YVELINES

'Yvelines' is a French department in the region of Île-de-France.

Contents

History

Geography

Demographics

Tourism

Palaces and Châteaux

Museums

Artist's and Writer's Houses

Parks and Gardens

Politics of Yvelines

Senators from Yvelines

See also

External links

History

Yvelines was created from the western part of the defunct department of Seine-et-Oise on January 1, 1968 in accordance with a law passed on January 10, 1964 and a ''décret d'application'' (a decree specifying how a law should be enforced) from February 26, 1965.
It gained the communes of Châteaufort and Toussus-le-Noble from the adjacent department of Essonne in 1969.

Geography

Yvelines is bordered by the departments of Val-d'Oise on the north, Hauts-de-Seine on the east, Essonne on the southeast, Eure-et-Loir on the southwest, and Eure on the west.
The eastern part of the department, as well as its northern part along the Seine, are part of the Paris metropolitan area, but the rest of the department is rural, much of it covered by the Rambouillet Forest.
Besides Versailles (the prefecture) and the subprefectures of Mantes-la-Jolie, Rambouillet, and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, important cities include Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Poissy, Les Mureaux, Houilles, Plaisir, Sartrouville, Chatou, Le Chesnay, and the new agglomeration community of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
Two regional national parks can be found in Yvelines: the ''parc de la Haute Vallée de Chevreuse'' and part of the ''parc du Vexin Français''.
Yvelines is home to one of France's best known golf courses, La Tuilerie-Bignon, in the village of Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche.
See also Map of Yvelines.

Demographics

In French, a man from Yvelines is called ''Yvelinois'' (plural ''Yvelinois''); a woman is ''Yvelinoise'' (plural ''Yvelinoises).

Tourism

Palaces and Châteaux

★ Palace of Versailles

★ Château of Breteuil

★ Château of Dampierre

★ Château of Maisons-Lafitte

★ Château of Rambouillet

★ Château of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

★ Château of Thoiry

★ Château of Vaux-sur-Seine

★ Château of Mauvières

Museums

★ Museum of National Antiques (Saint-Germain-en-Laye)

★ Museum of River and Canal Craft (Conflans-Sainte-Honorine)

★ Horse-drawn Coach Museum (Versailles)

★ Toy Museum (Poissy)

★ Sheep Museum (Rambouillet)

★ Cloth Museum of Jouy (Jouy-en-Josas)

★ National Barn Museum of Port-Royal (Magny-les-Hameaux)

★ International Museum of Naive Art

Artist's and Writer's Houses

★ André Derain's house (Chambourcy)

★ Elsa Triolet-Aragon's house (Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines)

★ Émile Zola's house (Médan)

★ Maurice Ravel's house/museum (Montfort-l'Amaury)

★ Ivan Turgenev House (Bougival)

★ Alexandre Dumas, père's Château de Monte-Cristo (Port-Marly)

★ Jean-Claude Richard's family estate (Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche)

Parks and Gardens

★ Chèvreloup Arboretum (Rocquencourt)

★ Marly Estate (Marly-le-Roi)

★ Vaux sur Seine Castle Garden (Vaux sur Seine)

★ The King's Vegetable Garden (Versailles)

Politics of Yvelines

Senators from Yvelines

★ About Nicolas (Centrist Union)

★ Bellanger Jacques (Socialist Party)

★ Braye Dominique (UMP)

★ Gournac Alain (UMP)

★ Larcher Gérard (UMP)

See also

★ Cantons of the Yvelines department

★ Communes of the Yvelines department

★ Arrondissements of the Yvelines department

External links

★ Prefecture of Yvelines

★ General council of Yvelines