Saint-Méry

Saint-Méry is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Saint-Méry
Commune
The church in Saint-Méry
Location of Saint-Méry
Saint-Méry Saint-Méry
Coordinates: 48°34′41″N 2°49′37″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-et-Marne
Arrondissement	Melun
Canton	Nangis
Intercommunality	CC Brie des Rivières et Châteaux
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jacky Blondelot
Area ^1	9.94 km^2 (3.84 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	344
• Density	35/km^2 (90/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	77426 /77720
Elevation	73–113 m (240–371 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

History

Towards the end of the seventh century, Saint Mederic, abbot of Saint-Martin d'Autun, set off on a pilgrimage to the tombs of Saint Denis and Saint Germain, in Paris, in the company of a young monk named Frodulphe. The road was long because the abbot, aging and tired, had to stop often to take rest. It was thus that Mederic and Frodulphe halted at a deserted spot near Paris, where a chapel was then erected to commemorate the pilgrim abbe, whose charity, piety, and miracles had struck the people. Soon some houses came to group around the building placed under the name of Saint-Médéric said Saint-Merry, Saint-Merri or Saint-Méry.[2]

• 
  church of Saint-Méry
• 
  bridge in Saint Mery
• 
  Wash house in Saint-Méry
• 
  Saint-Méry Town Hall at 77 Church Street

Population

Inhabitants of Saint-Méry are called Médériciens.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	255	—
1975	236	−1.10%
1982	278	+2.37%
1990	302	+1.04%
1999	366	+2.16%
2007	389	+0.76%
2012	372	−0.89%
2017	344	−1.55%
Source: INSEE[3]

See also

• Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Vita S. Mederici - Jacques-Gabriel Bulliot, Essai historique de l'Abbaye de Saint-Martin d'Autun, chap. V, p. 83.
3. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

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)