of the Marne") is a department of France located in the Île-de-France region. Named after the river Marne, it is situated in the Grand Paris metropolis to the southeast of the City of Paris. In 2019, Val-de-Marne had a p ...

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'', being the seat of the Arrondissement of Nogent-sur-Marne.

History

Several origins of the name have been proposed: * Novigentum, "new people", i.e. prisoners brought by the Roman armies. * Nov. indicates fatty or soaked grounds. * Novientum which is the Gallic equivalent of medieval French "Villeneuve" or English "Newtown". In the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

, several castles were built. Le Château de Plaisance, built in the 13th century, which hosted

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and Jeanne de Bourbon in 1375. The only vestige which remains is a house of the current private hospital, 30 rue de Plaisance, as well as the bottom of the enclosing wall of the gardens. Le Château de Beauté-sur-Marne, 14th century, is a royal stay. Cardinal de Richelieu destroyed it in 1626. In the 17th century, whereas the rural population was made up of a majority of vine growers, the middle-class discovered the charms of the country, and settled in Nogent. Jean-Antoine Watteau lived in Mr. Lefevre's house his last moments and died there in 1721. The construction of the two railway lines: Paris–Mulhouse and Bastille–La Varenne in the 1850s still accelerated the process. The viaduct, built by Auvergnats and Belgians was destroyed once on 15 September 1870. Italians rebuilt it; an Italian community was established there. Coming, for the majority, from the province of

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, they were from the Valley of Nure or from the south of

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. Isolated since 1854 by the construction of a viaduct for the Paris–Mulhouse line, the commune of Le Perreux sur Marne is born after a fight of more than 10 years in 1887. On 28 February 1887, more than half of the territory of Nogent-sur-Marne was detached and became the commune of

Le Perreux-sur-Marne Le Perreux-sur-Marne (, literally ''Le Perreux on Marne'') is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. History The commune of Le Perreux-sur-Marne was created on ...

. In 1929, the commune of Nogent-sur-Marne lost a small part of its territory when the city of Paris annexed the

Bois de Vincennes The Bois de Vincennes (), located on the eastern edge of Paris, is the largest public park in the city. It was created between 1855 and 1866 by Emperor Napoleon III. The park is next to the Château de Vincennes, a former residence of the King ...

, the eastern fringe of which belonged to Nogent-sur-Marne. Viaduc ferroviaire de Nogent-sur-Marne 05

Viaduc ferroviaire de Nogent-sur-Marne 03

Population

International relations

Nogent-sur-Marne is twinned with: *

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, Poland * Nazaré, Portugal *

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, Germany * Val Nure, Italy *

Yverdon-les-Bains Yverdon-les-Bains () (called Eburodunum and Ebredunum during the Roman era) is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is the seat of the district. The population of Yverdon-les-Bains, , wa ...

, Switzerland The commune also has agreements of friendship and co-operation with: *

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, Portugal * Jezzine, Lebanon *

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, Kazakhstan *

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, Israël * Nouvion-le-Vineux, France

Transport

* Subway (RER): ** Nogent-sur-Marne station on Paris RER line ** Nogent – Le Perreux station on Paris RER line * Buses: **116 (

Rosny-sous-Bois Rosny-sous-Bois () is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. It is the seat of the national centre of road information of the national gendarmerie. Population Heraldry Transport Rosny ...

- RER Val-de-Fontenay - Champigny - Saint-Maur RER) **114 ( Gare du Raincy-Villemonble - Château de Vincennes) **113 ( Nogent - Chelles) **120 ( Nogent - Noisy-le-Grand Mont d'Est ou Mairie) **210 ( Château de Vincennes - Gare de Villiers) **317 ( Nogent Gare SNCF - Créteil Hôtel de Ville), * N35 (Night Bus) ( Gare de Lyon (75) ↔ Nogent-le-Perreux RER). * Autoroute F

Autoroutes: ** (Paris ↔ East of France, forms part of and ) ** (Paris Super-Périphérique) ***''both at'' Sinnbild Autobahnausfahrt

03 -

A4–A86 Junction, Nogent-sur-Marne * * by boat, by Marne, from Paris.

Education

The commune has the following public preschools and primary schools: * Preschools: Fontenay, Gallieni, Val de Beauté, Paul Bert, and Guy Môquet * Elementary schools: Paul Bert, Guy Môquet, Val de Beauté * School groups (combined preschool and elementary school): Léonard de Vinci and Victor Hugo The commune has two public junior high schools, Collège Watteau and Collège Branly. Collège Pierre Brossolette is in nearby Le Perreux. The commune has two public academic high schools/sixth-form colleges, and Lycée Louis Armand, as well as two vocational high schools, La Source and Val de Beauté. Private schools: * * Bibliothèque Cavanna serves as the municipal library.Home
Bibliothèque Cavanna. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.

