Thorigny-sur-Marne (French pronunciation: [tɔʁiɲi syʁ maʁn] ⓘ, literally Thorigny on Marne) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
[4] The commune has one junior high school, Collège du Moulin à vent, and a vocational high school, Lycée Auguste Perdonnet.
The area general senior high school/sixth form college, Lycée Van Dongen, is in Lagny-sur-Marne.
[5] In 1649, during the reign of Louis XIV, Thorigny-Sur-Marne was brutally pillaged for 12 days by the Regiment de Conti after agreeing to give them quarter.
[6] Witnesses describe how they "used extraordinary violence, having beaten and ransomed the inhabitants, pillaged and burned their furnishings...cut down their fruit trees...eaten and scattered their flock.