Thorigny-sur-Marne

Commune in Île-de-France, France

Coat of arms

Location of Thorigny-sur-Marne

(2020–2026) Manuel Luis Da Silva^[1]Area

5.17 km² (2.00 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

10,405 • Density2,000/km² (5,200/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

77464 /77400

Elevation38–122 m (125–400 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Thorigny-sur-Marne (French pronunciation: [tɔʁiɲi syʁ maʁn] ^ⓘ, literally Thorigny on Marne) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Demographics

Inhabitants of Thorigny-sur-Marne are called Thorigniens.

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Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	5,768	—
1975	7,059	+2.93%
1982	7,596	+1.05%
1990	8,326	+1.15%
1999	9,029	+0.90%
2007	9,386	+0.49%
2012	9,107	−0.60%
2017	10,154	+2.20%
Source: INSEE^[3]

Education

As of 2016^[update] the three preschools have 376 students, and the three elementary schools have 640 students. The preschools are: Ecole Maternellle Les Cerisiers, Ecole Maternelle Clémenceau, and Ecole Maternelle Les Pointes. The elementary schools are Ecole Elémentaire Les Cerisiers, Ecole Elémentaire Gambetta, and Ecole Elémentaire Les Pointes.^[4] The commune has one junior high school, Collège du Moulin à vent, and a vocational high school, Lycée Auguste Perdonnet. The area general senior high school/sixth form college, Lycée Van Dongen, is in Lagny-sur-Marne.^[5]

History

In 1649, during the reign of Louis XIV, Thorigny-Sur-Marne was brutally pillaged for 12 days by the Regiment de Conti after agreeing to give them quarter.^[6] Witnesses describe how they "used extraordinary violence, having beaten and ransomed the inhabitants, pillaged and burned their furnishings...cut down their fruit trees...eaten and scattered their flock."^[7]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "Les écoles." Thorigny-sur-Marne. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
^ "Enseignement secondaire." Thorigny-sur-Marne. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
^ Lynn, John A. “How War Fed War: The Tax of Violence and Contributions during the Grand Siècle.” The Journal of Modern History 65, no. 2 (1993): 286. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2124447.
^ "Requête des habitans du bourg de Thorigny, eslection de Sens," from an order of February 10, 1650, in Peter Jonathan Berger, "Military and Financial Government in France, 1648-1661" (Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1979), p. 94.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thorigny-sur-Marne.

Official site (in French)
1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région (in English)
Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)