Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne
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Coulommiers (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.
It is also the name of a cheese of the Brie family produced around that city. Coulommiers station has rail connections to Tournan-en-Brie and Paris.
The town has a statue to Commandant Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire who, in 1792, killed himself rather than surrender Verdun to the Prussians.[2]
Demographics
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Twin towns
Coulommiers was twinned with Leighton Buzzard in 1958[3] and with Titisee-Neustadt in 1971. The twinning was renewed in 1982.
History
Coulommiers was selected to be the first town in France to go fully digital for its terrestrial television, with analog switch-off in January 2009.
Notable people
- André Roussimoff, better known as André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor (though was billed as hailing from "Grenoble, in the French Alps)
- Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire, military officer
See also
References
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External links
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- Official website of Coulommiers
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