Montlignon

Montlignon is a common French, located in the department of the Val-d'Oise and the area Île-de-France. Its inhabitants is called Montlignonnais (be).

Located in a relatively boxed valley of the Forest of Montmorency and in spite of its progressive integration at the Paris and its suburbs, the commune with the marked residential character preserved its village structure with, around its place and of its fountain, the town hall, the church and the schools, in a green and not very dense environment of orchards crowned by the forest.

Geography

Montlignon is a small commune in residential matter located in the Vallée of Montmorency, with 18 kilometers in the north of Paris. It is located in a small “canyon” exposed to the south, surrounded by the Forêt of Montmorency on the heights which it separates in two equal parts.

The commune is bordering on Saint-Price, Eaubonne, Margency, Andilly and Domont.

Geology

The village rests on a sandy ground which surmounts a layer of marl. It protects the subjacent layer of gypsum from the water infiltrations, preventing its dissolution what allows its underground working. The infiltration and surface waters, retained by the marl, form a named underground layer “perched tablecloth”. The latter, by buffer effect, delays the freezing of the ground in the event of temperatures lower than 0°C.

Hydrography

The communal territory is crossed by two small rivers: the Ru of Enghien and the Ru of Corbon .
The Ru of Enghien length a 14,2 kilometers is born in forest in the North-West from the commune and is thrown in the the Seine after having crossed, having channeled essentially, the territories of Eaubonne, Enghien-the-Baths and Épinay-sur-Seine and having fed the pond of hunting upstream, in forest, then the Lac of Enghien downstream. The Ru of Corbon is also born in forest in the west from the village before joining the Ru of Enghien with Montlignon, with height of 149 rue de Paris, after a course of 3,9 kilometers.

The commune is fed out of water by the station of treatment of Méry-on-Oise, managed by the company Veolia Environnement. The drinking water with Montlignon is of very good quality bacteriological, containing few Nitrates, being little fluorinated and become relatively little Calcaire since the installation of the Nanofiltration in 1999 with the factory of distribution. Distributed water is of surface origin, coming from the filtration of water of the Oise.

Communication network

The most important ways which cross the commune are two roads secondary.

The secondary Road 144 connects Montmorency to Saint-Leu-the-Forest by the north of the Vallée of Montmorency while following a East-West axis. After having cut the septentrional third of Soisy-sous-Montmorency and the south of Andilly, it entirely crosses Margency before forming the southernmost limit of Montlignon with Eaubonne. It continues through Saint-Price.

The secondary Road 909 connects the Porte of Asnières to Paris with Baillet-in-France by Argenteuil and centers it Vallée of Montmorency. After having crossed several cities, it entirely crosses the commune of the south to north and continues through the forest of Montmorency, Domont, Bouffémont and Moisselles. The road separates in two roadways with single track in the commune. The northern direction passes by the center of the village constituting the main road. The southern direction circumvents the center by the west, through the suburban districts.

Considering the importance of circulation (between 500 and 700 vehicles per direction at the rush hours), a two-track bidirectional skirting by the west of the village a 3,8 kilometers length is envisaged of long time, and should be implemented soon. It will have pavements or verges according to the sections as well as a cycle Aménagement.

These terrestrial infrastructures have an average impact even relatively important in sound term of Pollution according to the regulation. The principal road ways are classified of category 4, of moderated level, but a small portion of D 144 is classified of level 3 (near gyratory D 909/D 144), as well as D 909 in its section in the center of the village, is classified category 3 and even 2 (high harmful effect) in part of the main street. The western deviation of the village envisaged is classified of level 3, rather moderate.

The commune crossed forever by any line of Railroad, on the other hand, it is located in the axis of the tracks of the Aéroport Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle, located at about fifteen kilometers in the east, whose planes in overflight cause important acoustic harmful effects as in the near total of the communes of the south of the Val-d'Oise.

Climate

Montlignon as all the Île-de-France is subjected to a degraded oceanic Climat. The localization of the commune to the septentrional margin of 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, and tends to be accentuated with the passing of years. Moreover, the situation of the commune in a sheltered fold of the forest protected from the winds of north does not make rare a variation of several degrees with the surroundings in calm weather and anticyclonic. This microclimate supplementing the nature of the grounds allows certain varieties of flowers and palm trees to thrive.

