Nogent-sur-Seine | |
Commune Status: | Subprefecture and commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Nogent sur seine.svg |
Arrondissement: | Nogent-sur-Seine |
Canton: | Nogent-sur-Seine |
Insee: | 10268 |
Postal Code: | 10400 |
Mayor: | Estelle Bomberger-Rivot[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Nogentais |
Coordinates: | 48.4942°N 3.5033°W |
Elevation Min M: | 60 |
Elevation Max M: | 113 |
Area Km2: | 20.08 |
Nogent-sur-Seine (pronounced as /fr/) is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. The headquarters of The Soufflet Group is located here, as is the Musée Camille Claudel. The large Nogent Nuclear Power Plant is also located here.
Sculptor Camille Claudel lived in Nogent-sur-Seine with her family from 1876 to 1879.
Frédéric Moreau, the hero of Gustave Flaubert's novel Sentimental Education, is a native of Nogent-sur-Seine.
The abbey of Nogent-sur-Seine was destroyed during the French Revolution. Fragments of it were used in 1817 in making the canopy over the graves of Pierre Abélard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Nogent-sur-Seine is twinned with: