La Ferté-Milon

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Commune in Hauts-de-France, France

Coat of arms

Location of La Ferté-Milon

(2020–2026) Céline Le Frère^[1]Area

18.35 km² (7.08 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

2,047 • Density110/km² (290/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

02307 /02460

Elevation62–156 m (203–512 ft)
(avg. 67 m or 220 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

La Ferté-Milon (French pronunciation: [la fɛʁte milɔ̃]) is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France, northern France.

Geography

La Ferté-Milon is situated on the river Ourcq, 27 km southwest of Soissons and 30 km northeast of Meaux. La Ferté-Milon station has rail connections to Meaux and Paris.

Sights

In La Ferté-Milon stand the ruins of an unfinished castle, whose façade was 200 m long and 38 m high. The singular form of the tower walls was probably designed to resist cannons and protect the gate. The façade is preceded by a moat. On the right is a square tower of which two bare walls remain. The top of the ramparts is adorned with machicolation. Access to the town was protected by a former gate of which two towers remain.

Behind the ramparts, two 160 mm cannons from 1909 sit facing towards the valley. One is annotated in Russian with the number 5085.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,629	—
1975	1,695	+0.57%
1982	1,948	+2.01%
1990	2,208	+1.58%
1999	2,109	−0.51%
2007	2,300	+1.09%
2012	2,199	−0.89%
2017	2,085	−1.06%
Source: INSEE^[3]

Personalities

The dramatist Jean Racine (1639–1699) was born in La Ferté-Milon.^[4] He was one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France.

A statue of Racine as a child is located at the bottom of the paved Ruelle des rats. Nearby is a slate-roofed church with a square belfry with four turrets in each corner, one of which serves as a staircase.

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.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ Saintsbury, George (1911). "Racine, Jean" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). pp. 775–779.