The annual average temperature is of 11°C, the month more the cold is January with +4°C; the hottest months are July and August with +19°C (average day laborer). The median number of days when the temperature exceeds 25°C is of 40, including 8 beyond 30°C. In the south of the Val-d'Oise, since 1955, the annual intermediate duration of Ensoleillement is 1719 hours.

Heraldic

History

Montlignon is a progressive deformation of Moulignon , name of the village until the 18th century. The origin of the name would come from Latin mollinum , small mill, which seems confirmed by the existence attested several water mills on the course of the Ru of Corbon.

The village is attested in 1099 under the name of Métiger, when Raoul Deliès, count de Pontoise, give his rights on this last and the village close to Turn (become Saint-Price) to the Saint-Martin-of-Fields abbey. The name of Moulignon appears for the first time in 1148. At the 12th century, the seigniory is repurchased by Suger, abbot of Saint-Denis, which preserves it 1122 at 1151. Following an exchange in 1294, the Fief becomes the property of the family of Montmorency. In 1470, the village counted only twelve inhabitants.

Among the other lords, one can quote Monseigneur Pierre de Moulinoux towards 1271, Jean de Hangest until in 1379, Charles V, who yield it to the chapter of the Ste Chapelle de Vincennes, and various religious orders.

Montlignon was the seat of a royal bailliage, and would have enjoyed a relatively important legal role. In 1542, the existence of a prison is attested. It is demolished in 1768 and is rebuilt with the angle of Grand' street (street of Paris) and of the Pigis lane (gone Lucien-Simonnet). It is especially used to hold the communal assemblies to with it.

The east municipality creates in 1787 per edict of Louis XVI.

The population strongly increases during the 19th century, passing from 130 inhabitants in 1792 with 883 with the census of 1901. During this period, the village is surrounded by beautiful properties, places of stay for the writers and type-setters. The strong urbanization known by the Vallée of Montmorency only affected little Montlignon. The old village gathered along the street of Paris continued to be surrounded gradually of properties on the slopes among the orchards with the foot of the forest what in fact a residential and green place in the vicinity immediate of Paris.

Demography

Administration

The Municipal council is composed of the mayor, of five assistant, four deputy city council men and nine city council men.

The commune is member of the Communauté of agglomeration Valley-and-Forest of which it accommodates the seat. It is also member of several intercommunity associations: the Intercommunity association of cleansing of the area of Enghien-the-Baths (SIARE), the inter-commune swimming pool of Bussys with Eaubonne, the association of the communes of the main forest of Montmorency and the trade union Emerald (household refuse).

Montlignon belongs to the jurisdiction of authority of Montmorency, and great authority as well as trade of Pontoise.

The commune has a post office (12, rue de Paris), open of the Monday to Friday of 9:00 to 12:00 and 15:00 with 17:00 and saturdays of 9:00 to 12:00.

Political tendencies

Politically, Montlignon is a commune strongly anchored on the right.

With the presidential election of 2002, the first turn saw arriving at the head Jacques Chirac with 25,4%, followed Jean-Marie Le Pen with 16,5%, Francois Bayrou with 9,0%, Alain Madelin with 8,8%, Lionel Jospin with 8,7%, Jean-Pierre Chevènement with 8,1%, then No5el Mamère with 5,1%, no other candidate not exceeding the threshold of the 3,5%. With the second turn, the voters voted to 86,0% for Jacques Chirac against 14,0% for Jean-Marie Le Pen with a rate of abstention from 16,5%, result higher than the national tendencies (respectively 82,21% and 17,79%; abstention 20,29%).

With the referendum on the constitutional treaty for Europe of May 29th, 2005, Montlignonnais approved with a vast majority the European Constitution, with 61,85% of Yes compared with 38,15% of Not with a rate of abstention from 23,64% (whole France: Not to 54,67%; Yes to 45,33%). These figures are contrary with the departmental tendency of the Val-d'Oise (Not to 53,47%; Yes to 46,53%) but higher than the results franciliens (Yes 53,99%; Not 46,01%).

