Title: Marne (river) Content: The Marne is a river in France. It is a right tributary of the Seine in the area east and southeast of Paris. Four departments are named after it: Haute- Marne, Marne, Seine-et-Marne and Val-de-Marne. The Marne is famous as the place of two battles during the First World War, the first in 1914 and the second in 1918. ==Geography== The Marne river has a length of , one of the longest in France, and a drainage basin with an area of . Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Gournay-sur-Marne in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, for a period of 44 years. 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It flows generally to the north then turns to the west between Saint-Dizier and Châlons-en-Champagne. The Marne river flows through 3 regions, 7 departments and 218 communes. It flows through the following communes, among others: * Grand Est region ** Haute-Marne : Langres, Chaumont, Saint-Dizier ** Marne : Vitry le François, Châlons-en-Champagne, Épernay * Hauts-de-France region ** Aisne : Château-Thierry * Île-de-France region ** Seine-et-Marne : Meaux, Lagny-sur-Marne, Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes, Torcy, Noisiel, Vaires-sur-Marne, Chelles ** Seine-Saint-Denis : Gournay-sur-Marne, Noisy-le-Grand, Neuilly-sur- Marne, Neuilly-Plaisance * Grand Paris ** Val-de-Marne : Nogent-sur-Marne, Créteil, Charenton-le-Pont, Champigny-sur-Marne, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Joinville-le-Pont, Saint-Maurice, Bry-sur-Marne, Le Perreux-sur-Marne, Maisons-Alfort Finally, it flows into the Seine river between Charenton-le- Pont and Alfortville in the Val-de-Marne department, in the area of Paris. ==Main tributaries== The main tributaries of the Marne river are: Left tributaries: * Suize - 48.6 km * Blaise - 85.6 km * Fion - 21.3 km * Coole - 30.2 km * Somme-Soude - 59.9 km * Surmelin - 41.5 km * Petit Morin - 86 km * Grand Morin - 120 km * Guenelle - 30.1 km Right tributaries: * Traire - 29 km * Rognon - 73.3 km * Moivre - 22.8 km * Saulx - 127 km * Ourcq - 87 km * Thérouanne - 23.3 km * Beuvronne - 23.9 km ==Painters of the Marne== During the 19th and 20th centuries the Marne inspired many painters: some of them are: * Camille Corot; * Paul Cézanne; * Pierre Emmanuel Damoye; * Camille Pissarro; * Henri Rousseau, known as "Le Douanier Rousseau"; * Albert Marquet; * Raoul Dufy; * André Dunoyer de Ségonzac; * Louis Vuillermoz; * Maurice Boitel; * Daniel du Janerand. File:Le Pont sur la Marne à Créteil, par Paul Cézanne, Yorck.jpg|Paul Cézanne, Les Bords de la Marne (1888) File:Bord de la Marne, par Paul Cézanne, Hermitage Museum.jpg|Paul Cézanne, Les Rives de la Marne, (around 1888) File:Monsiau-eponine.jpg|La Grotte de Sabinus by Nicolas- André Monsiau File:Pissarro the banks of the marne at chennevières 1864-5.png|By Pissarro at Chenevières File:Émile Bernard Au bord de la Marne c1932.jpg|By Émile Bernard. ==Gallery== File:Marne source.jpg|Source of the Marne File:Marne noisiel.jpg|The Marne in Noisiel File:Barrage Noisiel Marne.jpg|Dam of Noisiel on the Marne river File:Marne ChTh.jpg|The Marne in Château-Thierry ==Related pages== * List of rivers of France * First Battle of the Marne