Nogent-sur-Seine () is a commune in the Aube

department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

in north-central France. The headquarters of

The Soufflet Group The Soufflet Group is a French family-owned business based on collecting and adding value to agricultural raw materials. The Group is a major player in supplying arable farmers, and in the vine and wine sector. It advises and supplies farmers ...

is located here, as is the

Musée Camille Claudel The Musée Camille Claudel is a French national museum which honors and exhibits the art of sculptor Camille Claudel. The museum displays approximately half of Claudel's existing artwork. The Claudel museum was opened in 2017 in her teenage home to ...

. The large Nogent Nuclear Power Plant is located here.

Population

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Personalities

Sculptor Camille Claudel lived in Nogent-sur-Seine with her family from 1876 to 1879. Frédéric Moreau, the hero of Gustave Flaubert's novel '' Sentimental Education,'' is a native of Nogent-sur-Seine. The abbey of Nogent-sur-Seine was destroyed during the French Revolution. Fragments of it were used in 1817 in making the canopy over the graves of Pierre Abélard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

International relations

Nogent-sur-Seine is twinned with: * Rielasingen-Worblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - since 1973 *

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, Senegal - 1987

References

External links

Official town website

Dubois-Boucher Museum in Nogent-sur-Seine
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Population

Personalities

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