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
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentSeine-et-Marne
ArrondissementMelun
CantonNangis
IntercommunalityCC Brie des Rivières et Châteaux
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Jacky Blondelot
Area
1
9.94 km2 (3.84 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
344
 • Density35/km2 (90/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
77426 /77720
Elevation73–113 m (240–371 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (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

Demographics
Population

Inhabitants of Saint-Méry are called Médériciens.

The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the censuses of the population carried out in the commune since 1793. From 2006, the legal populations of the communes are published annually by INSEE. The census is now based on an annual collection of information, successively covering all municipal territories over a period of five years. For municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, a census survey of the whole population is carried out every five years, while the legal populations of the intermediate years are estimated by interpolation or extrapolation.

See also

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.


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