Les Boullereaux-Champigny: history and sights
Served by: RER E.
Did you know?
Named after the Boullereaux district in Champigny-sur-Marne, where a 6,000 m² ancient cemetery used from the Gauls to the Merovingian kings was discovered in the 19th century.
Anecdote
From 30 November to 2 December 1870, the Battle of Champigny, a failed attempt to break out of the siege of Paris, earned the town the nickname 'Champigny-la-Bataille'.
Around Les Boullereaux-Champigny
- Ossuaire de la bataille de 1870, 1500 m away — Ossuary of the Battle of Champigny, rue du Monument (check access).
- Cité-jardin de Champigny-sur-Marne, 1500 m away — A garden city built from 1928, with 142 homes.
- Château de Cœuilly, 4100 m away — A 17th-century château whose fortified park stopped the French assaults in 1870.