Chelles (French pronunciation: [ʃɛl] (listen)) is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region 18 km (11 mi) from the center of Paris.

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Chelles
Commune
Île Refuge, in the Marne river in Chelles
Coat of arms
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Location of Chelles
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Coordinates: 48°53′00″N 2°36′00″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-et-Marne
Arrondissement	Torcy
Canton	Chelles
Intercommunality	CA Paris - Vallée de la Marne
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Brice Rabaste[1]
Area 1	16.3 km2 (6.3 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[2]	55,154
• Density	3,400/km2 (8,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	77108 /77500
Elevation	36–106 m (118–348 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

History

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.

Geography

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

Demographics

The inhabitants are called Chellois.

Transport

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

Education

As of 2016^[update] the commune has 13,000 students in 46 public and private schools.[5] The commune includes 19 public preschools and 16 public elementary schools.[6]

There are also:

• Four public junior high schools: Collège Beau soleil, Collège Corot, Collège de l’Europe, and Collège Weczerka - Beau Soleil and de l'Europe have Enseignement Général Professionnel Adapté (S.E.G.P.A) programmes[7]
• Three public senior high schools/sixth-form colleges, Lycée Gaston Bachelard, Lycée Professionnel Louis Lumière, and Lycée Jehan de Chelles[8]
• One private school - Institution Gasnier Guy, with private preschool and elementary school (Gasnier Guy / Ste Bathilde), junior high school (Collège Gasnier Guy),[7] and senior high school (Lycée Gasnier Guy) divisions[8]

Chelles includes a library, Bibliothèque Olympe de Gouges, and a media centre, Médiathèque Jean-Pierre Vernant.[9]

Culture and recreation

The commune includes the Musée Alfred-Bonno.[10]

There is also a public swimming pool,[11] and a public skate park which opened in 1999.[12]

Chelles is town twinned with the city of Lindau (Germany)

Gallery

• 
  Parc Emile Fouchard
• 
  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

See also

• Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chelles, Seine-et-Marne.

• Official website (in French)
• 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)