Chennevières-sur-Marne

The Church of St. Peter (French: église Saint-Pierre) is a Roman Catholic church in Chennevières-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France. It is partly listed as a Class Historic Monument.

Fort de Champigny was built following the Franco-Prussian War to defend Paris. Located to the southeast of Paris in Chennevières-sur-Marne, the fort was part of an outer ring of fortifications built in response to improvements in the range and effectiveness of artillery since the construction of the Thiers fortifications of the 1840s. It was built in accordance with improved principles of fortification developed for the Séré de Rivières system. The Fort de Champigny was built between 1878 and 1880 on an area of eight hectares at a location that had been used by the Prussians to bombard Paris in the 1870 war. The site controlled movement on the Paris-Troyes railway line at Champigny-sur-Marne. The four-sided fort is surrounded by a ditch and a counterscarp. The fort encloses a paved court surrounded by quarters for 388 men. Water was supplied by cisterns. The fort was initially armed with 34 guns.The fort was modernized in 1911, with additional fortifications in concrete, including two observation turrets in the fort's caponiers with machine guns. In 1914 the fort contained no more than ten guns on the rampart and ten on the caponiers. During the First World War the fort fired on the Plateau d'Avron with ten guns of 12 and 15 cm caliber. In 1939 and 1940 the fort was used for anti-aircraft artillery. The fort's caserne was burned in July 1944.The Fort de Champigny was taken out of military service in 1965. It was placed on the Supplemental Inventory of the Monuments Historiques in 1979. It has been under restoration since 1984, and is to serve as a youth center.

Ormesson-sur-Marne (French pronunciation: [ɔʁmɛsɔ̃ syʁ maʁn] (listen), literally Ormesson on Marne) is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 16.1 km (10.0 mi) from the center of Paris.

The canton of Champigny-sur-Marne-2 is an administrative division of the Val-de-Marne department, Île-de-France region, northern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Champigny-sur-Marne.It consists of the following communes: Champigny-sur-Marne (partly) Chennevières-sur-Marne

La Varenne–Chennevières is a French railway station in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, in Val-de-Marne département.

Noiseau (French pronunciation: [nwazo] (listen)) is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 16.8 km (10.4 mi) from the center of Paris.

Champigny station is a railway station in the commune of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, near the town Champigny-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France. Champigny is on the A2 branch of the RER A with eastbound trains to Boissy-Saint-Léger and westbound trains to Saint-Germain-en-Laye. It is situated on the Grande Ceinture line.

Champigny-sur-Marne (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃piɲi syʁ maʁn] (listen), literally Champigny on Marne) is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 12.5 km (7.8 mi) from the centre of Paris.

The Battle of Villiers, also called the Battle of Champigny, was the largest of the French sorties from besieged Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.

Villiers-sur-Marne–Le Plessis-Trévise, more commonly known as Villiers-sur-Marne, is a French railway station in Villiers-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne department. The station is at kilometric point 20.741 of the Paris-Est–Mulhouse-Ville railway; it is nearby the town of Le Plessis-Trévise hence its name. It is served by RER E.

Villiers–Champigny–Bry station is an upcoming underground station on Line 15 of the Paris Métro. It is part of the Grand Paris Express project. The station will serve the neighboring towns of Villiers-sur-Marne, Champigny-sur-Marne and Bry-sur-Marne. In the future, additional platforms are expected to be built to serve the RER E and Transilien Line P.

The Château de Sucy-en-Brie is a French château located at 1 Avenue Georges Pompidou in the commune of Sucy-en-Brie (current département of Val-de-Marne). It is also known as the Château Lambert (after its first owner, Nicolas Lambert, Sieur de Thorigny) and Château de Berc (after its last owner). The château was constructed beginning in 1660, to designs of the French architect François Le Vau. Today it is owned by the commune of Sucy-en-Brie and is used as a conservatory of music. The château is typical of classical French château design, consisting of a corps-de-logis flanked by two pavilions. Built in cut stone, it has a ground floor and a main floor, topped with an attic storey under a mansard roof covered with slate. It has been classified as a monument historique since 18 July 1975.