Notable people

Famous people born in Nogent-sur-Marne

Kareen Antonn Kareen Antonn (born Kareen Antonopoulou on 24 May 1980 in Nogent-sur-Marne, France) is a French singer of Greek and Spanish origin. In 2003, she recorded a pair of duets with British singer Bonnie Tyler; " Si demain... (Turn Around)" and "Si To ...

, singer * Emile Armet de Lisle, industrialist and chemist * Jacques de Sieyes, WWI hero, activist * Noura Ben Slama, handball player *

Mamadi Berthe Mamadi Berthe (born 17 January 1983) is a French retired footballer. Career Berthe was part of the Mali U-20 team who finish third in group stage of 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship. He was part of the Malian 2004 Olympic football team, who ...

, footballer * Cindy Billaud, athlete * François Cavanna, author and satirical newspaper editor *

Émilie Deleuze Émilie Deleuze (born 7 May 1964) is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed eight films since 1986. Her film '' Peau neuve'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. She is the daughter o ...

, film director * Auguste Dussourd, squash player *

Coralie Demay Coralie Demay (born 10 October 1992) is a French professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . Major results ;2016 : Fenioux France Trophy ::1st Points race ::1st Scratch ;2018 : 1st Overall Rás na mBan ...

, racing cyclist *

Thierry Escaich Thierry Joseph-Louis Escaich (born 8 May 1965) is a French organist and composer. Life Born in Nogent-sur-Marne, Escaich studied organ, improvisation and composition at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), where he won eight First Prizes an ...

, organist and composer * Stéphane Galifi, squash player * Patrice Gerges, Paralympic athlete *

Jean Giraud Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Bandes dessinées, Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseu ...

, comics artist * Mélissa Gomes, footballer * Johanne Gomis, basketball player *

Magaye Gueye Magaye Serigne Falilou Dit Nelson Gueye (born 6 July 1990) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Super League Greece 2 club Anagennisi Karditsa. He is a former French youth and under-21 international, but in 2012 he accepted ...

, footballer * Jean-Jacques Guissart, rower * Cloé Hache, swimmer * Loic Korval, judoka * Stephane Lambese, footballer *

Henri Lebègue Henri Lebègue (27 February 1856 – 19 October 1938) was a French palaeographer, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études. The French historian Ernest Lebègue (1862–1943), was his brother. Henri Lebègue was also the fa ...

, palaeographer * Stéphane Lecat, long-distance swimmer * Romain Le Gac, ice dancer * Philippe Louviot, cyclist *

Louis Massignon Louis Massignon (25 July 1883 – 31 October 1962) was a Catholic scholar of Islam and a pioneer of Catholic-Muslim mutual understanding. He was an influential figure in the twentieth century with regard to the Catholic church's relationship w ...

, academic and scholar of Islamic studies * Bertrand de Montaudoüin, athlete and soldier * Maria Murano, opera singer * Lilian Nalis, footballer *

Pierre Oster Pierre Oster (6 March 1933 – 22 October 2020) was a French poet and editor born into a Luxembourgish family. After his marriage to Angella Soussoueva in 1971, he often credited his wife in addition to himself on his works. Biography Oster stu ...

, poet * Jeff Panacloc, ventriloquist * Pierre Papadiamandis, pianist and songwriter * Michel-Marie Poulain, painter *

Cécile Rigaux Cécile Rigaux (born 20 April 1969 in Nogent sur Marne) is a former female beach volleyball player from France, who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Partnering Anabelle Prawerman she claimed the silver medal at the 19 ...

, beach volleyball player * Jacques Sablon, actor *

Jean Sablon Jean Sablon (Nogent-sur-Marne 25 March 1906 – Cannes 24 February 1994) was a French singer, songwriter, composer and actor. He was one of the first French singers to immerse himself in jazz. The man behind several songs by big French and Amer ...

, singer and actor * Baïssama Sankoh, footballer * Franck Signorino, footballer * Amadou Soukouna, footballer *

Félix Trombe Felix Trombe (1906–1985) was a French engineer.Jean-Jacques Amigo, "Trombe (Félix)", in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. () ...

, engineer and physicist * Christian Vander, musician *

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (; born 21 October 1990), often referred to by his initials, MVL, is a French chess grandmaster who is the reigning World Blitz Chess Champion. With a peak rating of 2819, Vachier-Lagrave is the seventh-highest ...

