Lorris is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Loiret

Loiret

Loiret is a department in north-central FranceThe department is named after the river Loiret, a tributary of the Loire. The Loiret is located wholly within the department.- History :...

 department in north-central France

France

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Data

• Postal code: 45260
• INSEE
  INSEE
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   code: 45187
• Population: 2,674 (1999)

• Area: 44.91 km²
• Density 59.54/km²
• Elevation:
  • lowest: 114 m
  • centre: 121 m
  • highest: 173 m

Origin

The commune name comes from the Massif de Lorris, the eastern portion of Foret d'Orléans, the Orléans forest.

Sites of interest

The area also has a market, museums, miniature golf, canoeing, tennis, and a helicentre.

Geography

Lorris is located 130 km S of Paris

Paris

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, the southermost area of the Gâtinais

Gâtinais

Gâtinais was a province of France, containing the area around the valley of the Loing, corresponding roughly to the northeastern part of the départment of Loiret, and the south of the present departments Seine-et-Marne. Under the Bourbons, the Gâtinais had already been divided between the...

, halfway from Montargis

Montargis

Montargis is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. The town is located about south of Paris and east of Orléans in the Gâtinais....

 and Sully-sur-Loire

Sully-sur-Loire

Sully-sur-Loire is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.-Castle:The château of Sully-sur-Loire dates from the end of the 14th century and is a prime example of medieval fortress. It was built at a strategic crossing of the Loire river...

 and is 60 km from Orléans

Orléans

-Prehistory and Roman:Cenabum was a Gallic stronghold, one of the principal towns of the Carnutes tribe where the Druids held their annual assembly. It was conquered and destroyed by Julius Caesar in 52 BC, then rebuilt under the Roman Empire...

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Historical population

Year	Population
1882	2,126
1990	2,620
1999	2,674

History

On 30 October 1242, the Paix de Lorris (the Peace of Lorris) was signed by Ramon VII, count de Toulouse

Toulouse

Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

 and the Kings of France, Saint Louis

Louis IX of France

Louis IX , commonly Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death. He was also styled Louis II, Count of Artois from 1226 to 1237. Born at Poissy, near Paris, he was an eighth-generation descendant of Hugh Capet, and thus a member of the House of Capet, and the son of Louis VIII and...

. Two men renewed the Treaty of Paris

Treaty of Paris (1229)

The Treaty of Paris was signed on April 12, 1229 between Raymond VII of Toulouse and Louis IX of France. Louis was still a minor and it was his mother Blanche of Castile who had been responsible for the treaty. The agreement officially ended the Albigensian Crusade in which Raymond conceded defeat...

 which they already concluded on 12 April 1229. The treaty put an end on the sufferings of the Albigeois.

Mayors of Lorris

• Louis Henri Prochasson
• Louis Lucien Naudin
• Constant Renard
• Constant Leturcq

External links

(in French)

• http://membres.lycos.fr/histoiredefrance/articles/evenementstextes/CharteLorris.htm
• http://www.paysdelorris.com
• http://www.ville-lorris.fr.