Reuil-en-Brie explained

Reuil-en-Brie
Commune Status:	Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:	Blason de la ville de Reuil-en-Brie (Seine-et-Marne).svg
Coordinates:	48.9614°N 3.1476°W
Insee:	77388
Postal Code:	77260
Arrondissement:	Meaux
Canton:	La Ferté-sous-Jouarre
Mayor:	Patrick Romanow^[1]
Term:	2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:	Coulommiers Pays de Brie
Elevation Min M:	51
Elevation Max M:	185
Area Km2:	5.92

Reuil-en-Brie (pronounced as /fr/, literally Reuil in Brie) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

The settlement grew up around the monastery founded by Rado, a mayor of the palace of Burgundy,^[2] in about 630, which from his name was called Radolium.^[3] In later times it was a priory of Cluny.

Population

The inhabitants are called Reuillois.

See also

• Reuil
• Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department

Notes and References

1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.
2. Identified as "Rado (who, like Audoin, spent much of his career as court referendary), [and] was the founder of yet another monastery, 'Radolium,' at Reuil-en-Brie" (Barbara H. Rosenwein, Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe 1999:62 and notes).
3. quod ex suo nomine Radolium vocavit (Life of St. Agile, ca 684–690 (Acta Sanctorum, August VI:582), noted in Pierre-Henri Billy, Patrociny settlement names in France).