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Plateau De Saclay
The Plateau de Saclay, also called Silicon Valley Européenne (in English, European Silicon Valley), is located north of Essonne and south-east of Yvelines, 20 km south of Paris. It is bounded by the valley of the Yvette (''Vallée de Chevreuse'') to the south and east, and the valley of the Bièvre to the north. It hosts world-class universities, engineering and management schools and research centers, such as Paris-Saclay University, École Polytechnique, HEC, ENSTA ParisTech, CentraleSupélec, IOGS, IHES, CEA, Inria, Danone research center, one Thales research facility, and national scientific instruments such as the SOLEIL synchrotron and the NeuroSpin Project. In order to create an even more attractive campus, other engineering schools and high-value centers are planned: EDF headquarters, Agro ParisTech, Telecom ParisTech, and ENSAE ParisTech for instance. Geography The plateau is located about 165 meters above sea level. It is traversed by ditches that drain wate ...
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Essonne
Essonne () is a department of France in the southern Île-de-France region. It is named after the river Essonne. In 2019, it had a population of 1,301,659 across 194 communes.Populations légales 2019: 91 Essonne
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Essonne was formed on 1 January 1968 when was split into smaller departments. Its prefecture is . Its
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SOLEIL
SOLEIL ("Sun" in French) is a synchrotron facility near Paris, France. It performed its first acceleration of electrons on May 14, 2006. The name ''SOLEIL'' is a backronym for ''Source optimisée de lumière d’énergie intermédiaire du LURE'' (LURE optimised intermediary energy light source), LURE meaning ''Laboratoire pour l'utilisation du rayonnement électromagnétique''. The facility is run by a civil corporation held by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), two French national research agencies. It is located in Saint-Aubin in the Essonne département, a south-western suburb of Paris, near Gif-sur-Yvette and Saclay, which host other facilities for nuclear and particle physics. The facility is an associate member of the University of Paris-Saclay. SOLEIL also hostIPANEMA, the European research platform on ancient materials (archaeology, palaeontology, past environments and cultu ...
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Villiers-le-Bâcle
Villiers-le-Bâcle () is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. Inhabitants of Villiers-le-Bâcle are known as ''Villebaclais''. The painter Tsugouharu Foujita is buried in the commune's cemetery. See also *Communes of the Essonne department The following is a list of the 194 communes of the Essonne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Official website
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Vauhallan
Vauhallan () is a commune in the Essonne department in ÃŽle-de-France in northern France. Inhabitants of Vauhallan are known as ''Vauhallanais''. See also *Communes of the Essonne department The following is a list of the 194 communes of the Essonne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Official website
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Communes of Essonne
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Saint-Aubin, Essonne
Saint-Aubin () is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. Inhabitants of Saint-Aubin are known as ''Saint-Aubinois''. Research activity In the neighbourhood of Saclay and Orsay, Saint-Aubin is the home of two sites of the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA). The synchrotron SOLEIL, a collaboration between CEA and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), is also located here, south of the village. See also *Communes of the Essonne department The following is a list of the 194 communes of the Essonne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Official website
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Palaiseau
Palaiseau () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Palaiseau is a sub-prefecture of the Essonne department and the seat of the Arrondissement of Palaiseau. Inhabitants of Palaiseau are known as ''Palaisiens''. Population Education , the primary schools in Palaiseau have 2,770 students. There are 12 public preschools (''maternelles'') and 10 public elementary schools.Les établissements scolaires maternels et élémentaires
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Orsay
Orsay () is a Communes of France, commune in the Essonne Departments of France, department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France, from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. A fortified location of the Vallée de Chevreuse, Chevreuse valley since the 8th century and agricultural domain of wealthy and influential people, the development of Orsay is marked by the introduction of a Rail transport, railroad in the second half of the 18th century (today the RER B of which two stations are located in Orsay) and donations which allow the construction of a hospital still active to this day. Orsay is the main home to the Paris-Saclay University. The university significantly shapes Orsay's economy as it employs about 10,000 academic workers. The city's economy is also centered on high technology, with several companies drawn to the area by the Paris-Saclay's research and development infrastructure. Seat of the Orsay campus of Pa ...
