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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Melun (French pronunciation: , local pronunciation: ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is a south-eastern suburb of Paris, located 41.4 km (25.7 miles) from the center of Paris. Melun is the prefecture of the Seine-et-Marne, and the seat of an arrondissement. Its inhabitants are called Melunais.
Meledunum began as a Gaulish town; Caesar noted Melun as "a town of the Senones, situated on an island in the Seine"; at the island there was a wooden bridge, which his men repaired.[1] Roman Meledunum was a mutatio where fresh horses were kept available for official couriers on the Roman road south-southeast of Paris, where it forded the Seine.[2]
The Normans sacked it in 845. The castle of Melun became a royal residence of the Capetian kings. Hugh Capet (See also: House of Capet) gave Melun to Bouchard, his favorite. In the reign of Hugh's son, Robert II of France, Eudes, the count of Champagne, bought the city, and the king took it back for the viscount in 999. Le Chatelain and his wife, who had sold the city, were hanged. Robert died there in July 1031.
The early viscounts of Melun were listed by 17th and 18th century genealogists, notably Père Anselme. Based on closer reading of the original documents, Adolphe Duchalais constructed this list of viscounts in 1844:[3]
The title eventually became an honorary peerage. Such viscounts include Honoré Armand de Villars and Claude Louis Hector de Villars.
Melun is served by the Gare de Melun, which is an interchange station on Paris RER line D, on the Transilien R suburban rail line, and on several national rail lines.
The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, Melun was the original home of the Melun Diptych.
The nearby château of Vaux-le-Vicomte is considered a smaller predecessor of Palace of Versailles.
The officers' school of the French Gendarmerie is located in Melun.
Melun was the birthplace of:
A campus of the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation university) is located in Melun.
Melun is twinned with:
London, United Kingdom, France, Amsterdam, Berlin
Holy Roman Empire, Corsica, Dutch Republic, Paris, Rhône-Alpes
United Kingdom, European Union, Italy, Canada, Spain
Departments of France, Île-de-France, France, Regions of France, Aube
Socialist Party (France), Occitan language, Rhône-Alpes, Corsica, Île-de-France
European Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour, London, France
France, Belgium, Switzerland, Authority control, Disney Channel
France, Paris, Institut supérieur d'électronique et du numérique, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Centrale Graduate School
Pink Floyd, French Figure Skating Championships, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Togo, France
Grandes écoles, Electronics, Toulouse, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace