Meulan

Meulan is a common department of the Yvelines, in the area Île-de-France, in France, located at approximately 17 km in the east of Mantes-the-Pretty.

The name of Meulan comes from the Latin Mediolanum , the plain of the medium (as Milan but not as Melun whose Latin name is Metlosedum or Melodunum ).

To avoid possible confusions with Melun (Seine-et-Marne), the municipal council plans to rename the commune “the Meulan-on-Seine”, choice ratified by the population, which preferred it in “Meulan-in-Yvelines”, during a local consultation in September 2003.

The inhabitants of Meulan are Meulanais.

Geography

It is a small town located in edge of the Seine, opposite the Mureaux, to 40 km in the west of Paris. Meulan is the chief town of the canton of the same name. It belongs to the community of Vexin-Seine communes

The commune is bordering on the Be worth-on-Seine in the east, the Mézy-on-Seine and Hardricourt in the west and on Tessancourt-on-Bus shelter and Évecquemont in north. In the south, it is separated from Mureaux by the Seine, which crosses a road bridge, the Bridge the Rhine and the Danube rebuilds in 1957. The communal territory includes two island S of the Seine, the island of the Fort and the island Belle. Meulan is served by the railway line Paris-Saint-Lazare - Mantes-the-Pretty via Conflans-Holy-Honorine (stations of '' Meulan-Hardricourt '' and '' Thun-the-Paradise '').

History

Heraldic

In the beginning, Meulan is a river port on the Seine, and a Gallic commercial counter, located at the border between the Véliocasses at north and the Carnutes in the south.

Towards Xe century, it is the capital of the counts de Meulan. The city is joined together with the royal Domaine in 1204 by Philippe Auguste.

Olivier the Deer received the county of Meulan.

Field of the circle of the veil of Paris, the water level of Meulan was selected to accommodate the tests of water sport of the Olympic Games of summer of 1900. This same water level again accommodated the tests of water sport of the Olympic Games of summer of 1924.

In 1970, creation of city HLM of the Paradise.

Demography

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Administration

List mayors:

Brigitte Gros until 1985
Marie-Therese Pirolli (1985-1994)
Guy Pear tree (1994 - 2007)

Economy

Meulan is characterized by a dense commercial economic fabric, primarily due to its historical past of point of required passage of the itinerants between Vexin and the valley of the Seine. Thus, Meulan offers a diversity of trade of mouth, craft industry in any kind and commercial signs of bigger size established in periphery where space authorizes the establishment of this type of trade. Meulan also develops a tertiary sector turned towards hotel trade and the services.

Its economy is fragile because of weak surface of the commune.

Culture

Architectural heritage

Saint Nicolas's Day Church: built towards 1150 stone, but it is partly remade and increased during the centuries. The bell-tower, which was elevated in 1889, subsided.

Old bridge of XIIe century: the bridge with the Poles, or small bridge, to which it misses four arches, is classified historic building. It goes back to 1150.

Personalities related to the commune

Jean-Paul Bignon (1762-1743), abbot, member of the French Academy, senior civil servant of the State, preacher of Louis XIV and librarian of the king, died with Meulan where it had his residence in the Belle island.
Sophie de Condorcet (1764-1822), woman of letters French, born in Meulan
Claude Ursule Gency (1765-1845), General French of the Revolution and the Empire, born in Meulan, it defended its birthplace against the Cossacks in 1814. Its tomb is in the communal cemetery.
Georges Nicolas Marie Létang (1788 -? ), general French born in Meulan. Its tomb is in the communal cemetery.
Etienne Arnal (1794-1872), French actor, born in Meulan.
Adolphe d' Archiac (1802-1868), geologist and paleontologist French. Its body was found in the Seine with Meulan in 1869.
Brigitte Gros (1925-1985), political woman and French woman of letters, former mayor of Meulan.
David Douillet, judoka, married on April 14th, 2001 with Meulan, where it resides.

See too

Common of Yvelines
French Vexin
Counts de Meulan
Images of Meulan

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