Samois-sur-Seine

Samois-sur-Seine
Commune
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 km^2 (2.44 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	2,066
• Density	330/km^2 (850/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 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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.

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.

Île du Berceau, where the Django Reinhardt festival takes place

Demographics

Inhabitants of Samois-sur-Seine are called Samoisiens in French.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,373	—
1975	1,574	+1.97%
1982	1,574	+0.00%
1990	1,916	+2.49%
1999	2,236	+1.73%
2007	2,062	−1.01%
2012	2,098	+0.35%
2017	2,053	−0.43%
Source: Cassini[4] and INSEE[5]

Literary reference and namesake

The town is mentioned in the 1954 novel Story of O 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.

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. Reich, Ronni (The Star Ledger) (21 October 2012). "Cyrille Aimee wins the first Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition". nj.com True Jersey. Retrieved 22 February 2015. ...instantly recognizable sound: a soft, girlish buzz with a touch of an Edith Piaf-like quaver....Aimée honed her skills growing up in the village of Samois-sur-Seine, ... In 2007, she was named winner of the first and public prizes at the Montreux Jazz Festival Competition. ... rhythmically driven style...
4. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Samois-sur-Seine, EHESS (in French).
5. "Population en historique depuis 1968" (in French). INSEE. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
6. Jeffreys, Sheila (1993). The Lesbian Heresy. North Melbourne, Vic., Australia: Spinifex. p. 130. ISBN 1-875559-17-5.

External links

• The Django Reinhardt Jazz Festival (in French)
• Reverchon Website
• Official site (in French)
• 1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)