Guyancourt is a common French, located in the department of the Yvelines and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants are Guyancourtois and Guyancourtoises.

Geography

Description

The commune of Guyancourt is located in the east of Yvelines at approximately thirty kilometers at the west of Paris.

The communes bordering are Versailles in the North-East, Buc in the east, Châteaufort in south-east, Magny-the-Hamlets in the south, Neighbors-the-Bretonneux in south-west, Montigny-le-Bretonneux in the west and Saint-Cyr-the School in the North-West.

The communal territory occupies a plate with approximately 160 meters of altitude, deeply notched in its northern part by the valley of the Bièvre which separates it from the plate of Satory. The valley of the Beaver is protected by a site registered since May 4th, 1972 and a site classified since July 7th, 2000. The source of the Beaver is in the hamlet of Bouviers to 134 meters of altitude in the North-East of the territory. The course of the river crosses the four ponds of the Mine: the pond Directs, the pond of the Fox Mill, the pond of the Mine and the pond of Valley-in Or. It carries on then its road towards the town of Buc, which it joined in the pond of Geneste. Many other water levels decorate the commune: the pond of the Commanderie (Villaroy), the Lake Villaroy, the pond of the Castle (Center Town and Bridge of the Retting pit), the pond of Roussières, (Wild rabbits), the pond of the Large Island (Europe). there exists also the pond of Robert Wood, but it is drained and receives rain water only in the event of violent storm. The territory is partially urbanized and natural spaces were preserved and occupy nearly 50% to the total surface area, 30% for the rural areas shared between a timbered part, mainly the slopes of the valley of the Beaver which belong essentially to the national forest of Versailles (surface of the forest of Versailles east of 1052 hectares), and an agricultural space which occupies the east-south-east part of the commune, 20% for the green areas included in the urbanized part. This urbanized part is articulated in eleven districts.

Climate

Guyancourt as all the Île-de-France is subjected to a degraded oceanic Climat. The localization of the commune within the Paris and its suburbs causes a very light rise in the temperature of one or two degrees according to the climatic conditions compared to the rural areas of Ile-de-France. This variation is particularly notable at daybreak in calm weather and anticyclonic, and the situation tends to be accentuated with the passing of years. The dominant winds of the Western sector relatively protect Yvelines from the peaks of pollution coming from Paris and its small crown. The stormy episodes are rather frequent in summer period.

The annual average temperature is of 10,7°C. The average of annual precipitations is of 695 millimetres

Displacements

Lanes

The communications are ensured by several important road axes:

  • in north, the national 286, to highway characteristics, passes in the North-East of the commune, not far from the exchanger with A12;
  • in the east, the secondary road D91 (which occurred Leon Blum) ensures the North-South exchanges with Versailles and the NR 286 north, and the secondary road D36 in the south,
  • in the west, the secondary road D127 (which occurred of the wild rabbits) provides a similar function between the NR 286 north and D 36 in the south,
  • in the south, the avenue of Europe ensures the East-West exchanges, connecting the two preceding ones and giving access to the west to the Trunk road 10.
All these ways, which are also important axes of the new city, are arranged with two separate roadways.

Public transport

The commune is included/understood in the zone Transport ticket 5, and is primarily served by SQYBUS.

On the railway level, the station nearest is the SNCF railway station of Saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines.

Other stations are also accessible in public transport, mainly:

  • stations of Versailles, in particular SNCF railway station of Versailles-Building sites (zone transport ticket 4), served by the RER C and the lines Transilien NR (Paris-Montparnasse) and U (Paris-Saint-Lazare),
  • the station the RATP of Saint-Rémy-the-Chevreuse, terminus of the line B of the RER.

Moreover, there exists a public transport in exclusive right of way (TCSP). It was brought into service in 2001. First sections of Saint-Quentin in Yvelines preceding the connection " St-Quentin-Massy " considered later on.

Ways two wheels and pedestrian

Routes reserved to the cyclists were arranged in the city. This specific advance makes it possible to circulate in full safety.

History

The Étymologie of the name of Guyancourt is Guy de Chevreuse according to the abbot Jean Lebeuf (1687 - 1760), historian and scholar, member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities founded by Colbert in 1663. Guy de Chevreuse built into 1.065 the village " Guidonis Curtis" , i.e. court, the ground, culture of Guy. But no written text comes to consolidate this analysis of the abbot.

