Moret-sur-Loing
Template:Infobox French commune
Moret-sur-Loing ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}, literally Moret on Loing) is a former commune in the Seine-et-Marne department located at the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is situated along the confluence of rivers Loing and Seine. Moret–Veneux-les-Sablons station has rail connections to Montargis, Melun, Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Laroche-Migennes and Paris.
On 1 January 2015, Moret-sur-Loing and Écuelles have merged becoming one commune called Orvanne. It merged once again into the new commune called Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne on 1 January 2016.<ref>Arrêté préfectoral 29 October 2015 Template:In lang</ref>
The town was a source of inspiration for Monet, Renoir and Sisley.
DemographicsEdit
Inhabitants of Moret-sur-Loing are called Morétains.
Twin townsEdit
Moret-sur-Loing is twinned with:
- Template:Flagicon Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland
- Template:Flagicon Külsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
See alsoEdit
Famous peopleEdit
- Alfred Sisley, painter, lived and died in Moret
- Sarah Tyson Hallowell, art curator, lived and died in Moret
- Harriet Hallowell, artist, lived and died in Moret
- Eliza Pratt Greatorex (1819–1897), American artist lived and died in Moret ("Les remparts", Rue des Fossés)
- Karl Cartier, (1855–1925), French painter.
- Marina Tsvetaïeva, Russian poet
- Prudent Pohl said Zanaroff, (1885–1966) painter
- George Grey Barnard, (1863–1938), sculpteur and collector of medieval art had his atelier from 1903 to 1911 in Moret