Chailly-en-Bière

Commune in Île-de-France, France

Coat of arms

Motto:

La main à l’œuvre (French: Time to work)

Location of Chailly-en-Bière

(2020–2026) Alain Thiery^[1]Area

13.08 km² (5.05 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

2,118 • Density160/km² (420/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

77069 /77930

Elevation76–93 m (249–305 ft)Website[1]¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Chailly-en-Bière (French pronunciation: [ʃaji ɑ̃ bjɛʁ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Painters Claude Monet and Frédéric Bazille spent time there together in 1865, and Bazille painted Monet in his work The Improvised Field Hospital.^[3]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,040	—
1975	1,315	+3.41%
1982	1,757	+4.23%
1990	2,029	+1.82%
1999	2,129	+0.54%
2007	2,144	+0.09%
2012	1,951	−1.87%
2017	2,037	+0.87%
Source: INSEE^[4]

The inhabitants are called Chaillotins in French.

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Manning, Mary (2013-03-01). "Monet's Vulnerable Masculinity in Frédéric Bazille's The Improvised Field Hospital". The Journal of Men's Studies. 21 (2): 127–134. doi:10.3149/jms.2102.127. ISSN 1060-8265. S2CID 147641494.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chailly-en-Bière.

1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région) (in English)
Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)