As of 2016[update] the three preschools have 376 students, and the three elementary schools have 640 students. The preschools are: Ecole Maternellle Les Cerisiers, Ecole Maternelle Clémenceau, and Ecole Maternelle Les Pointes. The elementary schools are Ecole Elémentaire Les Cerisiers, Ecole Elémentaire Gambetta, and Ecole Elémentaire Les Pointes.[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]
History
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."[7]
^Lynn, John A. “How War Fed War: The Tax of Violence and Contributions during the Grand Siècle.” The Journal of Modern History 65, no. 2 (1993): 286. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2124447.
^"Requête des habitans du bourg de Thorigny, eslection de Sens," from an order of February 10, 1650, in Peter Jonathan Berger, "Military and Financial Government in France, 1648-1661" (Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1979), p. 94.
