Mont-Saint-Aignan

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Coordinates: 49°27′47″N 1°05′18″E / 49.4630, 1.08833

Administration
Commune of Mont-Saint-Aignan
Location

Country	France
Region	Haute-Normandie
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Mont-Saint-Aignan (Chief town)
Mayor	Pierre Léautey (2008-2014)
Statistics
Elevation	44 m–171 m (avg. 145 m)
Land area^¹	7.94 km²
Population^² (1999)	21,265
- Density	env. 2,678/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	76451/ 76130
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Mont-Saint-Aignan is a town of Normandy in northwestern France.

1 Administration
2 History
3 Miscellaneous
4 Colleges and universities
5 External links

[edit] Administration

Mont-Saint-Aignan is a commune of the Seine-Maritime département, in the Haute-Normandie région. It belongs to the Communauté d'agglomération Rouennaise, created in 2000, and is the fifth-largest suburb of the city of Rouen. It lies directly adjacent to the north side of Rouen. In addition to its population of 21,265, there are also around 20,000 students at the University and the various Grandes Écoles.

[edit] History

The commune was created in the 19th century out of the merging of the two former parishes of Saint-Aignan (Sanctum Anianum mentioned in the 12th century) and of the Mont-aux-Malades (Monte Infirmorum around 1251 which takes its name from a hospital founded in the 12th century). Henry II built a church there dedicated to St. Thomas à Becket in 1176 in an attempt to make up for his unwitting role in the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

[edit] Miscellaneous

It was the birthplace of Jacques Anquetil (1934-1987), the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times.

It is also the birthplace of Mohamed Sissoko, the immensely talented Juventus F.C footballer, and of Tony Parker the NBA star recently married to Eva Longoria of Desperate Housewives fame.