Nogent-sur-Seine

Nogent-sur-Seine is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. The headquarters of The Soufflet Group is located here, as is the Musée Camille Claudel. The large Nogent Nuclear Power Plant is also located here.

Personalities
Sculptor Camille Claudel lived in Nogent-sur-Seine with her family from 1876 to 1879.

Frédéric Moreau, the hero of Gustave Flaubert's novel Sentimental Education, is a native of Nogent-sur-Seine.

The abbey of Nogent-sur-Seine was destroyed during the French Revolution. Fragments of it were used in 1817 in making the canopy over the graves of Pierre Abélard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

International relations
Nogent-sur-Seine is twinned with:
 * Rielasingen-Worblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - since 1973
 * Joal-Fadiouth, Senegal - 1987