The alternative to the Théorie of Jean Lebeuf is a Germanic origin which results in the " court of Guyan" (firm or village of Widan) or of the Germain Wido (wid it is wood).

The name then contracted in “Guidoncourt”, “Guyoncourt”, “Guyencourt” and finally “Guyancourt” on the Napoleonean Cadastre of 1811.

Prehistory

The site of the city was already inhabited with the Neolithic . These first inhabitants left hundreds of vestiges such as arrows, flint scrapers, polished axes… which were found in Bouviers, Troux and Villaroy”. Certain parts are preserved at the museum of national archeology installed in the Château of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer.

Antiquity

The occupation persisted at the time Roman. Mr Leclère, farmer, showed it in a fortuitous way in 1892 while unearthing in his field of the farm of the Mine, a ballot box going back to this time.

The Middle Ages

The time mérovingienne

Work of restoration of the church Saint-Victor in 1998, put at the day of the Sarcophage S dating from the era mérovingienne (fine Life or beginning 7th century).

Lords of Guyancourt

The first lord of Guyancourt would be the creator of Guyancourt: Guy de Chevreuse according to the abbot Jean Lebeuf. Guy de Chevreuse built in the year the 1065 village " Guidonis Curtis" , i.e. court, the ground, culture of Guy.

Then several lords follow one another until 1693, date on which the king integrates Guyancourt in his large park. The knight Philippe de Guyencourt in 1272. Thillement seraph, secretary of the King, lord of guyencourt but also of Gallye, Herdsmen, the Mine, Valley-St-Benoist and Montigny-the-Small in 1365. Jean de Meillecourt and Etienne Bouchard in 1413, Germain Direct, general of the Currencies, in 1443. Master Guillaume Brinon, Prosecutor at the Parliament in 1463. Robert Piedefer, prosecuting attorney in Châtelet in 1500. Then the Piedefer family reign on the grounds of Guyancourt until 1649, date on which succeed the Bérulle family to them.

Finally in 1693, it is Pierre de Bérulle who sold his field with Louis XIV.

Modern time

Guyancourt and the Castle of Versailles

In 1693, Guyancourt thus forms part of the “Large Park” of the sun king Soleil, which extended around the Château from Versailles. The vocation essential of the neighbouring communes with the great human concentration that is the castle is especially market-gardening, to provide for the important needs for the Court. The Plan of Intendance of 1787 taken again on the site of the Departmental records of Yvelines, presents the " paroisse" as follows: " Surface of the parish (local measurement), 3054 arpents 18 poles, of which: arable lands, 2071 arp. 59 per. ; meadows, 19 arp. 83 per. ; wood, 501 arp. 18 per. ; bts course and gardens, 161 arp. 51 per. ; waste lands, 210 arp. 17 per. ; ways crossroads and rivers, 89 arp.90 per. Elements of land surveying (triangulation, distances, terminals, reference mark, owners bordering - ground on the king, Small park of Versailles, Ladies of St-Cyr, sior Descareau, territory of Saint Louis of Versailles). Limits of the parish underlined in red; part of the wall of the " Small Park of Versailles" materialize this limit. Play of color to distinguish nature from the cultures and the ground. Constructions underlined in red. Identified church (plane on the ground, cross), surrounded of the cemetery. Several hamlets: Herdsmen, Hole (large farm), the Mine, Vilaroy (large farm). Firm of the Commanderie. Windmill represented on its mass with wings and wind vane. Layout of a " rigolle" on the basis of the " Grounds of the roy" in the South, passing by Guyencourt and outgoing of the territory of the parish close to Vilaroy. Enclosing wall of the park of Versailles bored of two doors (Door of the Mine, Carries Desert). Several ponds: mine, pond of Robert Wood (on the territory of Cyr Saint). Fountain of the Goblins (southern edge Herdsmen). The brook of the Goblins crosses of west is the territory of the parish. Source of the Beaver. Castle with Guyencourt with dovecote (quadrilateral surrounded by Ditches and park not drawn surrounded by walls. Orientation: Compass card; flower of lily indicates north. Attempt at restitution of the relief (brown washing). Signature of the land-surveyor: Genty. . "

The first of the ponds of the Mine was created in 1668, on the initiative of Jean-Baptiste Colbert. The pond of the Mine makes party of a general device to feed out of water the park of Versailles, it will be the Rivière of the Sun king. Water of the pond of the Mine will be assembled at the top of the plate of Satory by successive windmills provided with bucket line chains. Then of Satory, water will be conveyed near the current water part of the Swiss ones.

