Samois-sur-Seine
Commune in Île-de-France, France
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Samois-sur-Seine (French pronunciation: [samwa syʁ sɛn] ⓘ, lit. 'Samois on Seine') is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located near Fontainebleau.
Samois-sur-Seine | |
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The River Seine in Samois-sur-Seine | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of Samois-sur-Seine | |
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| Coordinates: 48°27′10″N 2°45′02″E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Seine-et-Marne |
| Arrondissement | Fontainebleau |
| Canton | Fontainebleau |
| Intercommunality | CA Pays de Fontainebleau |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Michel Chariau[1] |
Area 1 | 6.33 km2 (2.44 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 2,126 |
| • Density | 336/km2 (870/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 77441 /77920 |
| Elevation | 41–115 m (135–377 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Culture
It is famous for being the town to which Django Reinhardt retired, and hosts an annual jazz festival in his honor. It was also the home to Reverchon Industries, a major global bumper car and other amusement ride producer. It is the birthplace of French jazz singer Cyrille Aimée.[3] It has a lively community, with a primary school, a weekly market, a baker, a butcher, two cafés/bars, several restaurants and hotels. A bus also provides a link to the nearby town of Fontainebleau/Avon, the route of the world's first commercial trolleybus 1901–1913.
Demographics
Literary reference and namesake
The town is mentioned in the 1954 novel Story of O by Anne Desclos as the location of the fictional mansion managed by Anne-Marie, a lesbian dominatrix. In 1978, the name Samois was adopted by a lesbian-feminist BDSM organization based in San Francisco that existed from 1978 to 1983. It was the first lesbian BDSM group in the United States.[6]
See also
- Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department
- Maud Gonne – The cemetery of Samois-sur-Seine is where in 1893 the English-born Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette, and actress Maud Gonne conceived Iseult Gonne in a sex magick ritual to reincarnate the soul of her dead son, in the crypt of the child's mausoleum, next to the coffin.
