Chamarande

Chamarande is a commune of Essonne department in the southern suburbs of Paris.

Chamarande
Commune
The château of Chamarande
Coat of arms
Location of Chamarande
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Coordinates: 48°30′48″N 2°13′03″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Essonne
Arrondissement	Étampes
Canton	Dourdan
Intercommunality	Entre Juine et Renarde
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Marie-Hélène Jolivet-Béal
Area ^1	5.74 km^2 (2.22 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	1,147
• Density	200/km^2 (520/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	91132 /91730
Elevation	62–155 m (203–509 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Inhabitants of Chamarande are known as Chamarandais.

History

Initially, this village was named Bonnes. In 1685, d'Ornaison family, the owner of the village and its château, gained permission from the French king to change the name to Chamarande. A later owner, the Duc de Persigny, was Minister of the Interior under Napoléon III and a financial backer of the building of the Paris-Orléans rail station in the village, today an RER C station.

Geography

The Juine forms the commune's eastern border.

See also

• Communes of the Essonne department

References

• Mayors of Essonne Association (in French)

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

External links

• The Château de Chamarande on the French Wikipedia (in French)
• Official website of Chamarande (in French)
• Mérimée database - Cultural heritage (in French)
• Land use (IAURIF) (in English)