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]

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