Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse

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

RER B line railway station

Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse
Commune
Lake Beausejour in Saint Remy les Chevreuse
Location of Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse
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Coordinates: 48°42′23″N 2°04′21″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Yvelines
Arrondissement	Rambouillet
Canton	Maurepas
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Dominique Bavoil[1]
Area 1	9.65 km2 (3.73 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	7,747
• Density	800/km2 (2,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	78575 /78470
Elevation	66–169 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 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]

Education

Preschools include Jacques Liauzun and Saint Exupéry, and elementary schools include Jean Jaurès, Jean Moulin, and Jacques Liauzun. There are two area junior high schools, Pierre de Coubertin in Chevreuse and Hélène Boucher in Voisins-le-Bretonneux. The area senior high school/sixth form college is Lycée de la Vallée de Chevreuse in Gif-sur-Yvette.^[5]

Notable people

• Pierre de Coubertin (1863–1937), cofounder of the International Olympic Committee, considered 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