Pithiviers

Pithiviers
Pithiviers
Administration
Country	France
Region	Centre
Department	Loiret
Arrondissement	Pithiviers
Canton	Pithiviers
Mayor	Philippe Pintaux (2001–2008)
Statistics
Elevation	97–130 m (318–430 ft) (avg. 120 m or 390 ft)
Land area1	6.94 km2 (2.68 sq mi)
Population2	9,242  (1999)
- Density	1,332 /km2 (3,450 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	45252/ 45300
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.

Pithiviers is a commune (municipality) in the Loiret department in north-central France. It is twinned with Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, England.

Pithiviers is the location of an infamous Second World War Nazi transit camp. Children were separated there from their parents; the adults were processed and deported to concentration camps farther away, usually Auschwitz. This was the fate of the novelist Irène Némirovsky.

Personalities

• Steve Marlet footballer with CM Aubervilliers. He was born here in 1974.
• Marie Ndiaye novelist and playwright who was born here in 1967.
• Simeon Poisson mathematician born here in 1781 and died in 1840.

See also

• Communes of the Loiret department