Melle, Deux-Sèvres
Melle | |
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Saint-Hilaire Church | |
Location of Melle | |
| Coordinates: 46°13′19″N 00°08′42″W / 46.22194°N 0.14500°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Department | Deux-Sèvres |
| Arrondissement | Niort |
| Canton | Melle |
| Intercommunality | Mellois-en-Poitou |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Sylvain Griffault |
Area 1 | 65.34 km2 (25.23 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | 5,790 |
| • Density | 89/km2 (230/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 79174 /79500 |
| Elevation | 57–183 m (187–600 ft) (avg. 119 m or 390 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Melle (French pronunciation: [mɛl]) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France. On 1 January 2019, the former communes Mazières-sur-Béronne, Paizay-le-Tort, Saint-Léger-de-la-Martinière and Saint-Martin-lès-Melle were merged into Melle.
It is today best known as the home town of Ségolène Royal, the 2007 Socialist candidate for the election of the Presidency of the Republic. The director Laurent Cantet was born here as well as the archaeologist Gaston Deschamps (1861–1931).