Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse

Commune in Île-de-France, France

(2020–2026) Dominique Bavoil^[1]Area9.65 km² (3.73 sq mi)Population7,747 • Density800/km² (2,100/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal codeElevation66–169 m (217–554 ft)
(avg. 76 m or 249 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʁemi lɛ ʃəvʁøz] ^ⓘ, literally Saint-Rémy near Chevreuse) is a commune in the Yvelines department, in the Île-de-France region of north-central France.

Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse station is the southwestern endpoint of the RER B line from Paris.^[3]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	3,488	—
1975	4,807	+4.69%
1982	5,221	+1.19%
1990	5,589	+0.86%
1999	7,651	+3.55%
2007	7,879	+0.37%
2012	7,730	−0.38%
2017	7,862	+0.34%
Source: INSEE[4]

Notable people

• Pierre de Coubertin (1863–1937), often considered by some the father of the modern Olympic Games.
• Eugène Imbert (1821–1898), 19th-century chansonnier, died here
• André Wogenscky (1916–2004), French Modernist architect, and member of the Académie des beaux-arts.
• Marta Pan (1923–2008), French abstract sculptor of Hungarian origin.

See also

• Communes of the Yvelines department

References

External links

• Media related to Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse at Wikimedia Commons