Saint-Leu-la-Forêt () is a
commune
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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.[< ...]
department, in the northwestern suburbs of
Paris
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,
France
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. It is located from the
centre of Paris.
History
In 1806, the commune of Saint-Leu-la-Forêt merged with the neighboring commune of
Taverny
Taverny () is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.
Inhabitants are called ''Tabernaciens''.
History
In 1806 the commune of Taverny merged with the neighboring commune of Saint-Leu, ...
, resulting in the creation of the commune of ''Saint-Leu-Taverny''.
In 1821, the commune of ''Saint-Leu-Taverny'' was demerged. Thus, Saint-Leu-la-Forêt and Taverny were both restored as separate communes.
Population
Transport
Saint-Leu-la-Forêt is served by
Saint-Leu-la-Forêt station
Saint-Leu-la-Forêt is a railway station located in the commune of Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (Val-d'Oise department), France. The station is served by Transilien H trains, on the line from Paris to Persan-Beaumont via Saint-Leu-la-Forêt. The daily nu ...
on the
Transilien Paris-Nord
Transilien Paris-Nord is one of the sectors in the Paris Transilien suburban rail network. The trains on this sector depart from Gare du Nord in central Paris, and serve the north-west and north-east of Île-de-France region with Transilien lines H ...
suburban rail line.
Cultural connections
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Louis Bonaparte
Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (born Luigi Buonaparte; 2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846) was a younger brother of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. He was a monarch in his own right from 1806 to 1810, ruling over the Kingdom of Holland (a French ...
brother to
Napoleon I
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader wh ...
and father to
Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A neph ...
, is buried at Saint-Leu-la-Forêt.
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Wanda Landowska's villa in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt became a center for the performance and study of early music, particularly of the Baroque era.
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Eyvind Johnson
Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nob ...
lived rue de Boissy, from 1926 to 1930.
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Sylvie Oussenko
Sylvie Oussenko (born 5 June 1945) is a contemporary French mezzo-soprano and writer.
Biography
Born in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, after a classical baccalaureate degree (Latin-Greek), Oussenko entered the Institut Catholique de Paris, then at th ...
(born in 1945), singer
mezzo-soprano and writer was born in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt.
* In
Patrick Modiano
Jean Patrick Modiano (; born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend of autobiography and historical fiction.
In ...
's book, ''
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood'', the narrator spends part of his childhood in the care of a teenage girl living in a mysterious house in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt.
Twin towns
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Wendlingen am Neckar
Wendlingen is a town in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated on the Neckar and Lauter rivers, 27 km southeast of Stuttgart.
The town grew in size, officially, on 1 April 1940, when three separ ...
,
Germany
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*
Culcheth
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,
United Kingdom
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See also
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Communes of the Val-d'Oise department
The following is a list of the 184 Communes of France, communes of the Val-d'Oise Departments of France, department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020):
References
External links
Official websiteAssociation of Mayors of the Val d'Oise
Communes of Val-d'Oise
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