Wood-Doves is a common north of the department of the Hauts-de-Seine, in the area Île-de-France, in France.
The inhabitants are the Wood-Colombians.
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History
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Area timbered until the medium of 19th. This one will be occupied, after the fall of the first Empire (1815), by the Cosaques which establish a camping. The first dwellings will be guinguettes built to accommodate the Sunday strollers, increasingly many because of the expansion of Asnières.
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1857 - the variation of Wood-Doves is born under the second Empire thanks to the railroad.
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1880 - (towards this date) First project of independence.
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1891 - Inauguration of the market under the auspices of the town of Doves.
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1896 - It is finally under the presidency of Felix Faure and after twenty years of epic palaver that the commune is finally created starting from the section of the " Wood of Doves " distracted from the commune of Doves (cf Official journal dated March 17th, 1896). The limits of its territory are given with depend on Colombes, the Mayor of Asnières, Mr. Hector-Gonsalve Fontaine, having declared with vehemence " --- that he wanted to yield neither an inch of ground, nor a hardcore of the houses of his city! ---" . The commune will be attached to the canton of Courbevoie (district of St Denis) the wooded small island located close to the village of Doves, in the past dedicated to hunting then for the walk becomes a charming village, already connected to Paris by three railway lines. The proximity of the capital supports the development of the agglomeration and quickly becomes an important village inhabited by artists, scientists, tradesmen and employees. At the day of sound " indépendance" it is already equipped with a church, a school (Paul-Bert) and larger market of the surroundings.
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1896 - the commune lately created acquires of part of old the Redoute of Gennevilliers, located on the territory of Asnières, to establish there its cemetery, it comprises a military square for deaths of the war 14-18.
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1901 - Death of Zénobe inventive Gram of the Dynamo, the Municipal council decides to give the name of the electrician to the " way of the Revolution " energy of the avenue of Argenteuil to the avenue of Gennevilliers (future avenue of the Saar Agent)
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1908 - Fastening of the city to the canton of Doves.
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1910 - Following the example neighbouring communes, Wood-Doves knows the floods related to the believed of the Seine. During this rising the disaster victims of the district of the Four-Roads find refuge in the market of Wood-Doves.
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1935 - Construction of current the station drawn by Urbain Cassan.
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1935-1937 - Construction of the new town hall.
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1943
- on September 9th, the city is bombarded. Hispano-Suiza, under control of the occupant, is doubtless aimed but it will not be touched. The damage is important, about thirty bombs explode, they will make 13 victims and will wound thirty others of them. They will destroy or will damage more than 70 residential buildings.
- on September 15th, the city will again be bombarded. More than 230 bombs will explode and make 41 dead and 93 wounded. They will destroy or will damage nearly 800 buildings.
- on December 31st, the city will know the last wave of bombardment of its history. Nearly 200 bombs will explode and make 19 dead and 22 wounded. They will destroy or will damage nearly 400 buildings.
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1957 - the outdatedness of the old market, creates in 1891, will justify a complete rebuilding, and a widening of the streets forming access.
Administration
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Elections
For the electoral deadlines of 2007 Wood-Doves belongs to the 82 communes of more than 3500 inhabitants having used the machines to vote.
Policy
Wood-doves gives each other mayors of right-hand side with a great regularity, in spite of internal quarrels with this camp, which sometimes could turn to the settling of score. Emile Tricon, mayor during 33 years (senator of 1986 with 1988), left in September 1986 (after its accession with the seat of senator of the Hauts-de-Seine - to actually allow Charles Pasqua to take again this seat in 1988 - its seat in the course of mandate with its assistant Jean-François Probst. The national ambitions of this one, it will finish adviser of Jacques Chirac, led the Wood-Colombians, little filled with enthusiasm by projects which seemed to have to harm the provincial atmosphere of the city, to get rid of it at the end of a mandate. Roger Blinière, who succeeded to him, will lose to him also his seat at the end of his mandate (following very particular real estate projects) to the profit of Yves Révillon, re-elected in 2001, which was also elected general adviser!
Wood-doves at the time of the elections of 2007 is completely equipped with machines with E-voting. Moreover, 3 machines broke down on April 22nd (Source: The Parisian one of April 24th, 2007) and the latencies reached records, until sometimes two hours.
Demography
Geography
Wood-doves is traditionally divided into several districts:
- Chambards, close to the avenue of Argenteuil (old RN 309) which connects the crossroads of Burgundian to the Four-Roads of Colombes. This district, near to Top-in Asnières (in the past districts north) to Asnières-sur-Seine, the least easy of the city and is the least best served by public transport. The habitat is divided there between small houses and multifamily apartments.