The French revolution

Thanks to the Register of grievances sent to the governmental authorities (1789), we know that Guyancourtois, who were for the majority of modest peasants, lived with difficulty under conditions of famine. Quoted in many school handbooks, the Register of grievances of Guyancourt translates the immense desire of freedom, the will of justice and the refusal of the privileges of pushed people with end.

Contemporary time

The 19th century

An epidemic of Choléra struck the commune of Guyancourt in 1850. One finds trace of this epidemic on a mural plate of the church Saint-Victor indicating that the Chaude abbot raised two furnace bridges in 1854, one to holy Julienne and the other in holy Genevieve as Ex-voto against this epidemic.

The Franco-German war of 1870

France, whose Guyancourt, is partly occupied by the Prussian armies. The enemy spreads terror, the houses are plundered, the maltreated inhabitants. Four hundreds of them (enormous figure for the time) prefer to flee.

Following this cuisante demolished, it is set up the Système Séré de Rivières which allowed in particular the construction of fortifications to defend Paris. It is within this framework that the Batterie of Herdsmen is built in 1879. Occupied by the soldiers until 1932, the fort was rented as from 1933, at the company Hispano Suiza which manufactured ammunition there and proceeded to it to tests of engines and guns. After the Second world war, only the activities of design and driving tests, benches engines, compressors and turbines (in particular that intended for Trans-Siberian connecting Moscow to Vladivostok) were maintained in Guyancourt. Then Hispano Suiza closed this factory in 1990. The site was bought in 1999 with the ministry for Defense. The Battery was transformed into 2006 out of Coffee Musics and thus preserved and opened with the public.

The 20th century

An important agricultural village at the beginning of the century

At the beginning of the 20th century, Guyancourt is a large village where one cultivates the Blé, the Avoine, the Betterave, fodder and the Potato. the farms of Guyancourt dominate the economic space and policy of the commune. With the enumeration of 1901, the population rises with 614 inhabitants, 182 households are placed in 141 houses. The village with him only account 303 inhabitants, the hamlet of Herdsmen is also very important with 133 inhabitants, the Mine represents 116 inhabitants, Troux has 39 of them, finally the Gravels and the crossing level has of them 7 each one. The majority of the villagers live Agriculture, one finds the royal farms with 7 important farmers and 4 more modest farmers. These farms occupy approximately 150 employees (farm laborer, foremen, carters, shepherds, cartwrights, servants…). There exist also the independent ones: 1 shoeing marshal, 2 cartwrights, 1 slag and its assistance. An important civil engineering firm, the Folain house, which recruits its personnel, about 100 people in summer, on the whole of the area to work primarily in Versailles. In Guyancourt work there: 1 engineer (the son-in-law of the owner), 2 clerks, 6 masons, 3 carriers, 1 stone mason with also 6 domestic employees.

Some independent craftsmen also reside at Guyancourt: carpenter, mason, washing machines, nurses and guards of children… Ten workmen of the building work outside the commune as well as ten craftsmen (plumber, sewerman, stove setter, typographer, employed…). The school is ensured by 2 teachers, manpower approach the 50 pupils per class. The majority of the children study up to 13 years to pass the Certificat of primary studies which marks the end of the compulsory schooling. Then the children leave as clerk, waitresses, farmhands, apprentices, servants, farm laborers…, very little continue the studies. Perceiving is also employed by a farmer. The roadway system is maintained by 6 roadmenders, 4 of the commune and 2 of the department. Finally 1 rural policeman ensures the monitoring of the territory and 1 priest represents the Catholic church.

The trade are numerous, with step less than 16 merchants of Vin for 614 inhabitants. This abundance of drink trade is explained in particular by the presence of many soldiers in the area. Those of the plate of Satory attended the trade of the Mine, the 200 soldiers of the Battery of Herdsmen were very close to the hamlets of Herdsmen and Troux and to the center village. The distractions being quasi non-existent, the drink trade thrived.

