Seuilly

Seuilly
The Rabelais Museum, La Devinière House
Seuilly
Location within Centre region Seuilly
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Chinon
Canton	Chinon
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jacques Aupic
Area1	15.73 km2 (6.07 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	384
• Density	24/km2 (63/sq mi)
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. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Seuilly is a commune bob 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%
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

References

• INSEE commune file