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Mauperthuis
Mauperthuis () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. The village is famous for having produced five Musketeers including d'Artagnan, who was made famous in Alexandre Dumas, père's books. The ruined Château d'Artagnan still exists. Much of the land once belonged to the Montesquieu Family. This one tiny village billeted some of the U.S. Air Service (precursor to the U.S. Air Force) while the men flew out of the adjacent village of Saints. They were in Mauperthuis probably for just short of two months – from 8 July to 1 September 1918 out of the seven months it saw combat. Two adjacent villages – Saints and Touquin – also play a role in the lives of these men and the U.S. Air Service. The men were based in Touquin from the end of June until 8 July, when they moved to Saints. The men were lodged in Mauperthuis, half a mile from Saints, while they were flying out of Saints. Quentin Roosevelt was billeted here w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saints, Seine-et-Marne
Saints () is a former commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the ÃŽle-de-France region in north-central France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Beautheil-Saints. 3 July 2018 . History Saints appears on early maps as ''Sanz''. It is an agricultural village perched above the Petit Aubetin River. For a short period of time, this village became the operating base of almost the entire US Air Service, the predecessor of the . The 1st Pursuit Group was based in Saints for ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communauté D'agglomération Coulommiers Pays De Brie
The Communauté d'agglomération Coulommiers Pays de Brie is the ''communauté d'agglomération'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Coulommiers. It is located in the Seine-et-Marne department, in the Île-de-France region, north-central France. It was created in January 2018 by the merger of the former Communauté de communes du Pays de Coulommiers and the Communauté de communes du Pays Fertois.Arrêté préfectoral 14 November 2017, p 32 In January 2020 it was expanded with 12 communes from the former communauté de communes du Pays Créçois. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubetin
The Aubetin is a long river in the Marne and Seine-et-Marne '' départements'', northeastern France. Its source is at Les Essarts-le-Vicomte, northeast of Nogent-sur-Seine. It flows generally west-northwest. It is a left tributary of the Grand Morin into which it flows at Pommeuse, west of Coulommiers. Communes along its course This list is ordered from source to mouth: *Marne: Les Essarts-le-Vicomte, Bouchy-Saint-Genest, *Seine-et-Marne: Louan-Villegruis-Fontaine, Villiers-Saint-Georges, Augers-en-Brie, Cerneux, Courtacon, Beton-Bazoches, Frétoy, Dagny, Amillis, Beautheil, Saints, Mauperthuis Mauperthuis () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. The village is famous for having produced five Musketeers including d'Artagnan, who was made famous in Alexandre Dumas, père's ..., Saint-Augustin, Pommeuse, References Rivers of France Rivers of Marne (department) Rivers of Seine-et-Marne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 2025):Périmètre des groupements en 2025 BANATIC. Accessed 28 May 2025. * Communauté d'agglomération Coulommiers Pays de Brie * Communauté d'agglomération Grand Paris Sud Seine-Essonne-Sénart (partly) * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of France
A () is a level of administrative divisions of France, administrative division in the France, French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipality, municipalities in Canada and the United States; ' in Germany; ' in Italy; ' in Spain; or civil parishes in the United Kingdom. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlet (place), hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are ( or ), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers. Except for the Municipal arrondissem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 eastern half. In 2019, it had a population of 1,421,197.Populations légales 2019: 77 Seine-et-Marne INSEE Its is Melun, although both Meaux and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Departments Of France
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivity, territorial collectivities"), between the Regions of France, administrative regions and the Communes of France, communes. There are a total of 101 departments, consisting of ninety-six departments in metropolitan France, and five Overseas department and region, overseas departments, which are also classified as overseas regions. Departments are further subdivided into 333 Arrondissements of France, arrondissements and 2,054 Cantons of France, cantons (as of 2023). These last two levels of government have no political autonomy, instead serving as the administrative basis for the local organisation of police, fire departments, and, in certain cases, elections. Each department is administered by an elected body called a departmental council (France), departmental council ( , ). From 1800 to April 2015, these were called gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ÃŽle-de-France
The ÃŽle-de-France (; ; ) is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023. Centered on the capital Paris, it is located in the north-central part of the country and often called the Paris Region (, ). ÃŽle-de-France is densely populated and retains a prime economic position on the national stage, and it covers , about 2% of Metropolitan France, metropolitan French territory. Its 2017 population was nearly one-fifth of the national total. The region is made up of eight administrative Departments of France, departments: Paris, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne, Val-de-Marne, Val-d'Oise and Yvelines. It was created as the "District of the Paris Region" in 1961. In 1976, when its status was aligned with the French administrative regions created in 1972, it was renamed after the historic province of ÃŽle-de-France. Residents are sometimes referred to as ''Franciliens'', an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of France
France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (, singular ), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collectivities, which have a semi-autonomous status). All of the thirteen metropolitan administrative regions (including Corsica ) are further subdivided into two to thirteen administrative departments, with the prefect of each region's administrative centre's department also acting as the regional prefect. The overseas regions administratively consist of only one department each and hence also have the status of overseas departments. Most administrative regions also have the status of regional territorial collectivities, which comes with a local government, with departmental and communal collectivities below the regional level. The exceptions are Corsica, French Guiana, Mayotte and Martinique, where region and department functions are managed by single l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musketeer
A musketeer ( ) was a type of soldier equipped with a musket. Musketeers were an important part of early modern warfare, particularly in Europe, as they normally comprised the majority of their infantry. The musketeer was a precursor to the rifleman. Muskets were replaced by breech loading rifles as the almost universal firearm for modern armies during the period 1850 to 1870. The traditional designation of "musketeer" for an infantry private survived in the Imperial German Army until World War I. Historical antecedents The hand cannon was invented in Song dynasty China in the 12th century and was in widespread use there in the 13th century. It spread westward across Asia during the 14th century. The hand cannon evolved into the arquebus that appeared in Europe and the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century. The term musket was originally used to describe a heavy arquebus capable of penetrating heavy armor. Although this heavy version of the musket fell out of use after the mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Artagnan
Charles de Batz de Castelmore (), also known as d'Artagnan and later Count d'Artagnan ( 1611 – 25 June 1673), was a French Musketeer who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard. He died at the siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War. A fictionalised account of his life by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras formed the basis for the d'Artagnan Romances of Alexandre Dumas ''père'', most famously including ''The Three Musketeers'' (1844). The heavily fictionalised version of d'Artagnan featured in Dumas' works and their subsequent screen adaptations is now far more widely known than the real historical figure. Early life D'Artagnan was born at the Château de Castelmore near Lupiac in south-western France. His father, Bertrand de Batz lord of Castelmore, was the son of a newly ennobled merchant, Arnaud de Batz, who purchased the Château de Castelmore. Charles de Batz went to Paris in the 1630s, using the name of his mother Françoise de Montesquiou d'Arta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