Some other tradesmen ensure everyday consumption: 1 porkbutcher, 1 baker, 2 grocers (where all is found: coal, gasoline, drapery, preserve…), 1 fish merchant, 1 greengrocer and 1 ragman. The other traditional shops and services are in Versailles: clothing, tools, shoes, mode, doctor…

From 1918 to 1920, the farmer Eugene Henri Pierre Besnard, owner of the farm of Bellebas made build at the exit of the center village, one quoted working. These semi-detached houses, built out of stone of grinding and bricks, were intended to the farm laborers of the farm of Mr Besnard. It is a practice comparable with the industrialists of North, but rather exceptional in the rural world. Henri Besnard was in addition Maire of Guyancourt at that time. His/her son him also with the head of the farm of Bellebas, succeeds a few years as mayor later to him (see the list of the mayors in the paragraph administration). These houses are always visible street of the gravels, only one having been destroyed to carry out the place Hélder Câmara. On postcard Ci against it is the distilling of the farm of the Besnard family. It is about a true factory, built in 1891 and which will function until 1960. After the harvest of beets on the grounds of the farm, those Ci are discharged in the tanks in the foreground from the postcard. After cleanbeing cleaned and washbeing washed, they are cut out. Then it is the fermentation of grinds in tanks, alcohol is extracted by Distillation. The residues are used then for the animal feed.

See also: farms of Guyancourt

The aerodrome of Guyancourt

The Aviation develops in Guyancourt with the construction of the aerodrome of the company Caudron in 1930. July 1st, 1933, the Caudron company, in financial problems, is repurchased by Louis Renault.

August 8th, 1934, with the orders of Caudron-Renault, Helene Boucher removes on the one hand the speed records on 100 km to 412 km/h and on the other hand the record of the 1000 km to the average of 409 km/h. August 11th it allocated the female world records to 445km/heure. But on November 30th, 1934, H. Boucher is killed during a training flight to the order of Caudron " Rafale" .

The aerodrome is used for the turning of many films:

The aerodrome of Guyancourt will be closed on October 1st, 1989 for safety reasons. On the old tracks part of the districts of Villaroy and Europe are built today. Denominations of the streets (Jacqueline Auriol, Roland Garros…) and of public equipment (Gymnasium of Aviation, Saint-Exupéry school…) are the last vestiges of this adventure.

See also: the aerodrome of Guyancourt

Wars
the First World War

The war of 1914-1918 cost the life thirty-six Guyancourtois.

the Second world war

In Robert Wood, a Stèle is set up in memory of Jean Lanot and Jean Roger Allviger shot on August 23rd, 1944 by the Nazis. This place of memory is located at the site where were summarily carried out these two resistant members of the French Forces of the interior. Jean Lanot had 22 years and Jean Roger Allviger 25 years. A street of Herdsmen bear the names of these two resistant. This same day they is Voisins Bretonneux which is released after violent one engagements in the streets of the village. The staff sergeant Jean Vourc' H and the marsoin Danton Jouglard will lose the life there. A commemorative plaque on the war memorial of Neighbors pays homage to these soldiers. The engagements continue, German being cut off in the aerodrome from Guyancourt, they will be dislodged by it by the the 2nd armor-plated division of Leclerc on August 24th. Paris is finally released on August 25th, 1944.

End of the century
Starting from the beginning of the Years 1950, the Paris region knows a considerable population growth. The development of the first Town planning and Master development plan (SDAU) was entrusted by the general De Gaulle to Paul Delouvrier, acting general with the District of the Area of Paris of 1961 to 1969, which was for this reason regarded as the father of the new cities.

It is decided to create several new Ville S around Paris. To the west of Paris, the choice was made on the site of Saint-Quentin, at the time very little urbanized, except the small town of Trappes. It is besides the pond of Saint-Quentin, located at Trappes which is at the origin of the name of the New City whose Guyancourt will make party. Thereafter the Trade union of Agglomeration of the New City of Saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines was transformed into Communauté of agglomeration on January 1st, 2004.

In 1950 Guyancourt is only one small village. The commune will grow in an important way as from 1970 to reach in 2007 the figure of 28.600 inhabitants approximately while offering more than 24.000 employment.

Town planning

August 1st

Eleven districts of Guyancourt

  • District of the Center Town, the first of them, corresponding to the old village.

