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Écouen
Écouen () is a Communes of France, commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris. The 19th-century poet and playwright Pierre-Joseph Charrin (1784–1863) died in Écouen. The artist Louis ThĂ©ophile Hingre lived and worked in Écouen. Écouen houses the Château d'Écouen, home of the Montmorency family. This château, built during the Renaissance, houses the MusĂ©e national de la Renaissance, the largest Renaissance museum in France. Population Transport Écouen is served by Gare d'Écouen-Ézanville, Écouen – Ézanville station on the Transilien Paris – Nord suburban rail line. This station is located at the border between the commune of Écouen and the commune of Ézanville, on the Ézanville side of the border. See also *Communes of the Val-d'Oise department References External linksTourism office board *Association of Mayors of the Val d'OiseMusĂ©e National de la Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Château D'Écouen
The Château d'Écouen is an historic château in the commune of Écouen, some 20 km north of Paris, France, and a notable example of French Renaissance architecture. Since 1975, it has housed the collections of the Musée national de la Renaissance (National Museum of the Renaissance). The château was built between 1539 and 1555 for Anne de Montmorency, the ''Connétable de France'' or Grand Constable, chief minister and commander of the French army for King Francois I, and later for Henri II of France, Henri II. It contains important collections of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, stained glass, furniture, textiles and other arts of the French Renaissance. History of the Château Records show that a fortress has existed on this hilltop site since the 12th century. The fortress guarded the Plain of France, the historic invasion route from the north. Anne de Montmorency, a nobleman, senior minister and childhood companion of King Francis I of France, Francis I, inherited the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val-d'Oise
Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It was created in 1968 following the split of the Seine-et-Oise department. In 2019, Val-d'Oise had a population of 1,249,674.Populations légales 2019: 95 Val-d'Oise INSEE It is named after the river , a major tributary of the Seine, which crosses the region after having started in Belgium and flowed through Northeastern France. Val-d'Oise is Île-de-France's northernmost department. |
Louis Théophile Hingre
Louis Théophile Hingre (also known as Théophile Hingre) was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, illustrator and poster artist. He was born in 1832 in Écouen, where he also died, in 1911. His specialty was sculptures of animals. Life and career Hingre was born on 19 November 1832, in Écouen. At the age of 12, he was apprenticed in Paris to the studio of Henri Louis Gervais and Adrien Possot to learn ornamental sculpture and manufacture of bronzes. His apprenticeship continued until he was 25. In 1851, at the age of 19, he married Louise Dailly. They had four children, Maximilien, Clémentine, Marguerite and finally Leon, who also became a painter, forging his career in England. During Hingre's career, he was a member of the artistic jury of his department (d'État de la Seine) from 1896 till 1906, an officer of the Academy of Arts from 1899 and a public teacher of the arts from 1908. A republican by political orientation, he was close to Louis Blanc, having met him d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communauté D'agglomération Roissy Pays De France
The Communauté d'agglomération Roissy Pays de France is a '' communauté d'agglomération'' in the Val-d'Oise and Seine-et-Marne ''départements'' and in the Île-de-France '' région'' of France. It was formed on 1 January 2016 by the merger of the former ''communauté d'agglomération Val de France'', ''communauté d'agglomération Roissy Porte de France'' and 17 communes that were part of the Communauté de communes Plaines et Monts de France.Arrêté interpréfectoral 9 November 2015 Its seat is in . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Joseph Charrin
Pierre-Joseph Charrin (2 February 1784 – 25 April 1863) was a 19th-century French poet, chansonnier, playwright and goguettier. He was a member of the '' Caveau moderne'' and founder, in 1813, of the '' Soupers de Momus''.Charrin annonce sa qualité de fondateur des ''Soupers de Momus'' on the cover of the Album poétique, ou Choix de romances et de chansons des auteurs les plus connus, recueillies par J.-P. Charrin, Membre de plusieurs Académies, Convive, Fondateur des Soupers de Momus.' The initials of the two names have been reversed here by mistake. 14 August 1814, he was received in the '' Caveau lyonnais''. On that occasion he wrote reception couplets. In 1815, in collaboration with César de Proisy d'Eppe, Alexis Eymery, René Perrin and Joseph Tastu, he was one of the five editors of the ''Dictionnaire des girouettes, ou Nos contemporains peints d'après eux-mêmes ... par une société de girouettes...''' This 444 pages book which stigmatized the opportunists of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montmorency Family
