Villiers-sur-Marne

Villiers-sur-Marne (French pronunciation: [vilje syʁ maʁn] , literally Villiers sur Marne) is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 14.8 km (9.2 mi) from the center of Paris.

Villiers-sur-Marne
Commune
The Place Rémoiville
Coat of arms
Paris and inner ring departments
Location of Villiers-sur-Marne
Villiers-sur-Marne Villiers-sur-Marne
Coordinates: 48°49′39″N 2°32′41″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-de-Marne
Arrondissement	Nogent-sur-Marne
Canton	Villiers-sur-Marne
Intercommunality	Grand Paris
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jacques-Alain Bénisti
Area 1	4.33 km2 (1.67 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	30,669
• Density	7,100/km2 (18,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	94079 /94350
Elevation	66–103 m (217–338 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The commune of Villiers-sur-Marne is part of the sector of Porte de Paris, one of the four sectors of the "new town" of Marne-la-Vallée.

History

On 7 July 1899, a part of the territory of Villiers-sur-Marne was detached and merged with a part of the territory of La Queue-en-Brie and a part of the territory of Chennevières-sur-Marne to create the commune of Le Plessis-Trévise.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 600 —     1800 718 +2.60% 1806 671 −1.12% 1821 704 +0.32% 1831 744 +0.55% 1836 700 −1.21% 1841 721 +0.59% 1846 765 +1.19% 1851 719 −1.23% 1856 853 +3.48% 1861 824 −0.69% 1866 919 +2.21% 1872 990 +1.25% 1876 1,109 +2.88% 1881 1,287 +3.02% 1886 1,493 +3.01% 1891 1,750 +3.23% 1896 2,055 +3.27%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 1,935 −1.20% 1906 2,552 +5.69% 1911 3,011 +3.36% 1921 3,827 +2.43% 1926 5,613 +7.96% 1931 6,145 +1.83% 1936 7,020 +2.70% 1946 7,172 +0.21% 1954 9,205 +3.17% 1962 13,068 +4.48% 1968 15,789 +3.20% 1975 22,293 +5.05% 1982 22,022 −0.17% 1990 22,740 +0.40% 1999 26,632 +1.77% 2007 28,158 +0.70% 2012 27,737 −0.30% 2017 28,456 +0.51%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

Transport

Villiers-sur-Marne is served by Villiers-sur-Marne–Le Plessis-Trévise station on Paris RER line E.

Education

There are seven preschools and seven elementary schools.

• Preschools: J. et M. Dudragne, Théophile Gautier, Edouard Herriot, Jean Jaures, Charles Peguy, Charles Perrault, Jean Renon
• Elementary schools: Albert Camus, Léon Dauer, J. et M. Dudragne, Jules Ferry, Edouard Herriot, Jean Jaures, Jean Renon

There are two junior high schools, Collège Pierre et Marie Curie, and Collège Les Prunais.

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Villiers-sur-Marne is twinned with:

• Entroncamento, Portugal
• Friedberg, Germany

Until November 2011, it was also twinned with Bishop's Stortford in the United Kingdom, when the English town controversially cut its links with Villiers-sur-Marne, as well as Friedberg.

Notable people

• Mossi Traoré, fashion designer
• Vanessa Paradis, singer
• Hayat Boumeddiene, fugitive and suspected accomplice of her common law husband Amedy Coulibaly, the main suspect for the Montrouge shooting and the hostage-taker and gunman in the Porte de Vincennes siege, in which he killed four hostages.
• Dominique Pélicot

See also

• Communes of the Val-de-Marne department

External links

• Official website (in French)