Samoreau () is a
commune
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in the
Seine-et-Marne
Seine-et-Marne () is a department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. Named after the rivers Seine and Marne, it is the region's largest department with an area of 5,915 square kilometres (2,284 square miles); it roughly covers its ...
department in the
Île-de-France
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region
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in north-central France.
Demographics
Inhabitants of Samoreau are called ''Samoréens''.
Famous residents
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Matthias Blazek
Matthias Blazek (born 1966) is a German local historian and journalist.
Biography
Matthias Blazek was born in Celle and spent his youth in Hanover, where he completed his '' Abitur'' at the Lutherschule Hannover in 1987.
From 1987 to 1999 he ...
, German
local historian
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and journalist, lived as a member of the German Military Delegation in France in the village from 1994 to 1999
* Jean-Pierre Lacloche, French writer, buried in the cemetery of Samoreau
* Olivier Larronde, French poet, buried in the cemetery of Samoreau
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Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic, buried in the cemetery of Samoreau (next to his son Anatole)
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Bernard Baissait graphic design born in 1948
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Misia Sert
Misia Sert (born Maria Zofia Olga Zenajda Godebska; 30 March 1872 – 15 October 1950) was a pianist of Polish descent who hosted an artistic salon in Paris. She was a patron and friend of numerous artists, for whom she regularly posed.
Early li ...
, buried in the cemetery of Samoreau in 1950.
See also
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Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department
The following is a list of the 507 communes of the Seine-et-Marne department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):[Exhibition catalogue
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Art or museum exhibition catalogues
Catalogues for ...]
, exposition about the history of Samoreau, Samoreau 1987
* Comité de Jumelage Samoreau/Bernried: Bulletins No 1–4, Samoreau 1996–1999
* Prussia: ''Der deutsch-französische Krieg, 1870–71 / redigirt von der Kriegsgeschichtlichen Abtheilung des Großen Generalstabes''. Berlin 1878, p. 60
External links
Official site
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Communes of Seine-et-Marne
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