Orléans

This article is about the French city of Orléans; for other meanings see Orleans (disambiguation).

Orléans
Location of
Country	France
Arrondissement	Orléans
Canton	Chief town of 6 cantons
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	45234 /

Orléans is a city and commune in north-central France, about 130 km (80 miles) southwest of Paris. It is the préfecture (capital) of the Loiret département and of the Centre région. Population (1999): 113,126.

It is located on Loire River where it cureves south towards the massif central.

Miscellaneous

Friedrich Schiller gave his influential 1801 play about Joan of Arc the title The Maid of Orléans.

New Orleans (originally La Nouvelle-Orléans) is named after the city of Orléans.

Births

Orléans is the patrie (birthplace) of:

• Étienne Dolet (1509-1546), scholar and printer
• Isaac Jogues (1607-1646), Jesuit missionary
• (1699-1772), jurist
• Stanislas Julien (1797-1873), orientalist
• Gustave Lanson (1857-1934), historian
• Charles Péguy (1873-1914), poet and essayist
• Raoul Blanchard (1877-1965), geographer
• Jean Zay (1904-1944), jurist and politician

Twin cities

The city is twinned with:

• Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
• Treviso, Italy
• Münster, Germany
• Kristiansand, Norway
• Wichita, Kansas, United States
• Tarragona, Spain
• Saint-Flour, France
• Utsunomiya, Japan
• Lugoj, Romania
• Kraków, Poland
• Parakou, Benin

Orléans in September 1428, the time of the Siege of Orléans.

It is a great city and sounds awesome. In 1429, Joan of Arc broke a long siege of the city, by English. many protestants killed here in St. Bartholomew's Dany massacre (1572). Orleans was badly damaged in World War Two. One popular sigts is the Cathedrale Sainte-croix.

See also

• Bishopric of Orléans
• Council of Orléans
• Duke of Orléans
• River Loire
• Orleanist
• New Orleans

Sources and external links

• Template:En icon Orleans guide on WikiTravel
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Template:Fr icon Orleans city official web site
• Template:En icon Visiting Orléans
• France on WorldStatesmen