Reuil-en-Brie

Reuil-en-Brie (French pronunciation: [ʁœj ɑ̃ bʁi] (listen), literally Reuil in Brie) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Reuil-en-Brie
The town hall in Reuil-en-Brie
Location of Reuil-en-Brie
Reuil-en-Brie
Reuil-en-Brie
Coordinates: 48°57′41″N 3°08′51″E
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentSeine-et-Marne
ArrondissementMeaux
CantonLa Ferté-sous-Jouarre
IntercommunalityCoulommiers Pays de Brie
Government
  Mayor (20202026) Patrick Romanow[1]
Area
1
5.92 km2 (2.29 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2019)[2]
826
  Density140/km2 (360/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
77388 /77260
Elevation51–185 m (167–607 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The settlement grew up around the monastery founded by Rado, a mayor of the palace of Burgundy,[3] in about 630, which from his name was called Radolium.[4] In later times it was a priory of Cluny.

Population

The inhabitants are called Reuillois.

Historical population
YearPop.±%
2005862    
2006863+0.1%
2007865+0.2%
2008858−0.8%
2009850−0.9%
2010842−0.9%
2011837−0.6%
2012832−0.6%
2013829−0.4%
2014825−0.5%
2015822−0.4%
2016828+0.7%

See also

References

  1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. "Populations légales 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2021.
  3. Identified as "Rado (who, like Audoin, spent much of his career as court referendary), [and] was the founder of yet another monastery, 'Radolium,' at Reuil-en-Brie" (Barbara H. Rosenwein, Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe 1999:62 and notes).
  4. quod ex suo nomine Radolium vocavit (Life of St. Agile, ca 684–690 (Acta Sanctorum, August VI:582), noted in Pierre-Henri Billy, Patrociny settlement names in France).


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