Travel Guide Courtomer

Do not confuse the place with the Norman Courtomer located in the Orne! Courtomer, in Seine-et-Marne, is 7 km away from Rozay-en-Brie and 10 km away from Fontenay-Trésigny. This town has just over 500 inhabitants. Courtomer, rural as it is, has a library and a multipurpose room. The gem of the heritage, the church of Sainte-Geneviève de Courtomer was built as from the 13th century. It brings its cachet to the town centre, which also has a succession of beautiful old houses. It was certainly the monks who cleared and cleaned up the original marshes as from the 11th century. The local lord had his castle on a castle mound and the site was a border "step" separating the County of Champagne and the Royal Domain. A remarkable menhir, the Pierre Couvée dating from the polished stone age (7,000-3,000 years B.C.) has been discovered on the territory. Legend has it that Genevieve, having learned that her sister Aubierge was going to build a chapel on the site, decided to add her stone to the building. She went to the forest of Fontainebleau, chose a beautiful stone which she put on her back and returned. An angel told her near the village of Courtomer that the chapel was finished. Genevieve dropped her burden to the ground where it stuck. But of course this is a legend. The truth is prehistoric.