Moret-sur-Loing (, literally ''Moret on
Loing
The Loing () is a long river in central France, a left tributary of the Seine.
Its source is in Sainte-Colombe-sur-Loing, in the southwestern of the department of Yonne, and it flows into the Seine in Saint-Mammès, near Moret-sur-Loing.
Its ma ...
'') is a former
commune
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in the
Seine-et-Marne
Seine-et-Marne () is a Departments of France, department in the ÃŽle-de-France Regions of France, region in Northern France. Named after the rivers Seine and Marne (river), Marne, it is the region's largest department with an area of 5,915 square ...
department
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in the
ÃŽle-de-France
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region
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in north-central
France
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. It is situated on the river
Loing
The Loing () is a long river in central France, a left tributary of the Seine.
Its source is in Sainte-Colombe-sur-Loing, in the southwestern of the department of Yonne, and it flows into the Seine in Saint-Mammès, near Moret-sur-Loing.
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, close to its confluence with the
Seine
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Moret–Veneux-les-Sablons station
Moret–Veneux-les-Sablons is a railway station in Veneux-les-Sablons and Moret-sur-Loing, Île-de-France, France. It is on the Paris–Marseille railway, and at the beginning of a branch line to Nevers and Clermont-Ferrand.
The station
The sta ...
has rail connections to Montargis, Melun, Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Laroche-Migennes and Paris.
On 1 January 2015, Moret-sur-Loing and
Écuelles merged becoming one commune called
Orvanne
Orvanne () was a short-lived commune in the department of Seine-et-Marne in north-central France. The commune was established on 1 January 2015 by merger of the former communes of Écuelles and Moret-sur-Loing. On 1 January 2016, it was merged int ...
, which merged into the new commune
Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne
Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department, in the ÃŽle-de-France region in north-central France. Moret-sur-Loing is the municipal seat. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 and consists of the former com ...
on 1 January 2016.
Arrêté préfectoral
29 October 2015
The town was a source of inspiration for Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...
, Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Re ...
and Sisley
Alfred Sisley (; ; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedicatio ...
.
Demographics
Inhabitants of Moret-sur-Loing are called ''Morétains''.
Twin towns
Moret-sur-Loing is twinned with:
* Kilkenny
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Kilken ...
, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
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* Külsheim
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Town districts (former independent municipalities)
* Külsheim
...
, Baden-Württemberg
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, Germany
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See also
* Château de Moret
The Château de Moret is a castle in the ''Communes of France, commune'' of Moret-sur-Loing in the Seine-et-Marne ''Departments of France, département'' of France.
Originally built in the 12th century, it was substantially altered in the 17th cen ...
* Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department
The following is a list of the 507 communes of the Seine-et-Marne department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):[Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley (; ; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedicatio ...]
, painter, lived and died in Moret
* Sarah Tyson Hallowell
Sarah Tyson Hallowell or Sara Tyson Hallowell (December 7, 1846 – July 19, 1924) was an American art curator in the years between the Civil War and World War I. She curated a number of major exhibitions in Chicago, arranged the loan exh ...
, art curator, lived and died in Moret
* Harriet Hallowell
Harriet Hallowell (1873–1943) was an expatriate American artist who lived in France for fifty years. She was born in Boston to a Quaker family. During World War I she remained in France and volunteered at a hospital. The hospital was near the ho ...
, artist, lived and died in Moret
* Eliza Pratt Greatorex
Eliza Pratt Greatorex (December 25, 1819 – February 9, 1897) was an Irish-born American artist who was affiliated with the Hudson River School. She is known for her landscape paintings as well as for several series of pen-and-ink drawings and ...
(1819-1897), American artist lived and died in Moret ("Les remparts", Rue des Fossés)
* Karl Cartier, (1855-1925), French painter.
* Marina Tsvetaïeva, Russian poet
* Prudent Pohl said Zanaroff, (1885-1966) painter
* George Grey Barnard
George Grey Barnard (May 24, 1863 – April 24, 1938), often written George Gray Barnard, was an American sculptor who trained in Paris. He is especially noted for his heroic sized '' Struggle of the Two Natures in Man'' at the Metropolitan Museu ...
, (1863-1938), sculpteur and collector of medieval art had his atelier from 1903-1911 in Moret
References
External links
Official site
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Former communes of Seine-et-Marne
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