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Gif-sur-Yvette
Gif-sur-Yvette (, literally ''Gif on Yvette'') is a commune in south-western Ile de France, France. It is located from the center of Paris. Geography The town is crossed by and named after the river Yvette. The total area is and is green spaces and woods. Place names The town of Gif-sur-Yvette is composed of sections: * in the valley: The Rougemonts, The Mérantaise, The Mairie, The Féverie, Coupières, Damiette, Courcelle, l'Abbaye, les Coudraies; * on the Moulon Plateau: The Moulon (uninhabited, aside from a research and educational institute); * on the Hurepoix Plateau: The Hacquinière, Belleville (created before the war) and Chevry (created in the 1970s, and equipped with infrastructure). Also, the commune's territory includes many forests such as the Hacquinière Wood and the d'Aigrefoin Wood. Commune's neighbors The neighboring communes of Gif-sur-Yvette are Villiers-le-Bâcle, Saint-Aubin, Saclay, Orsay, Bures-sur-Yvette, Gometz-le-Châtel, Gometz-la-Ville, and ...
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Versailles Castle
The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, under the direction of the French Ministry of Culture, by the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. Some 15,000,000 people visit the palace, park, or gardens of Versailles every year, making it one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world. Louis XIII built a simple hunting lodge on the site of the Palace of Versailles in 1623 and replaced it with a small château in 1631–34. Louis XIV expanded the château into a palace in several phases from 1661 to 1715. It was a favorite residence for both kings, and in 1682, Louis XIV moved the seat of his court and government to Versailles, making the palace the ''de facto'' capital of France. This state of affairs was continued by Kings Louis XV an ...
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Saclay
Saclay () is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. It had a population of 3,067 in 2006. It is best known for the large scientific facility CEA Saclay, mostly dealing with nuclear and particle physics. Inhabitants of Saclay are known as Saclaysiens. Transport Saclay is served by no station of the Paris Métro ( RER), or suburban rail network. The closest station to Saclay is Le Guichet station on Paris RER line B. This station is located in the neighboring commune of Orsay, to the south of the town center of Saclay. See also *Communes of the Essonne department *Plateau de Saclay The Plateau de Saclay, also called Silicon Valley Européenne (in English, European Silicon Valley), is located north of Essonne and south-east of Yvelines, 20 km south of Paris. It is bounded by the valley of the Yvette ('' Vallée de Chevreu ... References External links *Official websiteCommunity blog *Mayors of Essonne Association ...
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ENSAE ParisTech
ENSAE Paris (officially École nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique Paris) is a university in France, known as Grandes Ecoles and a member of IP Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris). ENSAE Paris is known as the specialization school of École Polytechnique for statistics, data science and machine learning. It is one of France's top schools of economics and statistics and is directly attached to France's Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE) and the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. History The ENSAE was established in 1942 by the National Statistics Service (ancestor of the INSEE, National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies) under the name, School of Applied Statistics. In 1946, with the creation of INSEE, the school took the name of INSEE Specialization School. At this time, the school led to two types of administrative career: "administrateur" (the highest managing level of the INSEE administra ...
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Telecom ParisTech
Telecom may refer to: * Telecommunications ** A telephone company (or ''telecommunications service provider'') ** The telecommunications industry * Telecom Animation Film, a Japanese studio See also * Telcom (other) * Telekom (other) * List of telephone operating companies ** BH Telecom, Bosnia and Herzegovina ** Bouygues Telecom, France ** BT Group, formerly British Telecom, United Kingdom ** China Telecom, China ** ER-Telecom, Russia ** Orange SA, formerly France Télécom ** Golan Telecom, Israel ** Hong Kong Telecom, China ** Nepal Telecom, Nepal ** Nortel, formerly Northern Telecom, Canada ** Rostelecom, Russia ** Telecom Argentina ** Telecom Éireann, Ireland ** Telecom Italia, Italy ** Telstra, formerly Telecom Australia ** Tunisie Telecom, Tunisia ** Spark New Zealand Spark New Zealand Limited is a New Zealand telecommunications company providing fixed-line plain old telephone service, telephone services, a mobile phone network, internet service pr ...
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