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
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
Chailly-en-Bière
Chailly-en-Bière
Coordinates: 48°28′05″N 2°36′28″E
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentSeine-et-Marne
ArrondissementFontainebleau
CantonFontainebleau
IntercommunalityCA Pays de Fontainebleau
Government
  Mayor (20202026) Alain Thiery
Area
1
13.08 km2 (5.05 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
2,037
  Density160/km2 (400/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
77069 /77930
Elevation76–93 m (249–305 ft)
Website
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (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

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.


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