Chesnay is a common French, located in the department of the Yvelines and the area Île-de-France.
The inhabitants of Chesnay are the Chesnaysiens .
Geography
The city of Chesnay is located at 18km in the west of Paris.The communes bordering are Vaucresson in the North-East, Versailles of the east in south-west, Rocquencourt in the west and That-Saint-Cloud in north.
The commune of Chesnay does not have station, nearest being that to Gare of Versailles - Right Bank which leads to Paris Saint Lazare.
The communal territory is crossed, in its northern part and according to a East-West axis, by the highway A13 like, in its center and according to a North-South axis, by the trunk road 321 which carry out with That-Saint-Cloud and Bougival towards north and in Versailles towards the south. It is bordered, as south-western and southern limits with Versailles, by the trunk road 186 which carries out in the direction of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer towards north and to Versailles towards the south and, as limits north with That-Saint-Cloud, by the secondary road D307, driving East-West axis with Vaucresson and Saint-Cloud towards the east and Bailly and Noisy-the-King towards the west.
Most of the North-East of the commune is covered by wood of the Bottom-Marshals (oaks and chestnuts).
History
The commune of Chesnay owes its name with the forests of oaks which recovered it.
Demography
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Administration
Town planning
Chesnay shelters, with the residences of Parly II built at the beginning of the Années 1970, the greatest joint ownership of Europe. This joint ownership lodges more half of the inhabitants of the commune.The Shopping mall Parly II is one of largest of Europe. It must be entirely renovated in 2008.
Culture
Architectural heritage
Religious buildings
- the oldest Saint-Germain church, date of 1805. It is located at the north of the commune, in limit of Rocquencourt and is flanked communal cemetery. In this last, the war memorial common to the communes of Chesnay and Rocquencourt was installed.
- the church Saint-Antoine-of-Padoue, located in limit of Versailles, not far from the place of the Law of Versailles was built in 1910 in the style Néo-gothique.
- the church Our-Lady-of-the-Resurrection, modern since opened with faithful in 1970, is located almost in full heart of Parly 2.
Museums
Buildings and public places
- the Aubert castle near the Hospital is used as reception point for the municipality and its superb park is opened to the public, in particular, because of its proximity, with the convalescents of the hospital.
- the shopping mall of Parly 2 accommodates an impressive quantity of stores and shops including one Printemps, a BHV, a Truffaut seedbed and one of largest the Fnac of Europe.
- the Hospital Andre Mignot (former mayor of Versailles) belonged to the Hospital of Versailles (with the Richaud hospital and the Despagne house of Versailles) and contains 737 beds (in 2005).
Personalities related to the commune
- Elizabeth Year Haryett known as Miss Howard, countess and lady of the manor of Beauregard, with That Saint-Cloud, died in 1865 and buried in Chesnay at the sides of his/her son Martin-Constantin Haryett, count de Béchevet (1842 - 1907).
- Open Jean-Louis, painter and French draftsman, deceased in 1931, its tomb with the communal cemetery.
- Jephan de Villiers, French sculptor, born in 1960
- the group of music Air
- the group Phoenix, of which Thomas Mars, been engaged of Sofia Coppola
- Jean-Paul Rouland, man of television. With beginning of the year 50, it makes its entry in a team of " young people loups" to which Pierre Bellemare belongbelonged with which, in 58, it created Técipress from which will leave, inter alia, " the head and jambes" , " the good numéro" , " the camera invisible" … and the microphone of Europe 1 will hold every midday, twenty years of continuation. Insomniac, it will write for the theater (" return to sleep in Elysée"), for the TV (of the serials like " 7 of the staircase 15" , " Nanou" or " the pendule") as well as whodunnits of which " the frelon" who will give to the cinema " to tighten poulet" with Noiret and Girardot. - " At the end of 1988, at 60 years, I left before me am transfered. I aspired to the calm one! " explain this happy man who found his way in painting and the writing zygophiles. " At the end of 35 years of mad dash, I realized that I had sold only wind and, in my last straight line, I wanted to leave a trace, that of a companion of the sourire." he says us.
See too
Related articles
- Common of Yvelines
External bonds
- Official site of the city of Chesnay
- Chesnay - the film
- Site of the hospital of Versailles
- Seen air of the commune of Chesnay on the site of IAURIF
- Chesnay on the site of IGN
- Chesnay on the site of Plane INSEE
- of Chesnay on Google Maps
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