Cessy
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| Cessy | ||
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Commune | ||
 Town hall | ||
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  Cessy Location within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region  Cessy | ||
Coordinates: 46°19′09″N 6°04′12″E / 46.3192°N 6.07°E / 46.3192; 6.07Coordinates: 46°19′09″N 6°04′12″E / 46.3192°N 6.07°E / 46.3192; 6.07 | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Ain | |
| Arrondissement | Gex | |
| Canton | Gex | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal} (2008–2014) | Christophe Bouvier | |
| Area1 | 6.39 km2 (2.47 sq mi) | |
| Population (2012)2 | 4,342 | |
| • Density | 680/km2 (1,800/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) | |
INSEE/Postal code | 01071 /01170 | |
| Elevation | 496–583 m (1,627–1,913 ft) (avg. 526 m or 1,726 ft) | |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | ||
Cessy is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. The area was first inhabited by two farming families in the eleventh century, and as the town has grown its agricultural heritage has remained a significant feature, with the populated area surrounded by a vast expanse of fields and an annual agricultural festival.
Contents
1 Population
2 Compact Muon Solenoid
3 Personalities
4 See also
5 References
Population
| Historical population | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1793 | 787 | — |
| 1800 | 805 | +2.3% |
| 1806 | 853 | +6.0% |
| 1821 | 883 | +3.5% |
| 1831 | 980 | +11.0% |
| 1836 | 523 | −46.6% |
| 1841 | 533 | +1.9% |
| 1846 | 527 | −1.1% |
| 1851 | 559 | +6.1% |
| 1856 | 565 | +1.1% |
| 1861 | 526 | −6.9% |
| 1866 | 501 | −4.8% |
| 1872 | 435 | −13.2% |
| 1876 | 435 | +0.0% |
| 1881 | 485 | +11.5% |
| 1886 | 424 | −12.6% |
| 1891 | 424 | +0.0% |
| 1896 | 445 | +5.0% |
| 1901 | 452 | +1.6% |
| 1906 | 422 | −6.6% |
| 1911 | 427 | +1.2% |
| 1921 | 408 | −4.4% |
| 1926 | 426 | +4.4% |
| 1931 | 427 | +0.2% |
| 1936 | 403 | −5.6% |
| 1946 | 384 | −4.7% |
| 1954 | 387 | +0.8% |
| 1962 | 423 | +9.3% |
| 1968 | 509 | +20.3% |
| 1975 | 770 | +51.3% |
| 1982 | 1,068 | +38.7% |
| 1990 | 1,763 | +65.1% |
| 1999 | 2,283 | +29.5% |
| 2008 | 3,660 | +60.3% |
| 2012 | 4,342 | +18.6% |
Compact Muon Solenoid
One of the primary points of interest in the quiet community of Cessy, France
is the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, located 100 meters below ground
at a site on the south-eastern edge of the village. CMS is a high-energy particle physics experiment which observes the
result of high energy proton-proton collisions of the CERN laboratory's Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. [1]
Personalities
Tim Berners-Lee lived on Rue de la Mairie in Cessy when he, with Robert Cailliau, invented the World Wide Web.
See also
- Communes of the Ain department
- Compact Muon Solenoid
References
- INSEE
^ CMS home page
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