Villiers-sur-Marne

Villiers-sur-Marne (French pronunciation: [vilje syʁ maʁn] ^ⓘ, literally Villiers sur Marne) is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 14.8 km (9.2 mi) from the center of Paris.

Villiers-sur-Marne
Commune
The Place Rémoiville
Coat of arms
Paris and inner ring departments
Location of Villiers-sur-Marne
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Coordinates: 48°49′39″N 2°32′41″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-de-Marne
Arrondissement	Nogent-sur-Marne
Canton	Villiers-sur-Marne
Intercommunality	Grand Paris
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jacques-Alain Bénisti[1]
Area 1	4.33 km2 (1.67 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	32,547
• Density	7,500/km2 (19,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	94079 /94350
Elevation	66–103 m (217–338 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The commune of Villiers-sur-Marne is part of the sector of Porte de Paris, one of the four sectors of the "new town" of Marne-la-Vallée.

History

On 7 July 1899, a part of the territory of Villiers-sur-Marne was detached and merged with a part of the territory of La Queue-en-Brie and a part of the territory of Chennevières-sur-Marne to create the commune of Le Plessis-Trévise.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 600 —     1800 718 +2.60% 1806 671 −1.12% 1821 704 +0.32% 1831 744 +0.55% 1836 700 −1.21% 1841 721 +0.59% 1846 765 +1.19% 1851 719 −1.23% 1856 853 +3.48% 1861 824 −0.69% 1866 919 +2.21% 1872 990 +1.25% 1876 1,109 +2.88% 1881 1,287 +3.02% 1886 1,493 +3.01% 1891 1,750 +3.23% 1896 2,055 +3.27%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 1,935 −1.20% 1906 2,552 +5.69% 1911 3,011 +3.36% 1921 3,827 +2.43% 1926 5,613 +7.96% 1931 6,145 +1.83% 1936 7,020 +2.70% 1946 7,172 +0.21% 1954 9,205 +3.17% 1962 13,068 +4.48% 1968 15,789 +3.20% 1975 22,293 +5.05% 1982 22,022 −0.17% 1990 22,740 +0.40% 1999 26,632 +1.77% 2007 28,158 +0.70% 2012 27,737 −0.30% 2017 28,456 +0.51%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

Transport

Villiers-sur-Marne is served by Villiers-sur-Marne–Le Plessis-Trévise station on Paris RER line E.

Education

There are seven preschools and seven elementary schools.^[5]

• Preschools: J. et M. Dudragne, Théophile Gautier, Edouard Herriot, Jean Jaures, Charles Peguy, Charles Perrault, Jean Renon^[6]
• Elementary schools: Albert Camus, Léon Dauer, J. et M. Dudragne, Jules Ferry, Edouard Herriot, Jean Jaures, Jean Renon^[7]

There are two junior high schools, Collège Pierre et Marie Curie, and Collège Les Prunais.^[8]

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Villiers-sur-Marne is twinned with:^[9]

• Entroncamento, Portugal
• Friedberg, Germany

Until November 2011, it was also twinned with Bishop's Stortford in the United Kingdom, when the English town controversially cut its links with Villiers-sur-Marne, as well as Friedberg.^[10]

Notable people

• Mossi Traoré, fashion designer
• Vanessa Paradis, singer
• Hayat Boumeddiene, fugitive and suspected accomplice of her partner Amedy Coulibaly, the main suspect for the Montrouge shooting and the hostage-taker and gunman in the Porte de Vincennes siege, in which he killed four hostages.
• Dominique Pelicot

See also

• Communes of the Val-de-Marne department