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Saint-Prix () is a French commune located in the
Val-d'Oise Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the ÃŽle-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
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region. Its inhabitants are called Saint-Prissians. The commune is located 15 km to the north of
Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
, on the southern flank of the vast butte-témoin bearing the forest of Montmorency. It overlooks the Montmorency valley. The Hellenist, epigrapher and archaeologist
Bernard Haussoullier Bernard Haussoullier (12 September 1852, Paris – 25 July 1926, Saint-Prix, Val-d'Oise, Saint-Prix) was a French Hellenist, epigrapher and archaeologist. Biography A student of the École normale supérieure and member of the French School at A ...
(1852–1926) died in Saint-Prix.


Etymology

Attested as ''Turnus'' in 1175, ''Tour'' or ''Tourn'', ''To'' or ''Torn'' in 1193, ''Tou'' in 1648, ''Thou'' in 1691. Formerly "Thor" or "Thür", of Germanic origin (compare
Thor Thor (from ) is a prominent list of thunder gods, god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding æsir, god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology, sacred g ...
), the village owes its current name to the
Auvergne Auvergne (; ; or ) is a cultural region in central France. As of 2016 Auvergne is no longer an administrative division of France. It is generally regarded as conterminous with the land area of the historical Province of Auvergne, which was dis ...
saint
Praejectus Praejectus, Prejectus or Projectus (; ) (625–676) was a bishop of Clermont, who was killed together with the abbot Amarinus as a result of contemporary political struggles. Life Born in the Auvergne to Gundolenus, of the lesser nobility; he s ...
martyred in 676 AD, whose relics were deposited in a
priory A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. They were created by the Catholic Church. Priories may be monastic houses of monks or nuns (such as the Benedictines, the Cistercians, or t ...
established by monks who had received them from Jean de Tour, treasurer of the Temple of Paris. Pilgrimages to the relics of Saint-Prix thence progressed, and the name "Saint-Prix" appears in 1536.


Population


See also

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Communes of the Val-d'Oise department The following is a list of the 183 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 2025):


Sources


External links


Official website
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Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise
Communes of Val-d'Oise {{ValOise-geo-stub