Villeroy

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Villeroy

Total population

699

Elevation81 m

Land area5.71 km²

Coordinates48.98°, 2.78°

Demographic figures from INSEE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Villeroy is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is at Villeroy that the famous French poet Charles Péguy lost his life, the day before the beginning of the Battle of the Marne in the first world war. There is a monument to him there.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Lucas Digne

French footballer (born 1993)

Olivier Ledroit

French comic artist

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Artur Mabellon

French archer (1888-1961)

Jeanne Hébuterne

French painter (1898–1920)

Maud Fontenoy

French ocean rower and sailor

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Élisabeth Loisel

Association footballer

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Abderrahman Kabous

Moroccan footballer

Gustave Cabaret

French archer (1866–1918)

Véronique Genest

French actress (born 1956)

Everard des Barres

Grand Master of the Knights Templar

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André Hébuterne

French painter (1894-1992)

Daniel Ceccaldi

French actor (1927–2003)

Geoffrey Jourdren

French footballer

Léon Charles Thévenin

French telegraph engineer (1857–1926)

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Olivier N'Siabamfumu

French-Congolese footballer

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Eric Leblacher

French bicycle racer

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

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Books about Villeroy

The artist project

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · 2017

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers