Chelles

• Name — Chelles • Commune Status — Commune • Image Coat Of Arms — Blason ville fr Chelles (Seine-et-Marne).svg • Adjustable Map — Chelles-en-IdF.png • Map Caption — Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs • Insee — 77108 • Postal Code — 77500 • Arrondissement — Torcy • Canton — Chelles • Mayor — Brice Rabaste • Term — 2020–2026 • Intercommunality — CA Paris - Vallée de la Marne • Elevation Min M — 36 • Elevation Max M — 106 • Area Km2 — 16.3 • Population — population_total • Population Date — population_as_of • Population Footnotes — population_footnotes Chelles (LL- (fra)-Persepha-Chelles.wav) is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region 18 km from the center of Paris.

• Illustration — The Hôtel de Ville Paleolithic artifacts were discovered by chance at Chelles by the pioneering nineteenth-century anthropologist Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821–1898); he named the corresponding cultural stage of the Paleolithic after the commune: «Chellean» or «Chellian», nowadays known as «Oldowan». At the Merovingian villa of Calae the abbey of Notre-Dame-des-Chelles was founded by Balthild, a seventh-century queen of the Franks. It was largely demolished at the time of the French Revolution. The Hôtel de Ville was acquired by the commune in 1937.

There are two main streets in Chelles, Avenue Foch and Avenue de la Résistance.

The inhabitants are called Chellois in French.

Chelles is served by Chelles–Gournay station on Paris RER line and on the Transilien Paris-Est suburban rail line.

the commune has 13,000 students in 46 public and private schools. The commune includes 19 public preschools and 16 public elementary schools. There are also: • Four public junior high schools: Collège Beau soleil, Collège Corot, Collège de l'Europe, Collège Pierre Weczerka and Collège Simone Veil - Beau Soleil and de l'Europe have Enseignement Général Professionnel Adapté (S.E.G.P.A) programmes • Three public senior high schools/sixth-form colleges, Lycée Gaston Bachelard, Lycée Professionnel Louis Lumière, and Lycée Jehan de Chelles • One private school - Institution Gasnier Guy, with private preschool and elementary school (Gasnier Guy / Ste Bathilde), junior high school (Collège Gasnier Guy), and senior high school (Lycée Gasnier Guy) divisions Chelles includes a library, Bibliothèque Olympe de Gouges, and a media centre, Médiathèque Jean-Pierre Vernant.

The commune includes the Musée Alfred-Bonno. There is also a public swimming pool, and a public skate park which opened in 1999. Chelles is twinned with the city of Lindau, Germany.

• Illustration — Parc Emile Fouchard • Illustration — Île Refuge, in the Marne river, is part of the Local Nature Reserve of the islands of Chelles • Illustration — Chelles-Gournay train station • Illustration — Where Roi Chilpéric was assassinated • Illustration — Georges Brassens Chelles Library • Illustration — Saint-André Church and Cemetery • Illustration — Curie nursery • Illustration — Avenue de la Résistance