Nézel

Nézel is a common department of the Yvelines, in the area Île-de-France, in France, located at 12 km in the south-east of Mantes-the-Pretty.

Nézel was named Nésel or Neseel between XIIIe and XVe centuries then Nésée or Nézée before the name is fixed in “Nézel”. This name would come from Gallic roots: zel , this, this (conclusive) and nay , point, i.e. the “point of the mounts of Mauldre” in reference to its geographical location at the entry of the valley of Mauldre.

The inhabitants are called Nézellois.

Geography

The commune of Nézel, the smallest commune of Yvelines by its surface, is blottie in the valley of the Mauldre, vis-a-vis the Cliff. It is bordering on Aubergenville in the North-East and the east, of Aulnay-on-Mauldre in the south, the Cliff in the west and of Épône in the North-West and north.

It is served by the secondary road D191 which connect Mantes-the-Pretty to Rambouillet and by a station ('' Nézel-Aulnay '') on the Ligne of the valley of Mauldre (Paris-Montparnasse - Mantes-the-Pretty).

History

Site inhabited since the Neolithic time (tools of cut and polished Flints).
At the 10th century, property of the lords of Epône, Wall, Aulnay then of Aubergenville.
Ouderd of Villeneuve had a manor there.
At the beginning of the 15th century, the family Thomassin de Nézel occupied the territory during more than two centuries.

Culture

Inheritance

Church Saint-Blaise: church out of stone of 1546.
Old bridge: stone bridge with two arches, on Mauldre, built in 1758 by Louis-Urbain-Aubert de Tourny, lord of Cliff.
modern Castle and park.
Dovecote.
Old mill.

Association

musical Association “Nézelloise”

Economy

Agriculture.
Common residential

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