Sartrouville

Sartrouville is a town of France, in the north-western suburbs of Paris, chief town of canton, on the the Seine. It is, by its population, the second commune of the Yvelines after Versailles.

Its name would derive from Latin Sartoris villa (firm of the clearers), which tends to make think that the site of the city was in the beginning made up of forests which were cleared. Another approach consists in considering that the city was formerly a village of vine growers Sartorum villa (the village of the Vine growers).

Its inhabitants is called Sartrouvillois.

Geography

Situation

The commune of Sartrouville is in edge of the the Seine, to 15 km in the North-West of Paris (Porte Shirt). It is in extreme cases of the Val-d'Oise.

Its communes bordering are Houses-Laffitte in the west, Cormeilles-in-Parisis in north, Argenteuil and the Hoop-on-Seine in the North-East, Bezons and Houilles in the east, the Career-on-Seine and Montesson in the south.

Transportation routes

Public transport

The commune is served by the Gare of Sartrouville. Sartrouville is thus connected to Paris Saint Lazare and Paris Gare de Lyon on a side, and to Cergy and Poissy of the other.

Lines of bus are ensured towards the cities of the Vésinet, Houilles, Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, Argenteuil or Cormeilles-in-Parisis, but also towards Defense (lines the RATP).

Roads

To Sartrouville pass the D308, the D121 and the N192.

History

Culture of the vine

Sartrouville was a long time a place of culture of the vine. One cultivated there in particular following type of vines: Black Gamay, gois, miller, tufted duck as attest certain street names of them such as: rue des Morillons, the street Gamay, etc

The culture of the vine disappeared at the beginning of the 20th century under the joint effect of two factors: on the one hand, the development of the railroad made enter in competition the local production with the wines of midday, on the other hand will phylloxera it destroyed most of type of vines in 1902. Today, only some plans are still cultivated near the Saint Martin's day church.

Sartrouville, one of the cradles of aeronautics

Airships

Sartrouville had at the beginning of the 20th century an aerodrome which allowed the reception of the airships.

The airship Ville of Paris , indeed, was stored there in 1904 in a gigantic hangar. Other airships took their take-off of Sartrouville such as the Clément Bayard and the Ville of Nancy intended for the Russian government.

CAMWOODS

Sartrouville was also selected in the years 1920 by the building sites Aéro Maritime of the Seine to develop its activities to with it. The city is indeed near Paris and has the tram which connects Houses-Laffitte to Paris. The building sites develop seaplanes of maritime recognition (like CAMWOODS 37 or 55) and a flying-boat (CAMWOODS 53) which, as from 1929, is largely used for the civil lines through the Mediterranean. The CAMWOODS group, then CNCAN will become in 1958 North Aviation and will amalgamate with South Aviation in 1970 to become the Aerospatiale.

Demography

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culture

The town of Sartrouville includes/understands various cultural equipment:

  • the Minicipale School of Arts (street of November 11th), gathering 1.100 pupils within the three establishments which compose it: The School of visual arts, the Academy of Dance and the Academy of Music.
  • the Theater of Sartrouville, Centers Dramatic National (Jacques-Brel Place) with each season nearly 30 spectacles, the Odyssées festival 78 every two years.
  • the network of the Libraries of Sartrouville, composed of the Media library (9, place des Fusillés, vis-a-vis the station), and of library Stendhal (2, place Stendhal): a qualified and accessible team places at the disposal of readers, novels, band-drawn, DVD, periodicals, books audios, CD-ROM,…

Monuments

The Saint Martin's day church has an arrow hones some which dates from the Middle Ages ().

Personality related to the commune

  • Pierre Saka (Pierre Sakalakis) born in 1921, author, melodist, man of radio,
  • Nicolas the Rich person, principal dancer with the Opéra of Paris was born the January 29th 1972 in Sartrouville,
  • Angélique Ionatos, compositrice, singer of Greek origin. Lives in Sartrouville and was Associated Artist with the theater with Sartrouville with 1989 to 2000,
  • Louis Paulhan, pilot from plane, fighter pilot, manufacturer of Hydravion S,
  • the Orsi police chief, resistant,
  • Guy of Maupassant spent a few summers to Sartrouville to write there, says one, the novel a life .
  • Etienne Turgot,
  • Doctor Destouches (known as Celine) is named doctor as a chief of the dispensary of the city in 1940,
  • Tristan Gommendy, racing driver, is Sartrouvillois,
  • Philippe Jaroussky, lyric singer, trained with the academy of Sartrouville
  • Sartrouville is the city of the Triathlon, organized each year, and the champion Frederic Belaubre is Sartrouvillois like the Mouthon sisters.
  • the racing cyclist Pascal Lino, professional in the years 1990 and 5th of the Tour de France 1992, was born in Sartrouville.
  • Roger Knobelspiess, born in 1947, writer, actor, lived a few years with Sartrouville.

Twinnings

Administration

Town planning

The city consists of a vast suburban unit which extends from Montesson to Houilles/Houses-Laffitte and which borders the Seine. This unit gathers the districts of the Ten-Arpents, the Plain, Vaudoire, the Old man-Country, the White Cross, Richebourgs and the Union.

a whole of houses

The historical center town (close to the church of the 13th century) moved place Nationale (Old man-Country) in the place of Fusillés located in front of the station. This place with fact the object of an important restoration completed in 2007.

The plate includes/understands, in addition to houses, several groups of buildings to the varied statutes (private HLM and residences). The district of the city of the Indies counted to eight thousand inhabitants in 1970 after one period of important immigration. It was, and it is still, a excentré district where very often live poor families. This disadvantaged district was exposed to urban violences it there has about fifteen years (1991) and is the subject of a program of urban renovation.

See too

Related articles

  • Common of Yvelines

External bonds

  • the official site of the commune of Sartrouville
  • the site of the media library

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