  • Quartier of Herdsmen the history of the hamlet particularly rich and is varied. It begins with the Neolithic , passes by the vault to Sainte Beard, a farm with the multiple owners whose Louis XIV, the Oberkampf industrialist who invests to control the source of the Beaver, a battery and one fears military built at the 19th century, the cigognards which replace the soldiers at the 20th century… to lead today to a primarily residential district dominating the valley of the Beaver.

    See also: Herdsmen

  • District of the Wild rabbits ,

  • District of Europe ,

  • District of the Bridge of the Retting pit ,

  • District of the Willows ,

  • District of the Park ,

  • District of the Oaks ,

  • District of the Wild boars : the origin of its denomination, has nothing to do with the Sanglier S of the national forest of Versailles, however near. Indeed its origin comes from the term Anglier , place says correspondent to a zone of ground cleared in a forest in the form of a re-entrant angle. Anglier transformed himself into Wild boar thereafter. This new district, built on old arable lands, accommodates only offices of large companies of which the international company Bouygues.

  • District of the Mine , This district accommodates in particular the ponds of the Mine, a sector of dwelling organized initially around the firm royal of the Mine, agricultural land used primarily by the INRA.

    See also: Ponds of the Mine

  • Quartier of Villaroy the last builds districts of the city

The zones of activity occupy approximately 15% of the territory and accommodate primarily tertiary sector: offices, seats of company, of which Bouygues ( Challenger ), research centres (INRA the Mine, Technocentre Renault).

Demography

August 1st

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Administration

The district

Guyancourt belongs to the First district of Yvelines . This district is made up of the four following cantons: Canton of Versailles-North: 32.177 inhabitants, Canton of Versailles-North-West: 28.585 inhabitants, Canton of Viroflay: 15.211 inhabitants, Canton of Montigny-le-Bretonneux: 60.295 inhabitants. Etienne Pinte was elected appointed by it UMP, at the time of the last elections of June 2007. Mr Pinte is in addition the mayor of Versailles.

The Operation of National interest of Massy Palaiseau Saclay Versailles Saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines

The Opération of national interest (OIN) of Massy-Palaiseau Saclay Versailles Saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines is an Operation of National interest from which the territory thus extends on 49 communes Guyancourt, which aims at setting up a project of installation leant with a scientific project for the balanced development of this territory in the next decades.

The department

The department of Yvelines was created in 1968, resulting to some extent of the Seine-et-Oise. Jehan Despert can be regarded as the “father” of Yvelines, because it is him which suggested with Gaston Palewski, then president of the General advice of Seine-et-Oise, the name of this department during its creation, in reference to the antique forest of Yvelines, whose Forêt of Rambouillet is the relic and from where radiate the majority of the rivers which irrigate this territory

The Canton of Montigny-le-Bretonneux gathers the towns of Montigny-le-Bretonneux and Guyancourt. With more than 60.000 inhabitants it is one of most important in France. The elected official of this canton is Roland Nadaus (PS). The president of the general advice of Yvelines east Pierre Bedier (UMP).

Community of agglomeration

Guyancourt constitutes with six other communes (Elancourt, the Canopy, Magny-the-Hamlets, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Trappes and Neighbors-the-Bretonneux) the agglomeration of Saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines, Ville of art and history. The Trade-union Committee of the Community of Agglomeration is composed representatives elected by the municipal councils of the 7 communes.

The community of agglomeration manages economic development, the information system strategic plan of transport, the local program of the habitat, the Politique of the city and the equipment of Community interest like the theater of Saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines or the network of the Media libraries. It manages also the large infrastructures: roadway system, networks and green areas.

The city ensures the management of the equipment and the organization of the services set up to meet the needs for the inhabitants, of teaching to the roadway system, while passing by early childhood, the sport, the culture, social protection…

The president of the Communauté of agglomeration is Robert Cadalbert (PS), in addition assistant mayor of Guyancourt.

The commune of Guyancourt

The town hall is located 14, rue Ambroise-Croizat in the downtown area. A city hall annex is located in the district of the Willows at 23, boulevard Paul Cézanne. The municipal police accommodates the public with 14, rue Ambroise-Croizat in the buildings of the old town hall.

Elected officials of Guyancourt

August 1st

The municipal council since 2001 is composed of 30 elected officials of the list of plural left " Guyancourt For Tous" and 5 elected officials of the list " Guyancourt Ensemble".

