Moisselles

Moisselles is a commune of the Val-d'Oise located in the Pays of France, to approximately 20 km in the north of Paris.

The commune is bordering on Domont, Bouffémont, Baillet-in-France, Attainville and Ézanville.

Its inhabitants are Moissellois (be).

Geography

Moisselles is a village-street located on banks of the Petit Rosne and on the road Paris - Amiens, in the middle of the flat of France. The borough is circumvented by the west since 1959 by the Trunk road 1.

The Station of Bouffémont - Moisselles, on the line Paris - Persan by Montsoult is located on the commune of Bouffémont.

History

The origin of the name of Moisselles is unknown.

Oldest written mention date of 832 in a charter of the Abbey of Saint-Denis, “Muscilla”, become later Moiscelles.

The village lives primarily since its origins of the cereal culture. Its surface is very reduced, and no lord never resided at it.

At the 18th century, the construction of the royal road, become Trunk road 1, causes the relay installation of of station, which counted to 110 horses. The village, in addition to agriculture, saw road with its coffees and its hotels, to the opening of the railway and the inauguration of the station in 1877.

In 1933 is based by the flying-club of the Ailerons of Enghien-Moisselles (founded in 1931) the Aérodrome of Enghien-Moisselles on the ground of a farmer, old driver of the First World War. In the Years 1970, two allotments are built then small buildings which cause an increase in the population. The hospital, the industrial park built along the trunk road, and a great shopping mall (Leclerc) towards Domont constitute the essence of the economic activity of the commune.

Administration

Ézanville belongs to the jurisdiction of authority of Écouen, and great authority as well as trade of Pontoise.

Demography

Transport

Moisselles is served by the station of Bouffémont - Moisselles, on the network Transilien Paris-North, branches Paris-North - Persan-Beaumont/Luzarches. The station is served at a rate of a slow train to the 1/4 of hour in off-peak hours and at the same frequency in rush hours, the trains being on the other hand direct of Paris with Sarcelles - Saint-Brice. The service road is reduced to a slow train to the 1/2 hour in evening (after 20:30). It is necessary from 23 to 28 mn of way starting from the station of North.

Monuments and places of visit

the church Saint-Maclou date of 1574. The chorus Renaissance was built by Nicolas de Saint-Michel. It shelters a tombstone of a lady of Attainville, a lectern out of wooden carved of the 17th century and a stone Virgin of the 18th century. Built on an unstable argillaceous ground, the church gives serious signs of depression; its bell-tower leans since 1842.

The house of Hector Malot (street of the mill) where the writer lived dates from first half of the 19th century.

The hospital replaces the relay of station. Initially transformed into penal settlement, it becomes a psychiatric hospital in 1901, military hospital during the war 1914-1918, then again psychiatric hospital it bears from now on the name of Hospital Roger PROVOST (in memory of the one of its administrator and mayor of Villeneuve Garenne) since 2000.

The cross of Saint-Lubin is built on the site of the old Saint-Lubin vault.

Personalities related to the commune

The writer Hector Malot (1830 - 1907), author of Without family , resided part of his life at Moisselles.

The Holy-Beuve family formerly had there a property, which was yielded to make the current hospital there.

See too

Internal bonds

Common Countries of France
of the Val-d'Oise

Notes, sources and references

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