Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne

Coulommiers (French pronunciation: [kulɔmje] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.

Coulommiers
Commune
Commanderie of the Knights Templar
Coat of arms
Location of Coulommiers
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Coordinates: 48°49′29″N 3°06′24″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-et-Marne
Arrondissement	Meaux
Canton	Coulommiers
Intercommunality	CA Coulommiers Pays de Brie
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Laurence Picard[1]
Area 1	10.93 km2 (4.22 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	15,696
• Density	1,400/km2 (3,700/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	77131 /77120
Elevation	66–156 m (217–512 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

It is also the name of a cheese of the Brie family produced around that city. Coulommiers station has rail connections to Tournan-en-Brie and Paris.

The town has a statue to Commandant Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire who, in 1792, killed himself rather than surrender Verdun to the Prussians.^[3]

Demographics

Inhabitants of Coulommiers are called Columériens.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	11,263	—
1975	11,498	+0.30%
1982	11,886	+0.48%
1990	13,087	+1.21%
1999	13,852	+0.63%
2007	13,649	−0.18%
2012	14,708	+1.51%
2017	14,838	+0.18%
Source: INSEE[4]

Twin towns

Coulommiers was twinned with Leighton Buzzard in 1958^[5] and with Titisee-Neustadt in 1971. The twinning was renewed in 1982.

History

Coulommiers was selected to be the first town in France to go fully digital for its terrestrial television, with analog switch-off in January 2009.

Notable people

• André René Roussimoff (1946–1992); better known as André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor (though was billed as hailing from "Grenoble, in the French Alps)
• Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire, military officer

See also

• Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department