The Villiers-on-Marne

the Villiers-on-Marne is a common French, located in the department of the Valley-of-Marne and the area Île-de-France.

the Villiers-on-Marne belongs, with the communes of Bry-sur-Marne and Noisy-the-Large, with sector 1 of the new city of Marne-the-Valley, called Portes of Paris .

Its inhabitants is called Villiérains.

Geography

Curiously, it proves that the Marne does not run in the Villiers-on-Marne. The river passes indeed slightly more to the west, with Bry-sur-Marne, then all in Noisy-the-Large north with . Nevertheless, of small brooks ran formerly in Villiers, of which the Ru of the Moor, from now on channeled and transformed into underground sewer, lower part of the way of railroad. This city holds in fact its name of its basement, mixes natural clay and of limestone called marl. The city counts also many other natural spaces (nearly 14 ha on the whole), like the Park of the Wood-St-Denis, or Wood-Saint-Martin, in the south-east of the commune, and divided with Noisy-the-Large, Plessis-Trévise and Émerainville, which will be opened soon with the public.

Villiers is a city relatively punt, located at about fifteen kilometers of Paris, to which it is connected by a4 highway (which serve the north and the west of the city) and the RER E (station in full downtown area). Coming from the capital, Villiers thus marks one of the main doors of the new city of Marne-the-Valley.

List districts:

Doors of Villiers (Commercial space)
the High Valleys
Armoiries/Le Castle
Boutareines (Practice de Golf, Ikea, Bricorama)
the Parrots
the Culverts
Luats
the Wood of Gaumont
the district of the Desert
the Fountains Giroux (studios SFP/INA), close to Bry
Center
Morvrains

History

In the Années 1930, many allotments will be built (in particular with the Wood of Gaumont), which will transform the village into small town of suburbs.

The new urban development of Marne-the-Valley, to which Villiers belongs (sector 1), also will allow, during years 1960/1970, the emergence of many new districts (Doors of Villiers, High Valleys, Boutareines, Luats…), in the place of old empty or agricultural spaces, and the economic advancement of the city (installation of many commercial signs).

Administration

Economy

Transport

the RER line E: Station of the Villiers-on-Marne - Plessis-Trévise

Lines of bus serving Villiers on the Marne:

106 110 120 206 207 210 306 307 (*) 308

N33 N130

(*) 307 is known as " Navette" ; Interior bus with Villiers and which serves the districts.

Culture/Leisures

Twinnings

The town of the Villiers-on-Marne is twinned with the towns of Entrocamento to Portugal, Friedberg in Germany, and Bishop' S Storford in Great Britain

Famous personalities

Vanessa Paradis, singer, born with Saint-Maur-of-Ditches, and which passed all its childhood and its adolescence to Villiers.
Octave Lapize (1887/1917) Racing cyclist, victorious of the turn of France 1910.
Nessbeal rappor of the Dicidens group.
Louis de Funès passed his childhood to Villiers where he attended the school Jules Ferry.

Fabien Onteniente (3-0, Jet set, Camp-site…) also its childhood passed to Villiers, where his/her parents always live.
Claude Perraudin, guitarist and type-setter who worked with Jacques Dutronc, Claude Francois, Serge LAMA lived in Villiers between 1977 and 1982. Two titles of its instrumental album " Change 24" pay homage to the city: " Fogs of Villiers" and " small the casino" in reference to the old cinema of Villiers.

Eric Averlant, actor (" Visiteurs" , " Delicatessen" …)

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