Nogent-sur-Seine

Subprefecture and commune in Grand Est, France

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Subprefecture and commune in Grand Est, France

Coat of arms

Location of Nogent-sur-Seine

(2020–2026) Estelle Bomberger-Rivot^[1]Area

20.08 km² (7.75 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

5,809 • Density290/km² (750/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

10268 /10400

Elevation60–113 m (197–371 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Nogent-sur-Seine (French pronunciation: [nɔʒɑ̃ syʁ sɛn] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. The headquarters of The Soufflet Group is located here, as is the Musée Camille Claudel. The large Nogent Nuclear Power Plant is located here.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	3,174	—
1800	3,201	+0.12%
1806	3,158	−0.23%
1821	2,926	−0.51%
1831	3,277	+1.14%
1836	3,355	+0.47%
1841	3,383	+0.17%
1846	3,515	+0.77%
1851	3,469	−0.26%
1856	3,486	+0.10%
1861	3,530	+0.25%
1866	3,641	+0.62%
1872	3,474	−0.78%
1876	3,435	−0.28%
1881	3,469	+0.20%
1886	3,652	+1.03%
1891	3,704	+0.28%
1896	3,723	+0.10%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	3,818	+0.51%
1906	3,829	+0.06%
1911	3,976	+0.76%
1921	3,373	−1.63%
1926	3,611	+1.37%
1931	3,683	+0.40%
1936	3,631	−0.28%
1946	3,589	−0.12%
1954	3,333	−0.92%
1962	3,777	+1.58%
1968	4,447	+2.76%
1975	4,671	+0.70%
1982	5,009	+1.00%
1990	5,505	+1.19%
1999	5,963	+0.89%
2007	5,984	+0.04%
2012	5,992	+0.03%
2017	5,980	−0.04%

Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

Personalities

Sculptor Camille Claudel lived in Nogent-sur-Seine with her family from 1876 to 1879.

Frédéric Moreau, the hero of Gustave Flaubert's novel Sentimental Education, is a native of Nogent-sur-Seine.

The abbey of Nogent-sur-Seine was destroyed during the French Revolution. Fragments of it were used in 1817 in making the canopy over the graves of Pierre Abélard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

International relations

Nogent-sur-Seine is twinned with:

Rielasingen-Worblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - since 1973
Joal-Fadiouth, Senegal - 1987

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Nogent-sur-Seine, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nogent-sur-Seine.

Official town website (in French)
Dubois-Boucher Museum in Nogent-sur-Seine (in French) This link is not currently active
Félix Charpentier. Sculpture in musée Paul Dubois-Alfred Boucher