Houilles () is a
commune
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in the
Yvelines
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in the
ÃŽle-de-France
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region
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in north-central
France
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. It is a northwestern suburb of
Paris
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, located from the
center of Paris.
History
Until 2000, the command post of
French Navy's Ballistic Missile Submarine Force was based at Houilles.
Victor Schœlcher
Victor Schœlcher (; 22 July 1804 – 25 December 1893) was a French abolitionist, writer, politician and journalist, best known for his leading role in the abolition of slavery in France in 1848, during the Second Republic.
Early life
Schœlche ...
, a French abolitionist writer in the 19th century and the main spokesman for a group from Paris who worked for the abolition of slavery died in Houilles on 25 December 1893. A nursery school, a street and a statue carry his name. The house in which he died in 1893 is at 26 Avenue Schœlcher. The commune of Houilles acquired the house in 2011.
Population
Transport
Houilles is served by
Houilles–Carrières-sur-Seine station
Houilles–Carrières-sur-Seine station ( French: ''Gare de Houilles-Carrières-sur-Seine'') is a railway station in Houilles, a suburb of Paris, on the Paris–Le Havre railway. Trains arrive at the station from Gare Saint-Lazare and the RER.
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on Paris
RER line A and on the
Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare
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suburban rail line.
Education
Houilles has fifteen preschool and elementary schools and three junior high schools.
[Liste des établissements scolaires]
" Houilles. Retrieved on September 2, 2016.
Junior high schools:
* Collège Alphonse-de-Lamartine
* Collège Guy-de-Maupassant
* Collège Sainte-Thérèse
Nearby senior high schools/sixth form colleges:
[
* Lycée Les-Pierres-Vives (]Carrières-sur-Seine
Carrières-sur-Seine () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
The inhabitants of the town of Carrières-sur-Seine are called ''Carrillons'' (masculine plural) or ''Carrillonnes'' (feminine p ...
)
* Lycée Jules-Verne (Sartrouville
Sartrouville () is a commune in the Yvelines department, ÃŽle-de-France, north central France. it is located in the north-western suburbs of Paris, from the center of Paris.
Name
In the Middle Ages the name Sartrouville was recorded in Medieval ...
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* Lycée Évariste-Galois (Sartrouville)
International relations
Houilles is twinned with:Celorico de Basto
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, Portugal
* Chesham
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, England, United Kingdom
* Friedrichsdorf
Friedrichsdorf () is a town of the Hochtaunuskreis, some north of Frankfurt am Main
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, Germany
* Schœlcher
Schœlcher (; Martinican Creole: ) is a town and the fourth-largest commune in the French overseas department of Martinique. The town was named Case-Navire until 1889, when it was renamed in honor of French abolitionist writer Victor Schœlcher.
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, Martinique, 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
External links
Official website
(in French)
Communes of Yvelines
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