Chailly-en-Bière

Chailly-en-Bière
The town hall in Chailly-en-Bière
Motto: 
La main à l’œuvre (French: Time to work)
Location of Chailly-en-Bière
Chailly-en-Bière
Chailly-en-Bière
Coordinates: 48°28′05″N 2°36′28″E / 48.4681°N 2.6078°E / 48.4681; 2.6078
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentSeine-et-Marne
ArrondissementFontainebleau
CantonFontainebleau
IntercommunalityCA Pays de Fontainebleau
Government
  Mayor (20202026) Alain Thiery
Area
1
13.08 km2 (5.05 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)
2,172
  Density170/km2 (430/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
77069 /77930
Elevation76–93 m (249–305 ft)
Website
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Chailly-en-Bière (French pronunciation: [ʃaji ɑ̃ bjɛʁ] , lit.'Chailly in Bière') is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Painters Claude Monet and Frédéric Bazille spent time there together in 1865, and Bazille painted Monet in his work The Improvised Field Hospital.