Fère-en-Tardenois

Fère-en-Tardenois
Château of Fère
Fère-en-Tardenois
Administration
Country	France
Region	Picardy
Department	Aisne
Arrondissement	Château-Thierry
Canton	Fère-en-Tardenois
Intercommunality	Tardenois
Mayor	Jean-Paul Roseleux (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	106–225 m (348–738 ft) (avg. 125 m or 410 ft)
Land area1	20.4 km2 (7.9 sq mi)
Population2	3,285  (2008)
- Density	161 /km2 (420 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	02305/ 02130
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Fère-en-Tardenois is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France, .

Population

Historical population of Fère-en-Tardenois

Year	1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851	1856
Population	1852	1796	1806	2105	2313	2354	2461	2410	2556	2293

Year	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896	1901	1906
Population	2497	2393	2218	2367	2322	2397	2265	2391	2508	2690

Year	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954	1962	1968	1975
Population	2548	2332	2476	2377	2169	2140	2250	2419	2730	3012

Year	1982	1990	1999	2008
Population	3246	3168	3356	3285

Personalities

It was the birthplace of Camille Claudel (1864–1943), sculptor and graphic artist.

Sights

Outside the village is the 13th century Château of Fère-en-Tardenois, founded by the Counts of Dreux. Notable for its later Renaissance bridge.

The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial lies one and a half miles east of Fère-en-Tardenois. It contains the graves of 6,012 American soldiers who died while fighting in this vicinity during World War I including the poet, Joyce Kilmer and, until 1987, Eddie Slovik, a deserter and the first American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War.

See also

• Communes of the Aisne department

References

• INSEE