Marne (river)
| Marne La Marne (French) | |
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 The Marne at Dormans, showing aspects of 21st century navigation: grain silos, generating traffic, a hotel barge, and recreational craft | |
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| Location | |
| Country | France |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| - location | Langres Plateau, Haute-Marne |
| Mouth | Seine |
| - location | Charenton-le-Pont |
| - coordinates | 48°48′57″N 2°24′40″E / 48.81583°N 2.41111°E |
| Length | 514 km (319 mi) |
| Basin size | 12,800 km2 (4,900 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| - average | 100 m3/s (3,500 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Seine→ English Channel |
The Marne is a river in France. It is a right tributary of the Seine in the area east and southeast of Paris. Four departments are named after it: Haute-Marne, Marne, Seine-et-Marne and Val-de-Marne.
The Marne is famous as the place of two battles during the First World War, the first in 1914 and the second in 1918.
Geography
The Marne river has a length of 513.9 km (319.3 mi),[1] one of the longest in France, and a drainage basin with an area of 12,660 km2 (4,888 sq mi).[2]
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is 108 m3/s (3,800 cu ft/s) at Gournay-sur-Marne in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, for a period of 44 years.[2]
Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Gournay-sur-Marne
Course
The source of the Marne river is in the Plateau de Langres, in the commune of Balesmes-sur-Marne, at an altitude of about 420 m (1,378 ft), in the Haute-Marne department.[3] It flows generally to the north then turns to the west between Saint-Dizier and Châlons-en-Champagne.
The Marne river flows through 3 regions, 7 departments and 218 communes. It flows through the following communes, among others:[1]
- Grand Est region
- Haute-Marne : Langres, Chaumont, Saint-Dizier
- Marne : Vitry le François, Châlons-en-Champagne, Épernay
- Hauts-de-France region
- Île-de-France region
- Seine-et-Marne : Meaux, Lagny-sur-Marne, Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes, Torcy, Noisiel, Vaires-sur-Marne, Chelles
- Seine-Saint-Denis : Gournay-sur-Marne, Noisy-le-Grand, Neuilly-sur-Marne, Neuilly-Plaisance
- Grand Paris
Finally, it flows into the Seine river between Charenton-le-Pont and Alfortville in the Val-de-Marne department, in the area of Paris.[4]
Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Marne river are:[1]
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Left tributaries:
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Right tributaries:
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Painters of the Marne
During the 19th and 20th centuries the Marne inspired many painters: some of them are:
- Camille Corot;
- Paul Cézanne;
- Pierre Emmanuel Damoye;
- Camille Pissarro;
- Henri Rousseau, known as "Le Douanier Rousseau";
- Albert Marquet;
- Raoul Dufy;
- André Dunoyer de Ségonzac;
- Louis Vuillermoz;
- Maurice Boitel;
- Daniel du Janerand.
Paul Cézanne, Les Bords de la Marne (1888)
Paul Cézanne, Les Rives de la Marne, (around 1888)
La Grotte de Sabinus by Nicolas-André Monsiau
By Pissarro at Chenevières
By Émile Bernard.
Gallery
Source of the Marne
The Marne in Noisiel
Dam of Noisiel on the Marne river
The Marne in Château-Thierry
Related pages
References
- 1 2 3 "La Marne (F---0100)" (in French). SANDRE - Portail national d'accès aux référentiels sur l'eau. Archived from the original on 27 May 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
- 1 2 "La Marne à Gournay-sur-Marne". Banque Hydro (in French). Ministère de l'Ecologie, du Développement Durable et de l'Energie. Archived from the original on 13 December 2017. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
- ↑ "Source de la Marne" (in French). Géoportail. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
- ↑ "Embouchure de la Marne" (in French). Géoportail. Retrieved 5 December 2016.