Worships

  • Catholic church. the faithful ones of the parish are accommodated to the Saint-Victor church in the downtown area. The course Saint-Jacob located road of Troux in the district of the Wild rabbits is a reception center and prayers of the diocese of Versailles.

  • Church reformed of France. located at 3 allée Simard with Montigny-le-Bretonneux.

  • Synagog. located 10, rue Albert-Joly at Versailles.

The town of Guyancourt counts two Cimetière S: the cemetery " ancien" downtown area located between the street of the drain and street Jean Maillier and the landscape cemetery located street of the mill at Renard in the district of the Bridge of the Retting pit. Initially the cemetery was located around the Saint-Victor church until the XIX century old middle. It is a decree of June 14th, 1854, signed by Napoleon III, who authorized the commune to move the cemetery street of the Drain.

Environment

The décheterrie, located street Jacqueline Auriol, is free open to the inhabitants of Guyancourt, on presentation of an identity paper and a document in proof of residence. The craftsmen and the tradesmen can deposit there their professional waste for a participation of 31,88 € per m3. On the other hand the industrialists do not have access there and must use the filères which theirs are clean.

Culture

August 1st

Inheritance

Guyancourt constitutes with six other communes (Elancourt, the Canopy, Magny-the-Hamlets, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Trappes and Neighbors-the-Bretonneux) the agglomeration of Saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines which received the label Ville of art and history allotted by the Ministère of the Culture.

Old inheritance

  • the church Saint-Victor is registered with the additional inventory of the historic buildings since January 11th, 1951. The bell of 1557, remelted in 1900, is classified since April 27th, 1944. The building is of style Gothic, the walls are out of stone of grinding. On the other hand the structures and the decorative pieces are out of limestone. Construction dates from the 12th century for the base of the bell-tower. In addition during the work of rehabilitation completed by the commune in 1998, three Sarcophagus S of the VI or VII centuries attesting of an old cemetery are updated.

    See also: Church Saint-Victor

  • the battery of Herdsmen , old military battery built in 1879, was transformed into 2006 out of Coffee Musics and thus preserved and opened with the public. The design of this rehabilitation is the work of the architects Ivan Franic and Michel Garcin.

    See also: Battery of Herdsmen

  • Seven large farms existed on the territory of Guyancourt. Whole or part of the buildings of those Ci are preserved and reconverted in: residences (Châteauneuf), arts center (Beautiful Plays about), pertaining to worship space (Cape Saint Jacques in Trou), buildings of teaching and research (second farm of Hole), offices (the Mine) or remains simply a farm (Villaroy and Bouviers).

    See also: farms of Guyancourt

Contemporary architectural heritage

Architects of reputation built in the town of Guyancourt of the residences, public equipment, the head offices or the office buildings:
  • Jean-Marie Charpentier carried out many office buildings in the district of the Park, boulevard Vauban and around the roundabout of the Human rights whose offices “Rebirth” in 2001,
  • Massimiliano Fuksas built, in 1991, the House of the Communication located Vauban boulevard,
  • Renzo Piano Italian architect, built in 1991 the site Thalès (ex Thomson) in the district of Europe, Piano is famous in France for the National center of art and culture Georges-Pompidou.
  • Dominique Perrault built into 1991 of the residences on the Vauban boulevard. This architect acquired an international repute by gaining the contest of the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand of Paris.
  • Roland Castro and Sophie Denissof carried out residences street Le Corbusier in the district of Villaroy,
  • Alexandre Chemetoff with Pierre Gangnet carried out, in 1982, the school complex Georges Brassens - Francis Poulenc located place Jacques Brel in the district of the Wild rabbits,
  • Daniel Kahane built, in 1999, with J. - C. Brehier and A. Rouvray the Training institute of the Rooms of Agriculture (IFCA) located 1 rue Robert-Arnaud d'Andilly in the district of Villaroy,
  • Manolo Nunez-Yanowsky built in 1992, the Caryatids in the district of Villaroy, (the caryatids are the name given to the columns in the shape of women in the ancient Greece)
  • Gilles Bouchez built, in 1990, the gymnasium of the Human rights in the district of the Willows.
  • Antoine Grumbach . realized in 2002, the university buildings located Boulevard of Alembert auparavent it had carried out into 1993 those located Boulevard Vauban in the district of the Park.
  • Kevin Rock American architect and prize winner of the Price Pritzker, realized in 1988 the Challenger building ordered by Francis Bouygues, seat of the Bouygues company located which occurred Eugene Freyssinet in the district of Wild boars.
  • J. Ripault and D. Duhart realized in 2005 the college library of Guyancourt.
The Technocentre Renault of a surface of about 600.000 m2 and accommodating 12.000 employees, was carried out by several French great architects:
  • Denis Valode and Jean Pistre built, in 1996, " Ruche" who is the heart of the Technocentre Renault,
  • Philippe Chaix and Jean-Paul Morel constructed two buildings: botany and the northern projection side, which gathers all the activities of preliminary draft: development and research, design…
  • Jacques Ferrier carried out the tuning fork for all that relates to the quality of the products,
  • J. Brownish and E. Salt maker carried out the laboratories, where one applies to the study of materials and the chemical processes.
  • H. Fricourt carried out the autoservice,
  • J. - P. Hamonic, the work's council,
  • J. - F. Schmit, the logistic unit,
  • J. - B. Lacoudre carried out the transfer and the power station.

