Milly-la-Forêt

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Administration
Commune of Milly-la-Forêt
Location

Coordinates	48°24′12″N, 02°28′00″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Essonne
Arrondissement	Évry
Canton	Milly-la-Forêt
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de la Vallée de l'École
Mayor	François Orcel (2001-2008)
Statistics
Land area¹	33.80 km²
Population² (1999)	4,640
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	91405/ 91490
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Milly-la-Forêt is a town and commune of about 5,000 inhabitants (Milliaçois), in the Essonne département, in France.

1 Geology
2 History
3 The village
4 Economy
5 Culture
6 Twinning
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Geology

The Forest of Fontainebleau in the western end of which Milly-la-Forêt lies, is composed of the Oligocene Fontainebleau sands, which are a marine deposit, laid down in an intertidal zone.

[edit] History

Milly-la-Forêt is the probable birthplace of Wulfram of Sens, Saint Wulfram; in about 640.

[edit] The village

Milly contains several facilities: such as the Collège Jean Rostand, the Conservatoire des Deux Vallées, a gymnasium and sports ground complex, a multimedia library, a swimming pool, a bus station, dealers in craft products and so on. There is a market every Thursday in the very impressive late medieval market hall. The yearly calendar includes attic-clearing sales; at the opening of the summer holiday period, the town celebrates la Saint-Pierre, a fair is organised and there are several fairground rides and other attractions, as well as cultural stands for the sale of specialist food and craft products.

[edit] Economy

Milly produces many culinary and medicinal herbs. The firm of Daregal is a world leader and began in 1887 under the leadership of the Darbonne family who still run the enterprise.
The national conservatory of scented, medicinal, aromatic and industrial plants is situated in a former farm.

[edit] Culture

Christian Dior and Jean Cocteau have made their homes here. Cocteau died in 1963.
Towards the end of the 1950s Jean Cocteau decorated the chapelle Saint-Blaise, which dates from the twelfth century. His theme was those medicinal and culinary herbs on which the renown of Milly rests. He is now buried in the chapel.

Jean Tinguely assisted by Niki de Saint Phalle produced le Cyclop.

[edit] Twinning

Milly-la-Forêt is twinned with the German town of Morsbach, situated in the valley of the Sieg to the east of Cologne and with Forest Row in East Sussex, England.

[edit] References

The French Wikipedia article
Dercourt, J. Géologie et Géodynamique de la France Outre-mer et Européenne 3rd edition (2002) ISBN 2-10-006459-2
Anon Carte géologique de la France à l'échelle du millionème 6th edition (2003) ISBN 2-7159-2158-6