Coulommiers | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne).svg |
Coordinates: | 48.8247°N 3.1068°W |
Insee: | 77131 |
Postal Code: | 77120 |
Arrondissement: | Meaux |
Canton: | Coulommiers |
Mayor: | Laurence Picard[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CA Coulommiers Pays de Brie |
Elevation Min M: | 66 |
Elevation Max M: | 156 |
Area Km2: | 10.93 |
Coulommiers (in French pronounced as /kulɔmje/) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.
It is also the name of a cheese of the Brie family produced around that city. Coulommiers station has rail connections to Tournan-en-Brie and Paris.
The town has a statue to Commandant Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire who, in 1792, killed himself rather than surrender Verdun to the Prussians.
Inhabitants of Coulommiers are called Columériens.
Coulommiers was twinned with Leighton Buzzard in 1958[2] and with Titisee-Neustadt in 1971. The twinning was renewed in 1982.
Coulommiers was selected to be the first town in France to go fully digital for its terrestrial television, with analog switch-off in January 2009.