, chess grandmaster * Marc Vignal, musicologist * Nicolas Taravel, footballer

Lived in or associated with Nogent-sur-Marne

André Bazin André Bazin (; 18 April 1918 – 11 November 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist. Bazin started to write about film in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine ''Cahiers du cinéma'' in 1951, ...

, film critic and theorist * Jules Benoit-Lévy, painter and engraver * Bérurier Noir, punk rock band *

Maurice Boitel Maurice Boitel (July 31, 1919 – August 11, 2007) was a French painter. Artistic life Boitel belonged to the art movement called "La Jeune Peinture" ("Young Picture") of the School of Paris,The School of Paris (1945–1965) by Lydia Harambourg. ...

, painter *

Mathieu Boogaerts Mathieu Boogaerts (born 1970 in Fontenay-sous-Bois), is a French singer-songwriter. Biography The son of a pharmacist mother and antiquarian father, Mathieu spent his early childhood in Fontenay sous Bois before acquainting himself with the pian ...

, singer and songwriter *

Benjamin Castaldi Benjamin Castaldi (; born 28 March 1970) is a French television host, columnist, radio host and producer. He is the former host of '' Secret Story'' which is a spinoff of '' Loft Story'' that he hosted as well. Biography Family Benjamin Castald ...

, television host * Arlette Chabot, journalist * Zhang Chongren, sculptor and friend of

Hergé Georges Prosper Remi (; 22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé (; ), from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials ''RG'', was a Belgian cartoonist. He is best known for creating ''The Adventures of Tintin'', ...

* Paul Colin, graphic artist and illustrator *

Ciryl Gane Ciryl Jacky Gane (born 12 April 1990) is a French professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Heavyweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion. A professi ...

, mixed martial artist *

Marcel Gimond Marcel Antoine Gimond (1894–1961) was a French sculptor known for his busts, statues, and portraits in bronze. Biography Gimond was born in the Ardèche region of France. He first studied at the ''Beaux-Arts'' Academy in Lyon and was the stu ...

, sculptor *

Yvette Horner Yvette Horner ( Hornère; – ) was a French accordionist, pianist and composer known for performing with the Tour de France during the 1950s and 1960s. During her 70-year long career, she gave more than two thousand concerts and released around ...

, accordionist and pianist *

Daniel du Janerand Daniel du Janerand (18 July 1919 – 19 July 1990) was a French painter, muralist, and book illustrator. Artistic life He was born in the "Marais", center of Paris, on 18 July 1919. He studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Ar ...

, painter * Maxime Lalanne, painter * Alexandre Langlois, indologist * Clément Michu, actor * Tony Muréna, accordionist and composer * Pierre Pincemaille, organist *

Lazare Ponticelli Lazare Ponticelli (born Lazzaro Ponticelli; 24 December 1897, later mistranscribed as 7 December – 12 March 2008), Knight of Vittorio Veneto, was at 110, the last surviving officially recognized veteran of the First World War from France an ...

, veteran of the First World War * Jules Rossi, cyclist * Michel Rousseau, swimmer *

Charles Trenet Louis Charles Augustin Georges Trenet (; 18 May 1913 – 19 February 2001) was a renowned French singer-songwriter who composed both the music and the lyrics to nearly a thousand songs over a career that lasted more than 60 years. These include ...

, singer and songwriter *

Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant, 1st Comte Vaillant (6 December 1790 – 4 June 1872), born in Dijon, was a Marshal of France. Vaillant entered the French army in 1809 in the corps of engineers. He served in the French invasion of Russia (18 ...

, military commander *

Laurent Voulzy Lucien Voulzy (, born 18 December 1948), better known as Laurent Voulzy (), is a French singer-songwriter, composer and musician. Life and career Voulzy was born in Paris, France. He originally led the English-pop-influenced Le Temple de Vénus ...

, singer and songwriter *

Antoine Watteau Jean-Antoine Watteau (, , ; baptised October 10, 1684died July 18, 1721) Alsavailablevia Oxford Art Online (subscription needed). was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, a ...

, painter

References

External links

Nogent-sur-Marne official website

Nogent-sur-Marne local community website

Association du Coteau de Nogent sur Marne
Nogent-sur-Marne's association for the protection of the environment {{DEFAULTSORT:Nogentsurmarne Communes of Val-de-Marne Subprefectures in France

History

Population

International relations

Transport

Education

Notable people

Famous people born in Nogent-sur-Marne

Lived in or associated with Nogent-sur-Marne

See also

References

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