Corbeil-Essonnes

Corbeil-Essonnes
The town Hall of Corbeil-Essonnes
Coat of arms
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Coordinates: 48°36′50″N 2°28′55″E / 48.6139°N 2.482°E / 48.6139; 2.482Coordinates: 48°36′50″N 2°28′55″E / 48.6139°N 2.482°E / 48.6139; 2.482
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Essonne
Arrondissement	Évry
Canton	Corbeil-Essonnes
Intercommunality	Seine-Essonne
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Jean-Pierre Bechter (UMP)
Area1	11.01 km2 (4.25 sq mi)
Population (2007)2	41,308
• Density	3,800/km2 (9,700/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	91174 /
Elevation	32–92 m (105–302 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Corbeil-Essonnes (French pronunciation: ​[kɔʁbɛj esɔn]) on the River Seine is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 28.3 km (17.6 mi) from the center of Paris.

Although neighboring Évry is the official seat of the Arrondissement of Évry, the sub-prefecture building and administration are located inside the commune of Corbeil-Essonnes.

Traces of human presence in the area date to the Palaeolithic and Neolithic ages; later it was a Gallo-Roman settlement on the main road from Paris to Sens. The name Corbeil is derived from the Latin Corbulium, from the Gaulish cor beel, meaning "holy house". Since the time of Aymon, comte de Corbeil (died 957), to the 12th century it was the chief town of a powerful county, which passed to Mauger, son of Richard I of Normandy.

William de Corbeil (died 1136) became archbishop of Canterbury, but nothing is known for certain about his parentage. The Gothic church was built in the tenth century and rebuilt in the fifteenth century. Before the expulsion of the Jews Corbeil had a flourishing Jewish community, which numbered thirteenth-century scholars Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil and Perez ben Elijah. Peter of Corbeil (died 1222) was the teacher of Lotario de' Conti, who became pope as Innocent III.