Yvelines

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Yvelines ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.<ref name=pop2019>Populations légales 2019: 78 Yvelines, INSEE</ref> Its prefecture is Versailles, home to the Palace of Versailles, the principal residence of the King of France from 1682 until 1789, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. Yvelines' subprefectures are Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Mantes-la-Jolie and Rambouillet.

History

Yvelines was created from the western part of the former department of Seine-et-Oise on 1 January 1968 in accordance with a law passed on 10 January 1964 and a décret d'application (a decree specifying how a law should be enforced) from 26 February 1965. It inherited Seine-et-Oise's official number of 78 since it took up the largest portion of its territory. In addition to this, it inherited Seine-et-Oise's prefecture, Versailles.

Yvelines derives its name from the Forest of Yveline, next to Rambouillet.<ref>Busson (abbé G.) Ledru(abbé A.) Actus pontificum Cenomannis in urbe degentium (1902), Template:P..</ref>

It gained the communes of Châteaufort and Toussus-le-Noble from the adjacent department of Essonne in 1969.

The departmental capital, Versailles, which grew up around Louis XIV's château, was also the French capital for more than a century under the Ancien Régime and again between 1871 and 1879 during the early years of the Third Republic. Since then the château has continued to welcome the French Parliament when it is called upon to sit in a congressional sitting (with both houses sitting together) in order to enact constitutional changes or to listen to a formal declaration by the President.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Geography

Situation

Yvelines is bordered by the departments of Val-d'Oise on the north, Hauts-de-Seine on the east, Essonne on the southeast, Eure-et-Loir on the southwest and Eure on the west.

The eastern part of the department, as well as its northern part along the Seine, is part of the Paris metropolitan area, but the rest of the department is rural, much of it covered by the Forest of Rambouillet (also known as the Forest of Yveline, from which the name of the department is derived).

Two regional parks can be found in Yvelines: Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Natural Park and part of Vexin Français Park. Yvelines is home to one of France's best known golf courses, La Tuilerie-Bignon, in the village of Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche.

Principal towns

Besides Versailles (the prefecture and most populous commune) and the subprefectures of Mantes-la-Jolie, Rambouillet, and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, important cities include Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Poissy, Les Mureaux, Houilles, Plaisir, Sartrouville, Chatou, Le Chesnay, and the new agglomeration community of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. As of 2019, there are 21 communes with more than 20,000 inhabitants. The 10 most populous communes are:<ref name=pop2019/>

Commune	Population (2019)
Versailles	84,808
Sartrouville	52,774
Saint-Germain-en-Laye	44,806
Mantes-la-Jolie	43,921
Poissy	39,187
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine	35,536
Les Mureaux	33,203
Houilles	32,801
Trappes	32,645
Montigny-le-Bretonneux	32,282

Demographics

In French, a man from the Yvelines is called Yvelinois (plural Yvelinois); a woman is Yvelinoise (plural Yvelinoises).

Tourism

Palaces and châteaux

• Palace of Versailles
• Château de Breteuil
• Château du Haut-Buc
• Château de Dampierre
• Château de Jouy-en-Josas
• Château de Maisons
• Château de Rambouillet
• Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
• Château of Thoiry
• Château de Vaux-sur-Seine
• Château de Mauvières
• Château du Pont
• Château de Villette
• Château de Millemont

Museums

• Museum of National Antiques (Saint-Germain-en-Laye)
• Museum of River and Canal Craft (Conflans-Sainte-Honorine)
• Horse-drawn Coach Museum (Versailles)
• Toy Museum (Poissy)
• Sheep Museum (Rambouillet)
• Cloth Museum of Jouy (Jouy-en-Josas)
• National Barn Museum of Port-Royal (Magny-les-Hameaux)
• International Museum of Naive Art
• Musée Lambinet (Versailles)
• Musée de la Grenouillère (Croissy-sur-Seine)
• Musée Fournaise (Chatou)

Artists' and writers' houses

• Maurice Denis's house, the Musée départemental Maurice Denis (Saint-Germain-en-Laye)
• André Derain's house (Chambourcy)
• Alexandre Dumas, père's Château de Monte-Cristo (Port-Marly)
• Maurice Ravel's house/museum (Montfort-l'Amaury)
• Jean-Claude Richard's family estate (Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche)
• Elsa Triolet-Aragon's house (Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines)
• Ivan Turgenev House (Bougival)
• Émile Zola's house (Médan)

Parks and gardens

• Chèvreloup Arboretum (Rocquencourt)
• Marly Estate (Marly-le-Roi)
• Vaux-sur-Seine Castle Garden (Vaux-sur-Seine)
• The King's Vegetable Garden (Versailles)
• Outdoor and entertainment base of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Trappes)

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  Palace and Gardens of Versailles

• The Grand Trianon Castle in Summer.JPG

  The Grand Trianon

• Le hameau de la Reine (Versailles) (8040177482).jpg

  The Hameau de la Reine

• Venus of Brassempouy.jpg

  The Venus of Brassempouy from the collection of the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

• Jumeauville lavoir01.jpg

  Lavoir of Jumeauville

Politics

In both local and national elections, the department generally supports centre-right political candidates. Michel Rocard, who served as Prime Minister of France from 1988 to 1991 under President François Mitterrand, was an MP for the department in the Socialist Party. The president of the Departmental Council is Pierre Bédier, first elected in 2014.

Presidential elections 2nd round

Election		Winning Candidate	Party	%	2nd Place Candidate	Party	%
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	2022<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Emmanuel Macron	LREM	71.05	Marine Le Pen	FN	28.95
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	2017<ref name="auto">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Emmanuel Macron	LREM	77.15	Marine Le Pen	FN	22.85
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	2012	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	54.30	François Hollande	PS	45.70
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	2007	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	58.71	Ségolène Royal	PS	41.29
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	2002<ref name="auto"/>	Jacques Chirac	RPR	85.59	Jean-Marie Le Pen	FN	14.41
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	1995<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Jacques Chirac	RPR	60.64	Lionel Jospin	PS	39.36

Members of the National Assembly

In the 2024 legislative election, Yvelines elected the following representatives to the National Assembly:

Constituency		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>!!Party
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yvelines's 1st constituency	Charles Rodwell	RE
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yvelines's 2nd constituency	Anne Bergantz	MoDem
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yvelines's 3rd constituency	Béatrice Piron	RE
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yvelines's 4th constituency	Marie Lebec	RE
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yvelines's 5th constituency	Yaël Braun-Pivet	RE
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yvelines's 6th constituency	Natalia Pouzyreff	RE
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yvelines's 7th constituency	Aurélien Rousseau	PP
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yvelines's 8th constituency	Benjamin Lucas	G.s.
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yvelines's 9th constituency	Dieynaba Diop	PS
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yvelines's 10th constituency	Aurore Bergé	RE
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yvelines's 11th constituency	William Martinet	LFI
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Yvelines's 12th constituency	Karl Olive	RE

Senators

In the Senate, Yvelines is represented by:

• Toine Bourrat (DVD), since 2020
• Marta de Cidrac (LR), since 2017
• Gérard Larcher (LR), since 2007 (President of the Senate since 2014)
• Michel Laugier (UDI), since 2017
• Martin Lévrier (REM), since 2017
• Sophie Primas (LR), since 2011

See also

• Cantons of the Yvelines department
• Communes of the Yvelines department
• Arrondissements of the Yvelines department

References

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External links

• Template:In lang Prefecture of Yvelines
• Template:In lang Departmental council of Yvelines
• Template:In lang History of Famous People and Yvelines

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