Marly-the-King
See also: Marly
Marly-the-King is a Commune Frenchwoman, located in the department of the Yvelines and the area Île-de-France.
Its inhabitants is called the Marlychois or, more rarely, the Marlésiens .
Geography
The commune of Marly-the-King is located at approximately fifteen kilometers at the west of Paris, at less than ten km in the north of Versailles and also less than five km in the south of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer. It is built on a kind of headland downwards and in north of the plate of the Heart-Wheel on which was the castle now disappeared. The aforementioned headland dominates of approximately 150 meters the valley of the the Seine more in north. The urbanization is concentrated in the northern half of the communal territory, the southern half being mainly covered by the national forest of Marly.The communes bordering on Marly-the-King are the Port-Marly in the North-East, Louveciennes in the east, That-Saint-Cloud in south-east, Bailly in the south, the Pond-the-City in the west, Mareil-Marly in the North-West and Pecq in north.
The commune is skirted, within its limit is, by the Trunk road 186 which connects Versailles to Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, crossed by the secondary road 7 which makes it possible to join, in the north, Pecq then Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer and, in the south, Bailly then Saint-Cyr-the School and skirted, within its western limit, by the secondary road 161 which connects Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer with the Pond-the-City and Villepreux.
In the railway plan, the commune is served by the Gare of Marly-the-King located on the line Paris-Saint-Lazare - Defense - Saint-Name-the-Bretèche.
The commune gathers five districts:
- Old Marly-Shades-Monbâti, with private mansions of the XVIIIe century and the Saint-Vigor church, built with the XVIIe century;
- Martin Plate-Orchard-Vauillons-Wood, with these houses, and the park Jean Witold;
- Large-Grounds, residential district;
- Montval, with its gymnasium, its school complex and its library;
- slopes, including/understanding the old hamlet of Montval.
History
The name of the city comes from Mairilacus , first denomination of the place in 697 under the reign of Childebert IV.Marly is property of the lords of Montmorency until its acquisition by Louis XIV in 1676 which made there build by Jules Hardouin-Mansart “his” Château of Marly, more close friend that Versailles and where it will be able to be devoted to the personal pleasures. The castle, located on the plate of the Flying Heart , is fed out of water by the Machine of Marly and the Aqueduc of Louveciennes and the northern end are decorated of a basin, downwards, on the level of the village, and of an immense feeding trough where the riders can enter with their mountings! This basin will be decorated, under Louis XV, by the two famous horses of Marly carved in 1745 by Guillaume Coustou. In 1789, the castle is plundered by the Révolutionnaire S and is left with the abandon. In 1794, the village is renamed by the Révolution Marly-the-Machine (although this one is located on the commune of Bougival) and the horses “are subtilized” to be installed with Paris on the Place of the Harmony then placed at the entry of the Avenue of the Fields-Élysées in 1795. Today, they are with the shelter of the bad weather to the Musée of Louvre in the court Marly of the wing Richelieu .
In 1799, an industrialist buys the castle with the abandonment and installs workshops of spinning mill in the commun runs. Failed, this industrialist not finding to yield the castle in the state of advanced decay, dismantles it and sells the stones like stones of them to be built. In 1806, the field passes between the hands of the administration of National Forestry Commission.
The impressionist period sees the village, following the example those of Bougival, Louveciennes or Croissy, to attract the painters like Sisley or Pissaro like poets, writers and sculptors.
Demography
Demographic trends
Small village of approximately 6 000 hearts until the middle of the 20th century, the common one saw its population increasing significantly with two important enlargings:
- construction, starting from 1958, of the collective residential whole of the Grandes Grounds makes pass the population of Marly to 12.000 inhabitants in 1964.
- between 1968 and 1964, new increase in 5.000 hearts with the construction of the field of Montval .