Harbour

St Jacques

4.1Le Mée-sur-Seine, FranceSeine and Paris

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Maximum length: 32 ft
Maximum draught: 8 ft

River port of 25 berths on the Seine at Le Mée-sur-Seine, south of Melun in Seine-et-Marne, left bank.

Guide

Approach and anchoring

Navigation on the Seine between the Vives-Eaux lock downstream and the Varennes lock upstream. Maximum draught 2.5 m. Commercial barges run regularly, keep clear of the channel when mooring or casting off.

Practical

25 berths on pontoons, water and shore power, WC on site, though a small family-run port where not every facility is yet in place. Winter lay-up is tolerated but not living aboard. Small supermarket and bakery at 800 m in the village. Melun railway station, on the Gare de Lyon line, at 3 km.

Ashore

Forêt de Fontainebleau northern edge at 4 km south, 25,000 hectares of sandstone bluffs and oak forest. Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte at 7 km, seventeenth century residence by Le Vau, Le Brun and Le Nôtre. Église Saint-Étienne of Le Mée, twelfth century rural church, at 1 km.

History

Le Mée-sur-Seine was a farming commune until the twentieth century expansion of Melun. The painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot lived and painted at Le Mée on several occasions between 1817 and 1871, and a memorial bust marks the house he stayed in.