Réau

Commune in Île-de-France, France
Location of Réau
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(2020–2026) Alain Auzet[1]Area
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13.32 km2 (5.14 sq mi)Population
 (2021)[2]
1,966 • Density150/km2 (380/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code
77384 /77550
Elevation82–94 m (269–308 ft)1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Réau (French pronunciation: [ʁeo] ⓘ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Ferme de Galande

Decauville railway of the sugar beet producer Arthur Brandin in Réau around 1881[3]

Around 1881, sugar beet producer Arthur Brandin invested in a Decauville railway with eight horse-drawn tipping lorries for the Ferme de Galande near Réau, 15 km east of the Decauville factory in Petit Bourg. As well as being a sugar beet farmer, he was also mayor of Réau and Republican Consul of the Canton of Brie-Comte-Robert from 1895 to 1912. The surface soil of his sugar beet fields consisted of clay in which fragments of siliceous sandstone were embedded, used for millstones and structural purposes. The subsoil was limestone, so the fields were often very muddy at harvest time until Brandin installed an innovatively designed drainage system.[4]

Demographics

The inhabitants are called Réaltais.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ Jaques Longuet: L'histoire de la famille Decauville. YouTube-Video, 4 September 2017.
  4. ^ G. Wery and E. Risler: page Irrigations et drainages: l'eau dans les améliorations agricoles, p. 106 and 409.

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  • 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)
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