Cessy
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  Cessy | ||
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Location within Rhône-Alpes region  Cessy | ||
| Coordinates: 46°19′09″N 6°04′12″E / 46.3192°N 6.07°ECoordinates: 46°19′09″N 6°04′12″E / 46.3192°N 6.07°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Gex | |
| Canton | Gex | |
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| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Christophe Bouvier | |
| Area1 | 6.39 km2 (2.47 sq mi) | |
| Population (2008)2 | 3,660 | |
| • Density | 570/km2 (1,500/sq mi) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 01071 / 01170 | |
| Elevation |
496–583 m (1,627–1,913 ft) (avg. 526 m or 1,726 ft) | |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | ||
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Cessy is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.
Population
| Historical population | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1793 | 787 | — |
| 1800 | 805 | +2.3% |
| 1806 | 853 | +6.0% |
| 1821 | 883 | +3.5% |
| 1831 | 980 | +11.0% |
| 1836 | 523 | −46.6% |
| 1841 | 533 | +1.9% |
| 1846 | 527 | −1.1% |
| 1851 | 559 | +6.1% |
| 1856 | 565 | +1.1% |
| 1861 | 526 | −6.9% |
| 1866 | 501 | −4.8% |
| 1872 | 435 | −13.2% |
| 1876 | 435 | +0.0% |
| 1881 | 485 | +11.5% |
| 1886 | 424 | −12.6% |
| 1891 | 424 | +0.0% |
| 1896 | 445 | +5.0% |
| 1901 | 452 | +1.6% |
| 1906 | 422 | −6.6% |
| 1911 | 427 | +1.2% |
| 1921 | 408 | −4.4% |
| 1926 | 426 | +4.4% |
| 1931 | 427 | +0.2% |
| 1936 | 403 | −5.6% |
| 1946 | 384 | −4.7% |
| 1954 | 387 | +0.8% |
| 1962 | 423 | +9.3% |
| 1968 | 509 | +20.3% |
| 1975 | 770 | +51.3% |
| 1982 | 1,068 | +38.7% |
| 1990 | 1,763 | +65.1% |
| 1999 | 2,283 | +29.5% |
| 2008 | 3,660 | +60.3% |
Compact Muon Solenoid
Main article: Compact Muon Solenoid
One of the primary points of interest in the quiet community of Cessy, France is the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, located 100 meters below ground at a site on the south-eastern edge of the village. CMS is a high-energy particle physics experiment which observes the result of high energy proton-proton collisions of the CERN laboratory's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. [1]
Personalities
Tim Berners-Lee lived on Rue de la Mairie in Cessy when he, with Robert Cailliau, invented the World Wide Web.
See also
References
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