Office de Tourisme de Sézanne et sa Région

The town of Sezanne is surrounded by "mails (pronounce "my")...But where does that name come from ? Mails are flat grounds, most of the time edged with trees ; they were used to play the game of maillet (a kind of game of croquet). That is how people came to the name "mail". [read more]

The bottles of Champagne have different sizes. There are : the Beaker (18.7 cl), the Half-pint (37.5 cl , the Bottle (75 cl), the Magnum (1.5 l), the Jéroboam (3 l), the Réhoboam (4.5 l), the Malthusalem (6 l), the Salmanazar ( 9 l), the Balthasar (12 l), the Nabuchodonosor (15 l) [read more]

Claude François painted magnificent pictures telling about the life of Saint François of Assise. They are displayed at the Cloister in Sézanne... Rather surprising thing : Claude François is the true name of Frère Luc, a seventeenth century’s Recollet monk and painter. [read more]

Peat bogs are special wet areas. Those surroundings are always under water ; vegetal fragments pile up over the years and built a deposit of peat which gets thicker and thicker. Peat used to be used as fuel material. [read more]

You can admire a Picasso in the Marne while strolling on board of a fifties’ rail carriage... This machine was so called because of its special features but also because the driver stands on the left, not in the middle... A tribute to the Master’s style... [read more]

Saint Fiacre, patron saint of gardeners, was an Irish monk who came to the region of Meaux to live as an ermit. As his goodness was attracting a lot of poor people, Bishop Faron allowed him to keep the surface he would be able to surround with a ditch dug in one day with his spade. The miracle happened and the spade, by itself, surrounded a large enclosure. Saint Fiacre is represented with his monastic tonsure, with the opened gospel in his left hand and a spade in his right hand. The (...) [read more]

The Castle of Montmort is of a real interest, not only through its architecture which makes it look so incredible that it seems to be coming out of a tale, but also through the women who played a very important part in its history. Two ladies - Jeanne Des Noyers and Jeanne D’Hangest - had this castle built on the ruins of an old fortress. [read more]

The castle and its guests... The Castle of Reveillon can be proud of having welcomed Marcel Proust who was inspired by the landlord and wrote « Les plaisirs et les jours ». Among other famous guests were Alexandre Dumas Junior, Anatole France and a very unusual guest : Sarah Bernhard’s cheetah. [read more]

The water of this fountain is well-known for curing rhumatism and kidney problems. It is also said that after drinking its water, women would give birth to boys. [read more]

Some say that a Cathar sanctuary could be hidden in the depths of the Mont Aimé. Only one thing is for certain: the slaughter of the Cathars in 1239 on this setting. People spent hours looking for the secret entrance of this buried city but never found it... [read more]