Works of art in public space

Sculptors intervened on various sites of the city:

  • In 1982, Klaus Schultz carried out in the district of the Park a monumental brick sculpture. That Ci accounts for two giant with table in reference to the hotel college located in the vicinity places François Rabelais.
  • Philolaos carried out the garden of Gogottes in the district of Villaroy. Gogottes are animals imagined by the sculptor Tloupas Philolaos while taking as a starting point a book of Babar. A wire of stainless steel connecting Gogottes make it possible to saunter in the garden. With proximity, the frontages of the buildings which surround part of the garden of Gogottes are decorated caryatids inspired of Venus de Milo (architect: Manolo Nunez-Yanowsky). Philolaos also carried out the sculpture of the place Don Helder Camara representing a flower .
  • Marc Giai-Pussy and François Cau carried out in 2000 in the district of Europe near the pond of the Windmill work Guetteurs .
  • Marta Pan , in 1992, integrated its monumental sculptures, the Prospect , in the architecture of public spaces located Boulevard Vauban. With its arcs of circle and its dancing waters, the Prospect connects the commercial district of Saint Quentin with the urban Carré drawn by the artist Dani Karavan in 1999 and located in the Park of the Sources of the Beaver. This park of the Sources, works of Paul Soun (landscape designer) and Bertrand Lemoine (architect), is the green hyphen of the districts of the Park, the Willows and the Wild rabbits.

    See also: Park of the Sources of the Beaver

  • In the Park of the Sources of the Beaver, in addition to the Prospect for Marta Side and the urban Square of Dani Karavan, from many sculptures carried out into 1977 come to consolidate this installation: the bird of the Rumanian sculptor Romance Victor , sculpture out of brass of Patrick Guérard, Ascendance obliques of Bérard, steel sculpture of Marcel Dupertuis, gray marble Fontaine of Ladislas Schwartz.
  • Pierre Nicouleau carried out in 1996 the wave of light . It is a monumental sculpture located on the visual axis connecting the Church Victor Saint and the Hive of Technocentre. The wave is located on the esplanade between the pond of Villaroy and the garden of Gogottes de Philolaos.
  • In 1985, Gerard Mannoni carried out a fountain places Jacques Brel.
  • the Wind mill in the district of the willows, places Seurat, is a work of Marcel Van Thienen carried out in 1986. It is a mobile stainless steel sculpture, composed of 5 pale which turns to the liking of the winds.
  • Always in the district of the Willows, one finds on the place of the trade the Grande Wind vane realized in 1988 by the Spanish sculptor Jose Subirà-Puig . It is also a monumental sculpture, covered of wood on a steel reinforcement, symbol of a large butterfly whose wings turn to the liking of the wind.
  • Alliance realized in 1996 by the sculptor Serge Homs , is located place of the prefect Claude Erignac at the connection between the center town, historical heart of Guyancourt and the last born of the districts of Villaroy carried out in 1995. Alliance symbolizes the union of the districts of the city.
  • Initi which means sun in language quechua, is a work carried out in 2006 by the artist Giannina Lanata-Ricard of Péruvienne origin. This sculpture is located which occurred of May 8th, 1945 in the district of the Oaks.
  • In the landscape cemetery located street of the Mill at Fox, near the garden of the memory, is set up since 1996 a sculpture of Japanese Yukichi Inoué .