The House of Montmorency, pronounced , was one of the oldest and most distinguished noble families in France. Origins The family name Montmorency derived from their castle in the ''pays de France'', recorded in Latin as ''Mons Maurentiacus'', in 993. ''Maurentiacus'', the name of the area surrounding the castle, meant "estate of Maurentius", probably a Gallo-Roman landowner. The village which grew up in the vicinity of the castle was also known as ''Montmorency'', and is eponymous of the modern commune of Montmorency, Val-d'Oise ''département'', in the immediate neighborhood of Enghien-les-Bains and Saint-Denis, about northwest of Paris. History The family, since its first appearance in history in the person of Bouchard I of Montmorency in the 10th century, has furnished six constables and twelve marshals of France, several admirals and cardinals, numerous grand officers of the Crown and grand masters of various knightly orders. Henry IV of France once said, that if ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transilien Paris – Nord
Transilien Paris-Nord is one of the sectors in the Paris Transilien suburban rail network. The trains on this sector depart from Gare du Nord in central Paris, and serve the north-west and north-east of Île-de-France region with Transilien lines H and K. Transilien services from Gare du Nord are part of the SNCF Gare du Nord rail network. Line H The trains on Line H travel between Gare du Nord in Paris and the north-west of Île-de-France region, with termini in Luzarches, Pontoise, Persan–Beaumont and Creil. List of Line H stations Pontoise branch * Gare du Nord * Saint-Denis station * Épinay–Villetaneuse station * La Barre - Ormesson station * Enghien-les-Bains station * Champ de courses d'Enghien station * Ermont–Eaubonne station * Cernay station * Franconville – Le Plessis-Bouchard station * Montigny–Beauchamp station * Pierrelaye station * Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône-Liesse station * Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône station * Pontoise station Persan-Beaumont West B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ézanville
Ézanville () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France. Écouen - Ézanville station has rail connections to Persan, Luzarches, Sarcelles and Paris. Population See also *Communes of the Val-d'Oise department The following is a list of the 184 communes of the Val-d'Oise department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise Communes of Val-d'Oise {{ValOise-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of The Val-d'Oise Department
The following is a list of the 184 communes of the Val-d'Oise department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):BANATIC Périmètre des EPCI à fiscalité propre. Accessed 3 July 2020. * Métropole du Grand Paris (partly) * de Cergy-Pontoise (partly) * |
Communes Of France
The () is a level of administrative divisions, administrative division in the France, French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipality, municipalities in the United States and Canada, ' in Germany, ' in Italy, or ' in Spain. The United Kingdom's equivalent are civil parishes, although some areas, particularly urban areas, are unparished. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlet (place), hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are ( or ), the difference residing in the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, Fashion capital, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called Caput Mundi#Paris, the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilometre Zero
In many countries, kilometre zero (also written ''km 0'') or similar terms in other languages (also known as zero mile marker, zero milepost, control stations or control points) denote a particular location (usually in the nation's capital city) from which distances are traditionally measured, this is also used for measuring distances between different countries around the world. Historically, they were markers where drivers could set their odometers to follow the directions in early guide books. One such marker is the Milliarium Aureum ("Golden Milestone") of the Roman Empire, believed to be the literal origin for the maxim that " all roads lead to Rome". Countries Argentina Argentina marks kilometre zero with a monolith in Plaza Congreso in Buenos Aires. The work of the brothers Máximo and José Fioravanti, the structure was placed on the north side of Plaza Lorea on October 2, 1935; it was moved to its present location on May 18, 1944. An image of Our Lady of Luján ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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