Chailly-en-Bière

Chailly-en-Bière (French: [ʃaji ɑ̃ bjɛʁ] (listen)) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Chailly-en-Bière
Commune
The town hall in Chailly-en-Bière
Coat of arms
Motto(s):  La main à l’œuvre (French: Time to work)
Location of Chailly-en-Bière
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Coordinates: 48°28′05″N 2°36′28″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-et-Marne
Arrondissement	Fontainebleau
Canton	Fontainebleau
Intercommunality	CA Pays de Fontainebleau
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Alain Thiery
Area ^1	13.08 km^2 (5.05 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	2,037
• Density	160/km^2 (400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	77069 /77930
Elevation	76–93 m (249–305 ft)
Website
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Painters Claude Monet and Frédéric Bazille spent time there together in 1865, and Bazille painted Monet in his work The Improvised Field Hospital.[2]

Demographics

The inhabitants are called Chaillotins.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Manning, Mary (2013-03-01). "Monet's Vulnerable Masculinity in Frédéric Bazille's The Improvised Field Hospital". The Journal of Men's Studies. 21 (2): 127–134. doi:10.3149/jms.2102.127. ISSN 1060-8265.

External links

• 1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région) (in English)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)