Vitry-le-François (original) (raw)
Subprefecture and commune in Grand Est, France
| Vitry-le-François | |
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 The town hall in Vitry-le-François |
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| Coordinates: 48°43′32″N 4°35′07″E / 48.7256°N 4.5853°E / 48.7256; 4.5853 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Marne |
| Arrondissement | Vitry-le-François |
| Canton | Vitry-le-François-Champagne et Der |
| Intercommunality | Vitry, Champagne et Der |
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| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Jean-Pierre Bouquet[1] |
| Area1 | 6.45 km2 (2.49 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 11,349 |
| • Density | 1,800/km2 (4,600/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 51649 /51300 |
| Elevation | 105 m (344 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Vitry-le-François (French pronunciation: [vitʁi lə fʁɑ̃swa] ⓘ) is a commune in the Marne department in northeastern France. It is located on the river Marne and is the western terminus of the Marne–Rhine Canal. Vitry-le-François station has rail connections to Paris, Reims, Strasbourg, Metz, Dijon and several regional destinations.
The present town is a relatively recent construction, having been built in 1545 at the behest of King Francis who wished to replace, on a new site, Vitry-en-Perthois, which in 1544 had been entirely destroyed as part of the backwash from the king's Italian War of 1542–46.[3] The new Vitry was to be a modern city, constructed according to a plan produced by Girolamo Marini. The king's role in its creation resulted in Vitry-le-François receiving the king's name as part of its own name.
At the beginning of World War I in August 1914, Joseph Joffre established the Grand Quartier Général at the Place Royer-Collard.
In 1961, a terrorist attack took place on a train going between Strasbourg and Paris.
Historical population
| YearPop.±% p.a.1793 7,385— 1800 6,925−0.91%1806 7,194+0.64%1821 6,909−0.27%1831 6,976+0.10%1836 6,822−0.45%1841 7,749+2.58%1846 7,412−0.89%1851 7,795+1.01%1856 7,151−1.71%1861 7,263+0.31%1866 7,431+0.46%1872 6,898−1.23%1876 7,616+2.51%1881 7,760+0.38%1886 7,670−0.23%1891 8,022+0.90%1896 8,400+0.93% | YearPop.±% p.a.1901 8,561+0.38%1906 8,487−0.17%1911 8,511+0.06%1921 8,568+0.07%1926 8,876+0.71%1931 9,082+0.46%1936 9,061−0.05%1946 7,584−1.76%1954 11,131+4.91%1962 14,795+3.62%1968 16,879+2.22%1975 19,372+1.99%1982 18,261−0.84%1990 17,033−0.87%1999 16,737−0.19%2007 14,873−1.47%2012 13,065−2.56%2017 12,133−1.47% |
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| Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE[5] |
- Its church of Notre-Dame is a 17th-century building with fine 18th-century monuments.
- A convent of the Récollets was later converted to contain the town hall, the court-house, a library and a small museum.
- There is a bronze statue of Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (1763–1845), the politician and philosopher, a native of the district.[6]
Vitry-le-François is twinned with:
Tauberbischofsheim, Germany, since 1961- René Gateaux (1889–1914), mathematician
- Guy Georges (born 1962), serial killer
- René Herbin (1911–1953), classical pianist
- Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754), mathematician
- Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (1717–1778), proto-communist philosopher
- Simhah ben Samuel of Vitry (fl. c. 1100), Talmudist
| Climate data for Vitry-le-François (Frignicourt) (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1974–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 16.6(61.9) | 21.1(70.0) | 26.0(78.8) | 29.1(84.4) | 34.0(93.2) | 37.1(98.8) | 41.7(107.1) | 40.3(104.5) | 34.5(94.1) | 29.4(84.9) | 23.3(73.9) | 17.7(63.9) | 41.7(107.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.5(43.7) | 7.9(46.2) | 12.3(54.1) | 16.3(61.3) | 20.1(68.2) | 23.5(74.3) | 26.1(79.0) | 25.9(78.6) | 21.5(70.7) | 16.3(61.3) | 10.3(50.5) | 7.0(44.6) | 16.1(61.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 3.7(38.7) | 4.4(39.9) | 7.6(45.7) | 10.7(51.3) | 14.6(58.3) | 17.7(63.9) | 19.9(67.8) | 19.7(67.5) | 15.9(60.6) | 12.0(53.6) | 7.2(45.0) | 4.4(39.9) | 11.5(52.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 0.9(33.6) | 0.9(33.6) | 2.9(37.2) | 5.1(41.2) | 9.0(48.2) | 11.9(53.4) | 13.7(56.7) | 13.5(56.3) | 10.2(50.4) | 7.6(45.7) | 4.1(39.4) | 1.7(35.1) | 6.8(44.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −22.0(−7.6) | −14.8(5.4) | −11.1(12.0) | −4.9(23.2) | −1.5(29.3) | 2.3(36.1) | 5.3(41.5) | 4.1(39.4) | 1.0(33.8) | −3.9(25.0) | −10.7(12.7) | −16.0(3.2) | −22.0(−7.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 55.9(2.20) | 51.3(2.02) | 50.5(1.99) | 47.1(1.85) | 62.1(2.44) | 53.3(2.10) | 59.0(2.32) | 58.9(2.32) | 57.3(2.26) | 65.5(2.58) | 60.0(2.36) | 73.7(2.90) | 694.6(27.35) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 11.2 | 10.4 | 10.1 | 8.7 | 10.1 | 9.2 | 8.2 | 7.7 | 8.2 | 10.3 | 11.2 | 12.3 | 117.7 |
| Source: Meteociel[7] |
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Vitry-le-François, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Vitry-le-François". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 151. - ^ "Normales et records pour Frignicourt (51)". Meteociel. Retrieved 21 November 2024.