Melun

Melun is a French city and commune on the river Seine, about 50 km south-southeast of Paris. It is the pr?fecture (administrative capital) of the Seine-et-Marne d?partement. Population (1999): 35,695. Its inhabitants are called melunais. Its current mayor is G?rard Millet (UMP, right of center).

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The city started on an island in the Seine and is south-southeast of Paris. What Caesar said of Melun in his commentaries testifies that it is very old, and that it was very important in its time. The Normans sacked it in 845.

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King Hugh Capet gave Melun to Bouchard, his favorite. Under the reign of 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.

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