Green areas

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Images of Guyancourt

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  • Pierre Curie (May 15th, 1859 in Paris - April 19th, 1906 in Paris) wrote in connection with its walks with the ponds of the Mine: “Yes, I would always remember with recognition wood the Mine! It is of all the corners that I saw, that which I liked the most and where I was happiest. I often left the evening, and I went up the valley, I returned with twenty ideas at the head… ”. Newspaper of Pierre Curie at Gallimard.

  • the Frères Caudron installed their company in particular on the aerodrome of Guyancourt. July 1st, 1933 the Caudron company in financial problems, was repurchased by the group Renault.

  • Helene Boucher (Paris, May 23rd 1908 - Guyancourt, November 30th 1934) is a French aviatrice . It beat many speed records in the plane between July and November 1934. The November 11th 1934 it reaches the world records on 1000 km with 444 km/h. She dies a few days later in an accident on the plane Caudron Rafale , during a training flight in the forest of the Vallée of Mérantaise close to Guyancourt.

  • André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884 - 1974) is a painter and Illustrateur French. He painted several paintings of the landscapes guyancourtois. One of its tables representing the village and the church Saint Victor is exposed in the room of the council of the Town hall.

  • Roland Nadaus was born in 1945 in Paris. He is poet, writer, lampoonist, storyteller, lyric writer, novelist… site perso. He is the author of about thirty works. He also assumed several mandates of mayor, general adviser, and President of the urban community (then called the SAN, trade union of new agglomeration).

Twinnings

Twin town with:

Economy

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Guyancourt presents an economic fabric of 916 establishments is more than 24.000 employment. The city posts a relatively low unemployment rate of 4,1% at March 1st, 2003, much lower than the national rate.

Guyancourt accommodates not only many SME and trade, but also several large companies with the international and national radiation, such as:

Teaching

Elementary teaching

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Secondary education

  • College S
  • ARIANE College: 1, Place des brothers Neighbor.
  • College of the Willows: Email of the willows.
  • College Paul Eluard: 2, Rue des gravels.
  • College S
  • College of Villaroy: 2, Rue Eugène Viollet Le Duc.
  • College of hotel trade and tourism: Place François Rabelais.

Higher education and research

  • Guyancourt accommodates part of the university of Versailles-Saint-Quentin. The buildings located in the commune relate to the lesson of the rights and the social sciences, Médecine.
  • One also finds there research laboratories of INRA (National institute of the agronomic research)
  • It is envisaged the establishment, on the ground of the old farm of Troux in the district of the Wild rabbits of the Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL): Observatory of Sciences of the Universe. In 2009,250 to 300 researchers and engineers sciences of the universe to a few hundred meters of the university will study.
  • the Training institute of the Rooms of Agriculture (IFCA) offers its permanent training services to 1 rue Robert-Arnaud d'Andilly in the district of Villaroy.

Sports

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The sport in figures: 7.000 bachelors attend the sports grounds, the gymnasia, the shooting, football, game of bowls, tennis courts to the arc… of the city thanks to the 36 sports associations which propose forty activities.

The gymnasia stages and swimming pools are used 140.400 hours per annum. The five stages profit from a 1.200 hours occupation per annum.

A hundred grass sportsmen are assiduous at the council school of the sports.

The swimming pool Andree-Pierre Vienot gains accommodates 134.500 visitors annually. It is open 340 days per annum.

Sporting events

  • Open of France of Golf
The Open one of France is oldest and the most important tournament of golf of continental Europe. It is in 1906, with the golf of Paris - become since Boulie - which is held the first International Championship of Open France. It is gained by Arnaud Massy. The Open one of France is an official test of PGA Tour European. It disputes from now on each year towards the end of June on the course of the Albatross of the national golf with Guyancourt. In 2006, for the centenary of the tournament, the equipment of the test was of 4 million euros, it is John Bickerton which gained the test, in front of Padraig Harrington and Michael Campbell. The Open one of France 2007 was held from June 28th to July 1st and it is Graeme Storm, the winner. Guyancourt accommodated in 2007, from August 20th to 24th, and for the fifth time, the departure and the arrival of the Paris-Brest-Paris, the most important tourist-cycling excursion of the World with 5300 participants of 36 countries.

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