commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
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.
Île-de-France
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in northern
France
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.
Previously known as Arnouville-lès-Gonesse, the name was officially renamed to Arnouville on 11 July 2010.
Population
Education
Public primary schools in the commune:
* Preschools (''écoles maternelles''):
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
, Anna Fabre, Charles Perrault, and Claude Demange
* Elementary schools: Victor Hugo, Danielle Casanova,
Jean Jaurès
Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès (3 September 185931 July 1914), commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès (; oc, Joan Jaurés ), was a French Socialist leader. Initially a Moderate Republican, he later became one of the first social dem ...
, and Jean Monnet
The commune also has a junior high school, Collège Jean Moulin, and a vocational high school,
Lycée d’Enseignement Professionnel Virginia Henderson
In France, secondary education is in two stages:
* ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15.
* ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between ...
. Lycée René Cassin, a general high school/sixth-form college, is in nearby
Gonesse
Gonesse () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.
The commune lies immediately north of Le Bourget Airport, and it is six kilometres (four miles) south- ...
.
The private school network École Saint-Didier has its junior high division, Collège Saint Didier, in Arnouville, while the primary division is in
Villiers-le-Bel
Villiers-le-Bel is a Communes of France, commune in the France, French Departments of France, department of Val-d'Oise, in the northern suburbs of Paris. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris.
History
A tragedy occurred in the ...
.
Partnerships
The Commune has a Friendship Declaration with the village of
Şəkər, Khojavend
Shekher ( hy, Շեխեր; az, Şexer) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The village had an ethnic Armenian-majority population prior to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, and also had a ...
, of the de facto independent
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Artsakh, officially the Republic of Artsakh () or the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (),, is a breakaway state in the South Caucasus whose territory is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan. Artsakh controls a part of the former N ...
(which is de jure part of
Azerbaijan
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). In June 2019, the French administrative court of
Cergy-Pontoise
Cergy-Pontoise () is a new town and an agglomeration community in France, in the Val-d'Oise and Yvelines departments, northwest of Paris on the river Oise. It owes its name to two of the communes that it covers, Cergy and Pontoise. Its populatio ...
declared that the signing breached French law by exceeding the authority of a municipal jurisdiction and by not respecting the international commitments of France (notably Nagorno-Karabakh's lack of recognition as a state), proclaiming the declaration null and void.Anne Collin Arnouville : la charte d’amitié avec le Haut-Karabagh annulée par la justice '' Le Parisien''. 3 June 2019.