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Communauté D'agglomération De Mantes-en-Yvelines
The ''Communauté d'agglomération de Mantes-en-Yvelines'' (or CAMY) is a former administrative entity in the Yvelines département, near Paris. Its administrative center was Mantes-la-Jolie. It was created in December 1999.CA de Mantes en Yvelines (N° SIREN : 247800014) BANATIC. Accessed 3 April 2022. It was merged into the in January 2016. History * At first, the ''syndicat intercommunal d'assainissement de l'agglomération mantaise'' was founded in 1951. * In 1966, it becam ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantes-la-Jolie
Mantes-la-Jolie (, often informally called Mantes) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region of north-central France. It is located to the west of Paris, from the centre of the capital. Mantes-la-Jolie is a subprefecture; in 2016, it had a population of 44,231. History Mantes was halfway between the centres of power of the dukes of Normandy Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ... at Rouen and the Kings of France at Paris. Along with most of northern France, it changed hands frequently in the Hundred Years' War. Philip Augustus of France, Philip Augustus died at Mantes, 14 July 1223. Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV instituted the manufacture of musical instruments in Mantes, and it was chosen as the centre of brass and woodwind instrument ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flacourt
Flacourt () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. See also *Communes of the Yvelines department An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, ... References Communes of Yvelines {{Yvelines-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Méricourt, Yvelines
Méricourt () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. See also *Communes of the Yvelines department An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, ... References Communes of Yvelines {{Yvelines-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantes-la-Ville
Mantes-la-Ville () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the center. Mantes-la-Ville is located at the confluence of the Seine and the Vaucouleurs. The Paris–Rouen rail line separates Mantes-la-Ville from the larger commune of Mantes-la-Jolie. The A13 autoroute to Normandy also passes through Mantes-la-Ville. Population Inhabitants are called ''Mantevillois''. Approximately one-third of the town's population is Muslim. Economy Mantes-la-Ville is the headquarters of two world-renowned makers of wind instruments: Henri Selmer and Buffet Crampon. Eduard Beaugnier et Cie, another saxophone manufacturer, was also based in Mantes until the company closed down in the early 1970s. Beaugnier manufactured saxophones under their own name, and also as "stencils" for other companies under names such as Noblet, Vito and Revere. Though not as well known as the instrument ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnanville
Magnanville () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It was one of the thirty communes in the Communauté d'agglomération de Mantes-en-Yvelines, merged into the Communauté urbaine Grand Paris Seine et Oise in 2016. History Until the twentieth century, Magnanville had a population of only about 100 people. The village expanded in the twentieth century, with significant house building taking place from the 1970s. Archaeological excavations have found evidence of a small agricultural settlement in the fifth century BCE. In 1750 Charles Savalette, keeper of the Royal Exchequer, employed the architect François Franque to build the chateau de Magnanville on the site of a smaller chateau that had fallen into disrepair. The chateau was demolished in 1803, but one wing was rebuilt four years later by Baron Jacques-Florent Robillard, governor of the Bank of France. The chateau served as a military hospital in World War II, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumeauville
Jumeauville () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. See also *Communes of the Yvelines department An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, ... References Communes of Yvelines {{Yvelines-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jouy-Mauvoisin
Jouy-Mauvoisin is a commune in the Yvelines department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ... in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. See also * Communes of the Yvelines department References Communes of Yvelines {{Yvelines-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hargeville
Hargeville is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. See also *Communes of the Yvelines department An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, ... References Communes of Yvelines {{Yvelines-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guerville, Yvelines
Guerville () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. History Henri, count of Guerville, went to Jerusalem on crusade in the 12th century. On his return he established the priory of Secqueval, of which only ruins of the chapel remain. One holder of the title served under Louis XIV, as the head of royal hunting (the " Grand Écuyer of France"). At the time of the French revolution, the last male heir fled to London where his wife died. He returned to France with his two daughters and was buried in Ferrières-en-Gâtinais. Population See also *Communes of the Yvelines department An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, ... References Communes of Yvelines {{Yvelines-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guernes
Guernes () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. See also *Communes of the Yvelines department An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, ... References Communes of Yvelines {{Yvelines-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goussonville
Goussonville () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. See also *Communes of the Yvelines department An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, ... References Communes of Yvelines {{Yvelines-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gargenville
Gargenville () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France, 45 km to the center of Paris. It is part of the Parc naturel régional du Vexin français. With the neighborhing commune of Issou, it forms an urban area of around 10000 inhabitants. Inhabitants are known in French as the ''Gargenvillois''. History The name Gargenville is referenced as ''Gargen villam''Les Amis du Vexin Français in 1164, ''Gargenvilla'' in 1249,Hippolyte Cocheris, ''Anciens noms des communes de Seine-et-Oise'', 1874, online aCorpus Etampois ''Girgenville'' in 1265, Victor R. Belot, Coutumes et folklores en Yvelines, Préface de Paul-Louis Tenaillon, président du Conseil général des Yvelines de 1977 à 1994, membre émérite de l' Académie des sciences morales, des lettres et des arts de Versailles, Librairie Guénégaud, 1977 (FRBNF 34588328), Page 239 Gargenville in 1429. It comes from the gallic name Garganus and the gallo-romain suf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
