Fontenay-the-Fleury

Fontenay-the-Fleury is a common department of the Yvelines, in the area Île-de-France, in France, located at approximately ten kilometers in the west of Versailles.

The inhabitants are the Fontenaysiens .

Geography

The commune of Fontenay-the-Fleury is in the Plaine of Versailles to 7,5 kilometers of the center of the prefecture.

It is bordering on Noisy-the-King to the north-north-east, of Bailly in the North-East, Saint-Cyr-the School in south-east, of Bois of Arcy in south-west, Villepreux in the west and Rennemoulin in the North-West.

All the northern part of the communal territory, is 75% of the surface, is agricultural. The urbanization took place in the south-south-east of the commune, along the communal forest known as of Fontenay-the-Fleury. In extreme southern limit, last this forest, the High of Fontenay are located on the plate of the commune of Bois of Arcy. The inhabitants of the hundred houses Tops of Fontenay closer and are turned besides towards Bois of Arcy that towards their commune of membership. The northern limit of Fontenay-the-Fleury is consisted the Ru of Gally, affluent of the Mauldre. The commune is crossed by the Aqueduc of Avre, work underground which feeds Paris out of water.

The commune is served by the secondary road 11 connecting Versailles to Plaisir. The secondary road 127 allows, since this D11 and starting from the western end of the agglomeration, to reach Bois of Arcy and, beyond, the Trunk road 12 and Saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines.

In the railway plan, the city has a station on the line of Railroad Paris-Montparnasse - Dreux via Plaisir which crosses the south of the commune between the center of population and the communal forest, still accentuating separation between the High of Fontenay and the heart of the city.

History

The name of “Fontenay” derives from the Latin , fons, subsidence , the source or the fountain.

At the 17th century, the commune of Fontenay-the-Fleury was included in the “large park” consisted Louis XIV to have reserves of field of Chasse.

1860 : arrived of the Railroad
In 1939, Sacha Guitry, installed in the village since 1937, married Genevieve de Séréville in the Saint-Germain church of Fontenay-the-Fleury.

Town planning

The urbanization of the city is recent (as from 1955). It was carried out in several great phases, with in particular construction, in years 1960 of great residential units (Saint-Cyr military school Park, Parc Montaigne), in the east and the south-east of the commune. In the years 2000, the dwelling developed mainly in the west of the commune, with the erection of a new suburban district (ZAC of Démènerie). The next great project of town planning relates to the restoration of the end is territory of the commune, along the highway A12 (ZAC of Raising).

Culture

Inheritance

the Saint-Germain church, which dates from the 11th century, was rebuilt at the 16th century. It was restored in 1966. The Bell of the church, baptized German, is oldest of the department of Yvelines; it is classified with the Historic building.
the Midsummer's Day vault, restored in 2006, is next to the park of the Missionaries, just below the station the SNCF.
the commune has the effect of having, in the communal cemetery, two war memorials, the first going back to 1920, the second, much more recent, dedicated, seems it, with the deaths buried out of France and not registered on the first memorial.
the castle of Ternay, built at the 18th century, became the property of the Count Dessus about 1850 (the Dessus family, originating in Revel, then of Corrèze, is allied in Ecomard, of Cerou, Boutroux, Poincarré, and Bellisle de Murat). Gabriel Dessus opens in Paris about 1890 two shops of modes, one located Rue of the Peace, the other Place Vendôme, which will be among smartest of the capital in the years of the Belle time. The castle of Ternay will be sold by the Dessus family has their friend Sacha Guitry in 1937.

Twin towns

(see on the German-speaking WP)

Economy

cereal Agriculture .
Common residential, made up mainly of residences in apartment buildings.

See too

Internal bonds

Common of Yvelines
the Community of communes of the Large Park

Electoral constituency (Delegation):

Fontenay-the-Fleury belongs to the Eleventh district of Yvelines which gathers the communes of: Wood of Arcy, Élancourt, the Canopy, Saint-Cyr-the School and Trap doors.

External bonds

Site of the Town hall of Fontenay-the-Fleury
Site of the theater of Fontenay-the-Fleury
Seen air of the commune of Fontenay-the-Fleury on the site of IAURIF
Fontenay-the-Fleury on the site of IGN
Fontenay-the-Fleury on the site of INSEE
Fontenay-the-Fleury on Google Maps:

Situation and plan
Seen satellite

Plane of intendance of the parish of Fontenay Fleury on the site of the files of Yvelines

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