Saint-Leu-the-Forest is a commune of the Val-d'Oise located in Vallée of Montmorency, to approximately 20 km in the north of Paris.
Its inhabitants are Saint-Loupien () S.
Geography
The commune is bordering on Taverny, Chauvry, Bouffémont, Saint-Price, Ermont and Plessis-Bouchard.
Saint-Leu occupies a surface of 526 hectares including 146 hectares of forest.
Its Altitude is of:
- 65 meters in the plain
- 84 meters on the level of the town hall
- 170 meters on the level of the Chestnut grove
- 190 meters with the " Fir trees brûlés".
It is served by a Gare ('' Saint-Leu-the-Forest '') of the line Paris - Persan by Ermont ().
History
Saint-wolf with the Middle Ages (Leu being the old form of the word wolf), which gives Saint-Loupien for the name of his inhabitants.
The city still comprises many lanes, which were intended for the circulation of the leprous one.
The name of Saint-Leu-the-Forest comes from the existence of a church at the 12th century dedicated to the saint éponyme, archbishop of Sens in 609.
The village is a seigniory of the Montmorency as from the 14th century, then Condé until the Révolution. In 1470, the population comprises only 50 inhabitants.
Of 1794 with 1806, the commune took the name of Claire-Fountain; in 1806, it was famous Saint-Leu-Taverny; then, in 1852, Napoleon-Saint-Leu-Taverny, name which it preserved until in 1870 to take again the name of Saint-Leu-Taverny then. In October 1915, it became finally Saint-Leu-the-Forest, Taverny having been set up in independent commune.
At the 17th century, there were two castles with Saint-Leu: in 1645 is built the castle Top to the site of the castle seigneurial of Montmorency, then in 1693 is built the castle of Bottom on the stronghold of Ort. Both were acquired in 1804 by Louis Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon i, which made demolish oldest, the castle Top and settled with his wife the queen Hortense in the field of Bottom. It is buried with his wife in the church of the city and one can see their tombs behind the furnace bridge.
The second castle disappeared in its turn after mysterious death from the last from the Condé, in 1830.
The arrival of the railroad in 1876 modifies the life of the village and accelerates its progressive integration with the Paris and its suburbs.
Heraldic
Demography
Demographic table
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Administration
Saint-Leu-the-forest belongs to the jurisdiction of authority of Montmorency, and great authority as well as trade of Pontoise.
Mayors of Leu Saint the Forest
- Holy Leu Taverny (1789)
- 1789-1791 Denis Léonard DUPORT
- 1791-1792 Pierre Marc FIEVE
- 1792-1795 Denis LAMOTTE
- Claire Fontaine cy-in front of Saint Leu (1794)
- 1795-1800 Denis LAMOTTE
- 1800-1803 Louis DUPORT
- 1803-1806 Etienne Nicolas CALON
- Holy Leu-Taverny (1806)
- 1806-1814 Auguste Louis DELATOUR
- 1814-1815 Jean Charles Louis DEGOUVE
- 1815-1816 MIDDLE-CLASS Rene
- 1816-1819 Jean Charles Louis DEGOUVE
- 1819-1822 Jean Baptist OBRY
- Holy Leu (1820)
- 1822-1826 Jean Michel BOYER
- 1826-1830 Gervais TAILOR
- 1830-1831 Rene Frederic LOREILHE
- 1831-1834 No5el Julien DUPORT
- 1834-1843 Mathurin Pierre LEGUILLER
- 1843-1848 Pierre Urbain FABER
- 1848-1856 Louis Edouard DUBOIS
- Napoleon-Saint Leu-Taverny (1852)
- 1856-1876 Louis Joseph LEDUC
- 1876-1879 Leon Alfred MOVE BACK
- 1879-1882 Stanislas Edouard CAILLET
- Saint Leu-Taverny (1880)
- 1882-1888 Emile BONNET
- 1888-1892 Eugene VEBER
- 1892-1919 Emile AIMOND
- Saint Leu the Forest (1915)
- 1919-1935 Edmond CASSAN
- 1935-1941 Georges FAVRE
- 1941-1943 Georges MIROU
- 1943-1944 Alphonse PEGARD
- 1944-1944 Georges ROY
- 1945-1947 Marcel BOULADOUX
- 1947-1948 Alphonse PEGARD
- 1948-1970 Cyrille LECOMTE
- 1970-1977 Marcel ALAVOINE
- 1977-2001 François GAYET
- 2001-xxxx Jean the GAC
Safety
The rate of criminality of the district of police force of Taverny (including Saint-Leu-the-Forest, Beauchamp and Bessancourt) is of 70,91 acts for 1000 inhabitants (crimes and offenses, figures 2005) what clearly locates it under average the main road (83/1000) and secondary road (88,15/1000). The rate of resolution of the businesses by the police services is of 30,95%, slightly higher than the average of the department of 28,83%.
Transport
The commune is served by the Gare of Saint-Leu-the-Forest, on the Transilien Paris-North.
Monuments and places of visit
the church Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles was built in 1851 on order of prince Napoleon, future Napoleon III and was devoted in its presence. He replaces a former construction of the 17th century, devoted the November 7th 1690. The church shelters in its Crypte the tombs of four family members Bonaparte.
the consular house (2, rue Émile-Bonnet) date of the beginning of the 18th century. during the First World War, it was used like military hospital annexes and accommodated in five years more than two thousand Poilu S.
the cross of the prince de Condé (78, rue du Château) mark the site of the room of the Castle of Saint-Leu, demolished during the second quarter of the 19th century, in which hung Louis VI Henri de Bourbon-Cop in 1830 was found, to the catch of a window.
the fountain of the harvester (place of the Forging mill) was built of 1893 with 1895 and replaces a preceding fountain dating from the 14th century. The statue of the harvester symbolizes the agricultural work, that of the main part of the inhabitants of the village of then.
the laundrette of Eauriette (street Kléber), built in 1873.
the fountain of Boissy (Street of Boissy), built at the end of the 19th century.
Personalities related to the city
- Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte and the queen Hortense
- Nicolas Beaujon, financial French
- Louis-Philippe of Orleans (1749-1793), duke of Orleans (known under the name of “Philippe Égalité”)
- Madam de Genlis (1746-1830), marchioness of Sillery, woman of letters
- Joseph Fouché (1759-1820), Minister for the police force to the service of Napoleon
- Georges Cadoudal (1771-1804), chouan
- the Prince of Condé (1756-1830), father of the Duke of Enghien, that Napoleon Bonaparte was to make remove and shoot in 1804.
- Wanda Landowska (1879-1959), harpsichordist and Polish pianist; settles there in 1923 and, in 1925, founds a music school in 1925 qu there ' it inaugurates with Alfred Cortot.
- Eyvind Johnson (1900-1976), Swedish writer, Nobel Prize of literature in 1974
- Olivier Larronde (1927-1965), writer and poet French
Culture
Sculptures of Aristide Patsoglou, local artist, decorate the entry of the library and the seat of the municipal police.
See too
Internal bonds
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