Thorigny-sur-Marne explained

Thorigny-sur-Marne
Commune Status:Commune
Adjustable Map:Map commune FR insee code 77464.png
Coordinates:48.8844°N 2.7142°W
Insee:77464
Postal Code:77400
Image Coat Of Arms:Blason Thorigny-sur-Marne.svg
Image Coat Of Arms Size:80px
Arrondissement:Torcy
Canton:Lagny-sur-Marne
Mayor:Manuel Luis Da Silva[1]
Term:2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:Marne et Gondoire
Elevation Min M:38
Elevation Max M:122
Area Km2:5.17

Thorigny-sur-Marne (in French pronounced as /tɔʁiɲi syʁ maʁn/, literally Thorigny on Marne) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Demographics

Inhabitants of Thorigny-sur-Marne are called Thorigniens.

Education

the three preschools have 376 students, and the three elementary schools have 640 students. The preschools are: Ecole Maternellle Les Cerisiers, Ecole Maternelle Clémenceau, and Ecole Maternelle Les Pointes. The elementary schools are Ecole Elémentaire Les Cerisiers, Ecole Elémentaire Gambetta, and Ecole Elémentaire Les Pointes.[2] The commune has one junior high school, Collège du Moulin à vent, and a vocational high school, Lycée Auguste Perdonnet. The area general senior high school/sixth form college, Lycée Van Dongen, is in Lagny-sur-Marne.[3]

History

In 1649, during the reign of Louis XIV, Thorigny-Sur-Marne was brutally pillaged for 12 days by the Regiment de Conti after agreeing to give them quarter.[4] Witnesses describe how they "used extraordinary violence, having beaten and ransomed the inhabitants, pillaged and burned their furnishings...cut down their fruit trees...eaten and scattered their flock."[5]

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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. "Les écoles." Thorigny-sur-Marne. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
  3. "Enseignement secondaire." Thorigny-sur-Marne. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
  4. Lynn, John A. “How War Fed War: The Tax of Violence and Contributions during the Grand Siècle.” The Journal of Modern History 65, no. 2 (1993): 286. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2124447.
  5. "Requête des habitans du bourg de Thorigny, eslection de Sens," from an order of February 10, 1650, in Peter Jonathan Berger, "Military and Financial Government in France, 1648-1661" (Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1979), p. 94.