Seuilly

Seuilly
Commune
The Rabelais Museum, La Devinière House
Seuilly Seuilly
Coordinates: 47°08′05″N 0°10′21″E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Chinon
Canton	Chinon
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Thierry Deguingand
Area 1	15.73 km2 (6.07 sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	37248 /37500
Elevation	35–111 m (115–364 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Seuilly (French pronunciation: [sœji] (listen)) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 541 —     1800 546 +0.9% 1806 506 −7.3% 1821 559 +10.5% 1831 612 +9.5% 1836 619 +1.1% 1841 597 −3.6% 1846 601 +0.7% 1851 568 −5.5% 1856 565 −0.5% 1861 556 −1.6% 1866 515 −7.4% 1872 520 +1.0% 1876 466 −10.4% 1881 465 −0.2% 1886 458 −1.5% 1891 457 −0.2% 1896 470 +2.8%

Year Pop. ±% 1901 455 −3.2% 1906 445 −2.2% 1911 425 −4.5% 1921 370 −12.9% 1926 384 +3.8% 1931 370 −3.6% 1936 362 −2.2% 1946 487 +34.5% 1954 382 −21.6% 1962 404 +5.8% 1968 358 −11.4% 1975 331 −7.5% 1982 338 +2.1% 1990 366 +8.3% 1999 369 +0.8% 2006 370 +0.3% 2009 384 +3.8%

Sights

La Devinière, in Seuilly, houses a museum dedicated to François Rabelais, and is claimed to be the writer's birthplace.

See also

• Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department