Cessy

Cessy is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. The area was first inhabited by two farming families in the eleventh century, and as the town has grown its agricultural heritage has remained a significant feature, with the populated area surrounded by a vast expanse of fields and an annual agricultural festival.

Cessy
Commune
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Cessy
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Coordinates: 46°19′09″N 6°04′12″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ain
Arrondissement	Gex
Canton	Gex
Intercommunality	Pays de Gex Agglo
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Christophe Bouvier
Area ^1	6.39 km^2 (2.47 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	4,856
• Density	760/km^2 (2,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	01071 /01170
Elevation	496–583 m (1,627–1,913 ft) (avg. 526 m or 1,726 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
2006	3,233	—
2007	3,368	+4.2%
2008	3,660	+8.7%
2009	3,819	+4.3%
2010	3,992	+4.5%
2011	4,167	+4.4%
2012	4,342	+4.2%
2013	4,524	+4.2%
2014	4,797	+6.0%
2015	4,817	+0.4%
2016	4,836	+0.4%

Compact Muon Solenoid

One of the primary points of interest in the quiet community of Cessy, France is the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, located 100 meters below ground at a site on the south-eastern edge of the village. CMS is a high-energy particle physics experiment which observes the result of high energy proton-proton collisions of the CERN laboratory's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator.[2]

Personalities

Tim Berners-Lee lived on Rue de la Mairie in Cessy when he, with Robert Cailliau, invented the World Wide Web.

See also

• Communes of the Ain department
• Compact Muon Solenoid

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. "CMS home page". Archived from the original on 2008-11-15. Retrieved 2010-05-25.