Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire

Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ sebastjɛ̃ syʁ lwaʁ], lit. 'Saint-Sébastien on Loire'; Breton: Sant-Sebastian-an-Enk) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.^[3]

Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire Sant-Sebastian-an-Enk (Breton)
Commune
Loire River
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire
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Coordinates: 47°12′29″N 1°30′05″W
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Loire-Atlantique
Arrondissement	Nantes
Canton	Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire
Intercommunality	Nantes Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Laurent Turquois[1]
Area 1	11.66 km2 (4.50 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	28,283
• Density	2,400/km2 (6,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	44190 /44230
Elevation	2–33 m (6.6–108.3 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

It is the third-largest suburb of the city of Nantes, and is adjacent to it on the southeast, across the river Loire. It has two railway stations on the line to Clisson: Saint-Sébastien-Pas-Enchantés and Saint-Sébastien-Frêne-Rond.

The territory of the commune was occupied at the earliest 3,000 years before our era.

During the Revolution, despite its proximity to Nantes, the commune sided massively against the Republic and joined the Vendée insurrection of March 1793.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 2,507 —     1800 1,353 −8.43% 1806 1,377 +0.29% 1821 1,573 +0.89% 1831 1,605 +0.20% 1841 1,886 +1.63% 1846 1,985 +1.03% 1851 2,016 +0.31% 1856 1,976 −0.40% 1861 2,066 +0.89% 1866 2,349 +2.60% 1872 2,260 −0.64% 1876 2,340 +0.87% 1881 2,315 −0.21% 1886 2,419 +0.88% 1891 2,440 +0.17% 1896 2,497 +0.46% 1901 2,498 +0.01%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 2,610 +0.88% 1911 2,740 +0.98% 1921 3,096 +1.23% 1926 3,584 +2.97% 1931 4,534 +4.81% 1936 5,113 +2.43% 1946 6,637 +2.64% 1954 8,427 +3.03% 1962 11,830 +4.33% 1968 14,159 +3.04% 1975 17,326 +2.93% 1982 17,825 +0.41% 1990 22,202 +2.78% 1999 25,223 +1.43% 2007 24,724 −0.25% 2012 25,655 +0.74% 2017 26,838 +0.91%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)[5]

Twin towns - sister cities

Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire is twinned with:^[6]

• Cernavodă, Romania
• Glinde, Germany
• Kaposvár, Hungary
• Kati, Mali
• Porthcawl, Wales

Personalities

• Héloïse Adelaïde Letissier(born 1 June 1988) (age 31), professionally known as Christine and the Queens or simply Chris, is a French singer, songwriter and producer.
• Clara Hervouet
• Giovanni Sio (born 31 March 1989), footballer
• Nates Geovannie, rugby player

See also

• Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. INSEE commune file
4. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, EHESS (in French).
5. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
6. "Villes partenaires". saintsebastien.fr (in French). Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2019.

External links

• Official website Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in French)