Milly-la-Forêt

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Coordinates: 48°24′18″N 2°28′04″E / 48.4050, 2.46778

Commune of Milly-la-Forêt
Location
Milly-la-Forêt (France)
Milly-la-Forêt
Administration
Country France
Region Île-de-France
Department Essonne
Arrondissement Évry
Canton Milly-la-Forêt (chief town)
Intercommunality CC de la Vallée de l'École
Mayor François Orcel
(2008-2014)
Statistics
Elevation 60 m–135 m
Land area¹ 33.80 km²
Population²
(1999)		 4,601
 - Density 136/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 91405/ 91490
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.
France

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

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[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

[edit] External links

All these links are in French (except for the second link which offers English, Spanish, German and French).


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