Nogent-sur-Marne

Sister cities

• Yverdon-les-Bains
• Siegburg
• Val Nure
• Nazaré
• Bolesławiec
• Castiglione dei Pepoli

History

Several origins of the name have been proposed: * Novigentum, "new people", i.e. prisoners brought by the Roman armies. * Nov. indicates fatty or soaked grounds. * Novientum which is the Gallic equivalent of medieval French "Villeneuve" or English "Newtown". In the Middle Ages, several castles were built. Le Château de Plaisance was built in the 13th century and hosted Charles V and Jeanne de Bourbon in 1375. The only vestige which remains is a house of the current private hospital, 30 rue de Plaisance, as well as the bottom of the enclosing wall of the gardens. Le Château de Beauté-sur-Marne, 14th century, is a royal stay. Cardinal de Richelieu destroyed it in 1626. In the 17th century, whereas the rural population was made up of a majority of vine growers, the middle-class discovered the charms of the country, and settled in Nogent. Jean-Antoine Watteau lived in Mr. Lefevre's house his last moments and died there in 1721. The construction of the two railway lines: Paris–Mulhouse and Bastille–La Varenne in the 1850s still accelerated the process. The viaduct, built by Auvergnats and Belgians was destroyed once on 15 September 1870. Italians rebuilt it; an Italian community was established there. Coming, for the majority, from the province of Piacenza, they were from the Valley of Nure or from the south of Tyrol. The Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1879 and on the edge of the town is Paris' Tropical Agronomy Garden. Isolated since 1854 by the construction of a viaduct for the Paris–Mulhouse line, the commune of Le Perreux sur Marne was born after a fight of more than 10 years in 1887. On 28 February 1887, more than half of the territory of Nogent-sur-Marne was detached and became the commune of Le Perreux-sur-Marne. In 1929, the commune of Nogent-sur-Marne lost…

Most-observed species

• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  18,649
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  18,291
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  17,843
• Rose-ringed Parakeet

  Psittacula krameri (Scopoli, 1769) · Aves
  15,171
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  14,942
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  14,519
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  14,192
• Rock Pigeon

  Columba livia J.F.Gmelin, 1789 · Aves
  13,350