Épinay-Champlâtreux

Geography

The village is located in the middle of the flat of France, to 25 km in the north of Paris, on the Trunk road 16.

History

The village of Épinay is mentioned for the first time in 1383.

Épinay-Champlâtreux was the property of the Molé family, originating in Troyes starting from 1567, when Edouard Molé acquires of it. In 1641, his/her son Mathieu Molé (1584-1656) becomes First president of the Parlement of Paris then, ten years later, Minister of Justice. Its role during the Fronde will be very important.
Entre 1751 and 1757, Mathieu-François Molé makes build the current castle. Louis-Philippe organized the Council of Ministers in there 1833 (Mathieu Louis Molé was its Prime Minister). The Famille of Noailles inherited the castle of Champlâtreux by alliance with died of Mathieu Louis Molé in 1855.

Administration

Épinay-Champlâtreux belongs to the jurisdiction of authority of Écouen, and great authority as well as trade of Pontoise.

Demography

Personalities related to the commune

Marie-Louise de Lamoignon (1763 - 1825), widow of Edouard François Mathieu Mole, it founded the Ordre of the sisters of the Charity of Saint-Louis.
Anna de Noailles (1876 - 1933), poetess.
François de Noailles (1905 -), which was mayor of Épinay-Champlâtreux since 1932 until in 2001 what makes of him the senior of the mayors of France (69 years of mandate). It made countryside forever, forever have political adversary and accommodated very simply all its managed in its castle. It took the changing of his father, and, quite naturally, it is his/her son who took the continuation.

See too

Internal bonds

Common Countries of France
of the Val-d'Oise

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