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Villiers-le-Bel – Gonesse – Arnouville (Paris RER)
Villiers-le-Bel is a commune in the French department of Val-d'Oise, in the northern suburbs of Paris. It is located from the center of Paris. History A tragedy occurred in the town in the early evening of March 25, 1818, when a cracked 6,000 pound (2721 kg) bell being removed from a belfry came crashing down, killing approximately 25 onlookers. Workers who remained hanging from collapsed steeple were able to be rescued.Annual Register, 1818 p. 52 (Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, pubs., London, 1819)(9 June 1818) Foreign ''The Reflector'' (Milledgeville, Georgia), p. 2 col. 3, near bottom [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of France
The () is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated 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 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 lack of administrative powers. Except for the municipal arrondi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. An African American church leader and the son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through nonviolence and civil disobedience. Inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi, he led targeted, nonviolent resistance against Jim Crow laws and other forms of discrimination. King participated in and led marches for the right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights. He oversaw the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As president of the SCLC, he led the unsuccessful Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Beljame
Alexandre Beljame (November 26, 1842September 19, 1906) was a French writer. Life He was born at Villiers-le-Bel, Val-d'Oise. He spent part of his childhood in England and was a frequent visitor in London. His lectures on English literature at the Sorbonne, where a chair was created expressly for him, did much to promote the study of English in France. In 1905–1906 he was Clark lecturer on English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge. He died at Domont (Val-d'Oise) on September 19, 1906. His best known book was a masterly study of the conditions of literary life in England in the 18th century illustrated by the lives of Dryden, Addison and Pope. This book, ''Le Public et les hommes de lettres en Angleterre au XVIII' siècle'' (1881), was crowned by the French Academy on the appearance of the second edition in 1897. He was a good Shakespearian scholar, and his editions of ''Macbeth'', ''Othello'' and ''Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonesse
Gonesse () is a Communes of France, commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. The commune lies immediately north of Le Bourget Airport, and it is six kilometres (four miles) south-west of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Charles de Gaulle International Airport. History Since Carolingian Empire, Carolingian times, cereals have been grown in Gonesse. In the period of the 12th through to the 16th centuries, the cultivation of grain was supplemented by drapery, in particular the production of the coarse woollen material of the ''gaunace''.Histoire de Gonesse – Quelques repères historiques . ''Ville-gonesse.fr'', r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Plessis-Gassot
Le Plessis-Gassot () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department and Île-de-France region of France. 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):Official website Mérimée database - Cultural heritage [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Théophile 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 Musée 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'OiseMusée National de la Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bouqueval
Bouqueval () is a Communes of France, commune in the Val-d'Oise Departments of France, department in Île-de-France in northern France. See also *Communes of the Val-d'Oise department References External links *Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise Communes of Val-d'Oise {{ValOise-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Paris 13
Sorbonne Paris North University (french: Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) is a public university based in Paris, France. It is one of the thirteen universities that succeeded the University of Paris in 1968. It is a multidisciplinary university located in north of Paris, in the municipalities of Villetaneuse, Saint-Denis, La Plaine Saint-Denis, Bobigny and Argenteuil. Successively named “Université Paris XIII”, “Université Paris-Nord”, “Université Paris 13 Paris Nord”, then “Université Paris 13”, it has been known by several names during the last half century. Most recently it was renamed "Université Sorbonne Paris Nord" on January 1, 2020. The University Sorbonne Paris Nord is a major teaching and research center located north of Paris. It has five campuses, spread over the two departments of Seine-Saint-Denis and Val d'Oise: Villetaneuse, Bobigny, Saint-Denis, the Plaine Saint-Denis and Argenteuil. The university has more than 25,000 students in initial o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Paris 8
Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis (french: Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis) is a public university in Paris, France. Once part of the historic University of Paris, it is now an autonomous public institution. It is one of the thirteen successors of the world's second oldest academic institution, the University of Paris, and was established shortly before the latter officially ceased to exist on 31 December 1970. It was founded as a direct response to events of May 1968. This response was twofold: it was sympathetic to students' demands for more freedom, but also represented the movement of students out of central Paris, especially the Latin Quarter, where the street fighting of 1968 had taken place. History Founded in 1969, the new experimental institution was named ''Centre Universitaire Expérimental de Vincennes'' (CUEV) in Vincennes. In 1971, it gained full university status, thus allowing it to award its own degrees, and renamed "Université Paris VIII". S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Université De Cergy-Pontoise
Cergy-Pontoise University (French: ''Université de Cergy-Pontoise'') was a French university, located in Cergy-Pontoise, France. On 1 January 2020, the university merged with the CY Tech, International School of Information Processing Sciences (EISTI) and the University of Paris-Seine to form CY Cergy Paris University. Cergy-Pontoise University is a public university and a leading centre of teaching and research, which welcomes 18,000 students and 1,500 international students interested in studying abroad. The university is located in the west of Paris (30 km from central Paris), in the Val-d'Oise department. The university also managed the Institut d'études politiques de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (in cooperation with the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University). Faculties The university offers all levels of graduate and post-graduate studies. 144 bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees are available in a wide range of fields : law, economy and management, languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycée Jean Jacques Rousseau (Sarcelles)
Lycée Jean Jacques Rousseau is a senior high school/sixth-form college in Sarcelles, Val-d'Oise, France, in the Paris metropolitan area. It was originally an annex of the Lycée de Montmorency that opened in October 1960 but it became independent in January 1965 and moved to its current location in October 1966. it has 1,735 students. students from Villiers-le-Bel attending general high school studies go to Rousseau, because Villiers-le-Bel does not have its own general high school. () "C'est ainsi que Villiers, ..ais d'aucun lycée d'enseignement général. Les jeunes vont au lycée Jean-Jacques Rousseau de Sarcelles." History Throughout the decades the student population increased, from 1,600 students in 1975 to 2,400 students in 1989. The school had insufficient ''agents de service'' by the 1990s, with only an increase from 49 agents in 1975 to over 30 agents in 1989, and then a decrease to 28.5 positions in 1994. By 2016 the school had 1,800 students. That year employees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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