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Hérouville-Saint-Clearly is a common French, located in the department of the Calvados and the area Basse-Normandie.

It is a city of the North-West of the France, in the suburbs of Caen.

Until 1957, it was called simply Hérouville .

Its inhabitants is called the Hérouvillais .

Demography

Hérouville-Saint-Clearly experienced a very fast development which made of it the most important suburbs of Caen. Simple village at the beginning of the Years 1960, the commune passed from less 2 000 inhabitants with almost 25 000 in less than fifteen years. This figure varied little since 1975. This growth is in particular due on arrival of many immigrant families of North Africa, Black Africa or Europe of the south. This character pluriculturel forging mill identity of the city, reinforced by an important and dynamic associative fabric. Economically, the commune has social indicators which can worry, with in particular a very strong unemployment rate of the young people, and of the same in the adult population, having taken face the successive economic disasters of the Caen-native agglomeration (SMN, Moulinex).

History

The commune was born from the fusion of two hamlets " Clear St of érouville" and " Saint hones érouville". The name of the commune would come from the mixture of the " root; villa" and of a Germanic name of origin. Holy Hérouville clearly remained a village of the plain of Caen without unspecified characteristic until 1963.

With beginning of the year 60, in front of the need for increasing the Caen-native agglomeration, Hérouville is retained to accommodate the new residences of the zone. The first stone of the new city is posed in 1963, launching the constuction of the first modern district: Beautiful Doors.

The " Large Parc" and " High Folie" are born in continuity. The construction of the new city will last until 1978. The old village, remained such as it is becomes a district named " Bourg". The town hall will remain there until 1987 before moving its buildings in the center town lately built.

Political history

From 1971 to 2001, François GEINDRE was the first magistrate of the commune. He will try to make lose at the city his image of " dortoir" city; by equipping it with cultural equipment (cinema, theater…) and by making all the efforts to attract trade. In 1987, he undertakes the construction of the " Douce" citadel; , the center town, in which it installs the town hall and some trade.

Of an architectural aspect with a resolutely contemporary bias, even if it takes as a starting point the medieval design of an urban center with the town hall like castle, the church, also of the cultural places the such library, the cinema " coffee of the images" and the theater. In spite of these efforts, the center town will remain a great place gray and deserted, the commercial arcade very close remaining the true place to exchange and meeting to hérouvillais (and of good of others).

If one can retain of the five mandates of François Geindre a certain propensity with megalomania (in particular the disproportionate project to build a tower of one hundred meters in the middle of the city, abandoned following the hostility of managed), one will be able especially to stress the enormous work of integration of the many ethnos groups of the city.

The last mandate nevertheless was obscured by problems in particular with the regional court of the accounts, in the business of the too broad distribution of subsidies to many associations of the city, and also in the business of " the ligne" : a line of squares of glass which crosses the city, idea based on a hyphen, in which each inhabitant was to deposit an object characteristic of his time. That was a failure, the inhabitants not adhering to the project, many squares pre-being filled in an artificial way by small stereotyped objects multiplying… Pire ad infinitum, the procedure of government contracts was not observed, and that was pointed by the Regional court of the accounts. In the duration, this architectural element was the subject of severe degradations, first of all carefully repaired (but at prohibitory cost) but since the degraded squares are filled only with simple trimmed concrete…

In 2001, following the decision of F Geindre not to request the vote of the voters, the list PS carried out by Jangui the CARPENTIER had to face the second turn with triangular with a list MRC carried out by Serge Lézement and a list " apolitique" carried out by Rodolphe Thomas. In this configuration, it was with Rodolphe Thomas to govern the destinies of the city.

Structure

Most of the built city is currently the fact of the city new, founded in 1963.Les architects who had conceived the plans of the city are known to have been of the innovators in the history of the French contemporary architecture. They are in particular large contemporary signatures such as Jean Nouvel, Massimiliano Fuksas (residence hall Flora Tristan), Alain Provost, Roland Castro, Christian de Portzamparc. The town planning to which them creativity had given free course combined green areas and the pedestrian spaces prohibited with the road traffic or allowed in the same district an architectural co-education with in particular côtoiement of buildings and houses and the presence in their centers of shopping malls of proximity.

Administration

The Canton of Hérouville-Saint-Clearly (Caen-5) (commonly called “canton of Hérouville-Saint-Clearly”), includes/understands only part of the commune. The other part is attached to the Canton of Caen-6 (also called “canton of Caen-Hérouville” in the language running).

Teaching

Hérouville-Saint-Clearly is known for his Collège Experimental College, usually called the Key, school created in 1982. In addition, Hérouville includes/understands also a general high school, the college Salvador Allende. Moreover, there is the college Rabelais which will move on the commune of Yews about 2010.
On account also 3 public colleges (without counting the College experimental college of Hérouville-Saint-Clearly), Pierre Daniel Huet, Pierre Varignon and François de Boisrobert as well as a private college Saint Michel.

Hérouville-St-Clearly also comprises in its center three residence halls of the CROUS, located at the entry of the city, near the water tower, and whose 1008 residences can accommodate more than 1200 students:

the city Jean Grémillon, whose five buildings date from the end of the year 1960.
the residence André Breton whose construction dates from the years 1994-1995.
the residence Flora Tristan, built at the same time as the André Breton residence.

Transport

The town of Hérouville contains a network of bus and tram which makes it possible to move to join the town of Caen as well as other cities in the neighborhoods. The involved tram line is the line B which joined the district of the Grace of God on other side of Caen.

The city is also served by the Ring road of Caen which makes it possible to move anywhere in the Caen-native agglomeration in a minimum of time.

In the east starts D 515,4 ways, which makes it possible to join the port city of Ouistreham in ten minutes.

Places and monuments

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