Houilles
Houilles | |
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Town hall | |
![]() Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs | |
Coordinates: 48°55′34″N 2°11′21″E / 48.9261°N 2.1892°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Île-de-France |
Department | Yvelines |
Arrondissement | Saint-Germain-en-Laye |
Canton | Houilles |
Intercommunality | CA Saint Germain Boucles Seine |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Julien Chambon[1] |
Area 1 | 4.43 km2 (1.71 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 33,449 |
• Density | 7,600/km2 (20,000/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 78311 /78800 |
Elevation | 27–57 m (89–187 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Houilles (French pronunciation: [uj] ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is a northwestern suburb of Paris, located 14.2 km (8.8 mi) from the center of Paris.
History
[edit]Until 2000, the command post of the French Navy's Ballistic Missile Submarine Force was based at Houilles.
Victor Schœlcher, 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
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Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4] |
Transport
[edit]Houilles is served by Houilles–Carrières-sur-Seine station on Paris RER line A and on the Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare suburban rail line.
Education
[edit]Houilles has fifteen preschool and elementary schools and three junior high schools.[5]
Junior high schools:
- Collège Alphonse-de-Lamartine
- Collège Guy-de-Maupassant
- Collège Sainte-Thérèse
Nearby senior high schools/sixth form colleges:[5]
- Lycée Les-Pierres-Vives (Carrières-sur-Seine)
- Lycée Jules-Verne (Sartrouville)
- Lycée Évariste-Galois (Sartrouville)
International relations
[edit]Celorico de Basto, Portugal
Chesham, England, United Kingdom
Friedrichsdorf, Germany
Schœlcher, Martinique, France
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Houilles, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ a b "Liste des établissements scolaires." Houilles. Retrieved on September 2, 2016.
- ^ "Comité de Jumelage de Houilles". jumelage-houilles.com (in French). Comité de Jumelage de Houilles. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
External links
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- Official website (in French)