With the presidential election of 2007, the first turn saw arriving at the head Nicolas Sarkozy with 42,68%, followed by Francois Bayrou with 23,66%, Ségolène Royal with 16,24%, Jean-Marie Le Pen with 9,08%, no other candidate not exceeding the threshold of the 2%. The second turn saw arriving at the head Nicolas Sarkozy at a very strong majority with 68,27% compared with 31,73% for Ségolène Royal (result national: respectively 53,06 and 46,94%).

Mayors of Montlignon

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Budget and taxation

With a rate of tax of dwelling of 14,57% in 2006, the tax pressure for the private individuals with Montlignon is in the average of the department. The departmental rate of the Val-d'Oise was fixed the same year at 5,88% of the rental value. As comparison, this rate (trade-union share included) was of 13,87% with Saint-Price, 14,57% with Eaubonne 15,60% with Margency or of 17,11% with Montmorency, common neighbors of equivalent population.

Safety

The rate of criminality of the district of police force of Ermont (including Franconville, Plessis-Bouchard, Saint-Price, Montlignon and Eaubonne) is of 66,26 acts for 1000 inhabitants (crimes and offenses, figures 2005) what locates it among weakest of the Val-d'Oise, very largely lower than average the main road (83/1000) and secondary road (88,15/1000). The rate of resolution of the businesses by the police services is on the other hand only of 27,93%, under the average of the department of 28,83%.

Economy

Montlignon is a small commune with primarily residential vocation and its economic life remains limited in spite of a considerable commercial fabric.

In 2007, the commune has a grocer-station service, a garage, three bar-restaurants, a baker's and confectioner's shop, a pharmacy, a hairdressing salon and an esthetic institute.

Transport

Montlignon does not have a station on its territory. It is necessary to go to the Gare of Ermont - Eaubonne then to use the line of bus 38.01.01 of the Pink bus which serves the commune.

Haulage company the “the Pink Bus” (regular transport and school tourism) there has his seat and its garage, 2, rue des Métiger.

Monuments and places of visit

the church Saint-Andrew , building dating from the 12th largely since altered century but. The origins of the church remain obscure. The cemetery which surrounded it was transferred to its current site, with the locality Justice , in 1830. The clock goes back to 1874. The bell, installation in 1707, was baptized Charlotte .

The town hall is installed with the school to the 105 of the street of Paris, it was transferred on the place, in its current building, in 1859.

the laundrette , of the 19th century (street of the laundrette).

The extremely of Montlignon was built in 1874, to defend the valley of Montmorency the road of Eaubonne with Domont. It is located at horse on the Communes of Montlignon and Andilly. Today, the fort shelters the National center of Shooting of the police force.

The old building of the school date of 1885. In 1957, were built the nursery school and the elementary school and of new buildings were added in 1997. The war memorial the was set up in 1921 on the Pigny place, today Place of the Memory. It bears the names of 42 Montlignonnais died for France during the First World War.

Famous characters

The most famous host of Montlignon is Victor Hugo, which immortalisé of it the name in the Contemplations.

you Know on the hill
Which Montlignon joint in Saint-Leu
a terrace which inclines
Between a dark wood and blue sky?

Alfred de Musset remained a time with the castle of Large-Bury, with the limit of the territory of Margency. It invited George Sand there. Later, Paul Éluard also remained in Montlignon, in a property of the street of the schools.

Sport, culture and worships

The commune with primarily residential vocation has only one relatively limited cultural life. But it has nevertheless an associative fabric, a house of Arts (4, rue des schools), a music school (created in 1995) and a room of festivals (10, rue des schools).

A small public library (3, place des schools) is now put in network with the other media libraries of the communes of the community of agglomeration (computerization of the bottom, single chart of access). It was open in 2007 Monday evening, Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday morning and afternoon and Saturday morning, with an annual contribution of ten euros (with the exemption from payment applied for less than eighteen years). the hour of the tale was organized with 15:30 Wednesday for the children. ACSM proposes cultural activities and sporting with the inhabitants, like painting, the gymnastics, tennis, the judo or the dance.

The commune has tennis courts (gone Lucien-Simonnet).

Health

Montlignon counts three doctors, a kinésithérapeuthe, two nurses, a chiropodist and an old people's home (Residence of Montlignon, 17, rue Larive).

See too

Common of the Val-d'Oise
Forest of Montmorency

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