Saint-Jean-de-Braye

Commune in Centre-Val de Loire, France

(2020–2026) Vanessa Slimani^[1]Area13.7 km² (5.3 sq mi)Population21,700 • Density1,600/km² (4,100/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal codeElevation95–127 m (312–417 ft)
(avg. 100 m or 330 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Jean-de-Braye (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ də bʁɛ]) is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. It is an eastern suburb of Orléans. The organist and musicologist Norbert Dufourcq (1904–1990) was born in the commune.

On 14 February 2020, the municipal council voted unanimously to suspend the twin towns partnership with the Polish Tuchów as a result of the controversial anti-LGBT resolution passed by the Tuchów authorities.^[3][4][5]

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 880 —     1800 1,114 +3.43% 1806 1,095 −0.29% 1821 1,089 −0.04% 1831 1,269 +1.54% 1836 1,287 +0.28% 1841 2,304 +12.35% 1846 2,306 +0.02% 1851 1,404 −9.45% 1856 1,507 +1.43% 1861 1,568 +0.80% 1866 1,648 +1.00% 1872 1,740 +0.91% 1876 1,877 +1.91% 1881 1,905 +0.30% 1886 1,962 +0.59% 1891 1,911 −0.53% 1896 1,985 +0.76%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 1,858 −1.31% 1906 1,852 −0.06% 1911 1,994 +1.49% 1921 2,012 +0.09% 1926 2,207 +1.87% 1931 2,635 +3.61% 1936 2,642 +0.05% 1946 3,577 +3.08% 1954 4,146 +1.86% 1962 6,619 +6.02% 1968 7,601 +2.33% 1975 12,120 +6.89% 1982 13,318 +1.36% 1990 16,387 +2.63% 1999 17,758 +0.90% 2007 18,626 +0.60% 2012 19,404 +0.82% 2017 20,751 +1.35%
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Source: EHESS[6] and INSEE (1968-2017)[7]

See also

• Communes of the Loiret department

References