Time zone CET (UTC+1) Cantons 21 Department number 78 Population 1.418 million (2013) | Region Île-de-France Arrondissements 4 Area 2,284 km² Prefecture Versailles, Yvelines Capital Versailles, Yvelines | |
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Subprefectures Mantes-la-JolieRambouilletSaint-Germain-en-Laye Points of interest Colleges and Universities Versailles Saint‑Quentin‑en‑Yvelines University, HEC Paris, ESTACA - Engineering School, École nationale supérieur, École nationale supérieur | ||
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Yvelines ([ivlin]) is a French department in the region of Île-de-France.
Contents
- Views around versailles yvelines le de france france 20th october 2014
- Map of Yvelines France
- History
- Geography
- Demographics
- Palaces and chteaux
- Museums
- Artists and writers houses
- Parks and gardens
- Politics of Yvelines
- Senators from Yvelines
- References
Map of Yvelines, France
History
Yvelines was created from the western part of the former department of Seine-et-Oise on 1 January 1968 in accordance with a law passed on 10 January 1964 and a décret d'application (a decree specifying how a law should be enforced) from 26 February 1965. It inherited Seine-et-Oise's official number of 78.
It gained the communes of Châteaufort and Toussus-le-Noble from the adjacent department of Essonne in 1969.
The departmental capital, Versailles, which grew up around Louis XIV's château, was also the French capital for more than a century under the Ancien Régime and again between 1871 and 1879 during the early years of the Third Republic. Since then the château has continued to welcome the French Parliament when it is called upon to sit in a congressional sitting (with both houses sitting together) in order to enact constitutional changes or to listen to a formal declaration by the president.
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, is part of the Paris metropolitan area, but the rest of the department is rural, much of it covered by the Forest of Rambouillet (also known as the Forest of Yveline, from which the name of the department is derived).
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 parks can be found in Yvelines: the parc of the Haute Vallée de Chevreuse and part of the parc of 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.
Demographics
In French, a man from the Yvelines is called Yvelinois (plural Yvelinois); a woman is Yvelinoise (plural Yvelinoises).
Palaces and châteaux
Museums
Artists' and writers' houses
Parks and gardens
Politics of Yvelines
Former Prime Minister of France Michel Rocard, was an MP for this department, of the French Socialist Party.