Moret-sur-Loing
Moret-sur-Loing is a former commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
On 1 January 2015, Moret-sur-Loing and Écuelles merged becoming one commune called Orvanne, which merged into the new commune Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne on 1 January 2016.
The town was a source of inspiration for Monet, Renoir and Sisley.Demographics
Inhabitants of Moret-sur-Loing are called Morétains.Moret-sur-Loing is twinned with:
- Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
- Külsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Famous people
- Alfred Sisley, painter, lived and died in Moret
- Sarah Tyson Hallowell, art curator, lived and died in Moret
- Harriet Hallowell, artist, lived and died in Moret
- Eliza Pratt Greatorex, american artist lived and died in Moret
- :fr:Karl Cartier|Karl Cartier,, french painter.
- :fr:Marina Tsveta%C3%AFeva|Marina Tsvetaïeva, russian poet
- Prudent Pohl said Zanaroff, painter
- George Grey Barnard,, sculpteur and collector of medieval art had his atelier in Moret