- the Center where the services are gathered (the town hall, the principal post office, the school Paul-Bert, the market of the center, the library, the church Our-Lady-of-Good-Help, the Gare of Wood-Doves…). If the Center is well placed on the North-South axis, it however is shifted on the East-West axis, being bordering on Asnières-sur-Seine. The urbanization having started near the station, the habitat is denser there with many buildings.
- the Valleys, in edge of Doves and the Garenne-Doves, is a residential district. The habitat mainly consists there of houses with small buildings with the corners of the streets.
- the Coast-Saint-Thibaut is his during a little the denser side of Asnières-sur-Seine. One finds there the center nautical which replaced the public swimming pool when it was privatisée.
- the Heathers (which gave half of its name to the Gare of Bécon-the-Heathers) was an industrial park in extreme cases of Courbevoie and the Garenne-Doves. The zone is in the course of refitting and consists today of residences and office buildings surrounding a park.
- the school residence Albert-Camus, whose pupils also come from the common neighbors, is located between the Valleys and the Heathers. The pupils profit there from a complete sporting center comprising a swimming pool, a gymnasium and tracks of athletics in tartan.
Economy
Located in the north of the Hauts-de-Seine, Wood-Doves is a primarily residential city. The street of Burgundian (old RN 309a), bordering on Asnières-sur-Seine is the most important commercial street of the north of the peninsula of Gennevilliers. The city counted several notable companies in the cosmetics (Payot), the ball bearings (SKF) but mainly aeronautics (Hispano-Suiza). Impossibility for the companies of extending and the value from the grounds led to a disindustrialization of the commune. The departure of Hispano-Suiza, which provided the quarter of the receipts of the city, was lived like a catastrophe by the inhabitants. However the site of the Heathers which Hispano-Suiza occupied, and the head offices which are established there seem to bring a new breath to Wood-Doves since 2004. The companies Revived as Colgate-Palmolive recently settled there.
Served well by the train (one counts three stations connected to Saint-Lazare in or in the vicinity immediate of the city: Wood-Doves, Bécon-the-Heathers and the Valleys), Wood-Doves on the other hand is circumvented by all the road main roads crossing the north of the Hauts-de-Seine, which enables him to maintain a quasi-provincial atmosphere.
Sociology
In 2002, the share of the households whose monthly net income exceeded 3511 € was of 17,8% compared with 21,1% for the department.
If Wood-Doves is thus located among the cities whose income per capita remains relatively relatively low, this figure of 17,8% is one of strongest in the north of the department. Moreover, the population of Wood-Doves is one of oldest north of the Hauts-de-Seine.
With the center even of the commune one can distinguish two rather distinct geographical areas whose separation, even if it cannot be clearly established, could be the street Victor-Hugo. Thus the population of the south of Wood-Doves, where the town hall and the nautical center are located, consists of households to the incomes more consequent than in north. It will be noticed besides that the south of the côtoie city of the rather easy cities such as Courbevoie or the Garenne-Doves while north is very close to Top-in Asnières (in the past districts north) to Asnières-sur-Seine or resident of the households to the more modest incomes. If the policy of embellishment of the municipal team is especially centered on the district of the Heathers and the center town, an action of rehabilitation of the northern district is undertaken by important work of the place Jean Mermoz and especially by the creation of a new college.
Monuments
The old blower of the factory Hispano-Suiza, with the Heathers, is classified. It was transformed into school at the time of the disindustrialization of the site.
Apart from the blower, the most notable monument is the town hall of 1935. Its belfry verdigris, visible with several kilometers with the round, is often used as benchmark to the Wood-Colombians to guide the visitors!
The city and the 7th art
The town hall was used for film turnings:
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1980 : Banking the of Francis Girod
- 1988: the Plot ( To Kill has Priest ) Agnieszka Holland
Personalities
Births
- Roger Kahane, born in 1932, realizer and scenario writer.
- Pierre Potter born in 1934, pharmacist and chemist, director of the Institute of chemistry of natural substances, professor to the national Natural history museum of natural history, member of the national Academy of pharmacy and of the Academy of Science.
- Bruno Moynot, born in 1950, actor.
- Jacques Lanzmann, (° 1927 - † 2006), writer and lyric writer.
- Yoann Sover born in 1980. Actor and organizer tele
- Auguste Bain died in 1916, inventor of the safety razor and patron.
- Henry Litolff, died in 1891 (with Doves, therefore, French pianist virtuoso and type-setter.
- Pierre Joigneaux, died in 1892, Journalist and politician of Extreme left.
- Zénobe Gram, died in 1901, Belgian and inventive electrician of the Dynamo.
- max of Veuzit, author (female) of sentimental novels.
They followed there their schooling
- Ecole Paul-Bert: the footballer Lilian Thuram.
- College Albert-Camus: Daniel Balavoine (which gave its name to the vocational school of the city), Hubert Védrine and Joelle Mogensen of the group It was once.
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Martin Solveig passed his youth to Wood-Doves.
Twinning
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