Chelles, Seine-et-Marne

Paleolithic artifacts were discovered by chance at Chelles by the pioneering nineteenth-century anthropologist Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821–1898); he named the corresponding cultural stage of the Paleolithic after the commune: «Chellean» or «Chellian», nowadays known as «Oldowan».

At the Merovingian villa of Calae the abbey of Notre-Dame-des-Chelles was founded by Balthild, a seventh-century queen of the Franks. It was largely demolished at the time of the French Revolution.

The Hôtel de Ville was acquired by the commune in 1937.^[3]

There are two main streets in Chelles, Avenue Foch and Avenue de la Résistance.

The inhabitants are called Chellois in French.

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Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,110 —     1800 865 −3.50% 1806 1,241 +6.20% 1821 1,179 −0.34% 1831 1,413 +1.83% 1836 1,557 +1.96% 1841 1,632 +0.95% 1846 1,700 +0.82% 1851 1,700 +0.00% 1856 1,770 +0.81% 1861 1,914 +1.58% 1866 2,165 +2.50% 1872 2,150 −0.12% 1876 2,500 +3.84% 1881 2,702 +1.57% 1886 3,001 +2.12% 1891 2,911 −0.61% 1896 3,414 +3.24% 1901 3,952 +2.97%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 4,683 +3.45% 1911 5,367 +2.76% 1921 6,805 +2.40% 1926 9,716 +7.38% 1931 13,158 +6.25% 1936 14,658 +2.18% 1946 14,378 −0.19% 1954 19,539 +3.91% 1962 28,382 +4.78% 1968 33,281 +2.69% 1975 36,516 +1.33% 1982 41,838 +1.96% 1990 45,365 +1.02% 1999 45,399 +0.01% 2007 51,035 +1.47% 2012 53,247 +0.85% 2017 54,917 +0.62% 2023 54,620 −0.09%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968-2023)[5]

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Chelles is served by Chelles–Gournay station on Paris RER line and on the Transilien Paris-Est suburban rail line .

As of 2016^[update] the commune has 13,000 students in 46 public and private schools.^[6] The commune includes 19 public preschools and 16 public elementary schools.^[7]

There are also:

• Four public junior high schools: Collège Beau soleil, Collège Corot, Collège de l'Europe, Collège Pierre Weczerka and Collège Simone Veil - Beau Soleil and de l'Europe have Enseignement Général Professionnel Adapté (S.E.G.P.A) programmes^[8]
• Three public senior high schools/sixth-form colleges, Lycée Gaston Bachelard, Lycée Professionnel Louis Lumière, and Lycée Jehan de Chelles^[9]
• One private school - Institution Gasnier Guy, with private preschool and elementary school (Gasnier Guy / Ste Bathilde), junior high school (Collège Gasnier Guy),^[8] and senior high school (Lycée Gasnier Guy) divisions^[9]

Chelles includes a library, Bibliothèque Olympe de Gouges, and a media centre, Médiathèque Jean-Pierre Vernant.^[10]

The commune includes the Musée Alfred-Bonno.^[11]

There is also a public swimming pool,^[12] and a public skate park which opened in 1999.^[13]

Chelles is twinned with the city of Lindau, Germany.

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  Parc Emile Fouchard
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  Île Refuge, in the Marne river, is part of the Local Nature Reserve of the islands of Chelles

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  Chelles-Gournay train station
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  Where Roi Chilpéric was assassinated
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  Georges Brassens Chelles Library
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  Saint-André Church and Cemetery
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  Curie nursery
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  Avenue de la Résistance

• Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department