Yvelines

Short description: Department of France in Île-de-France

Yvelines

Department of France

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From top down, left to right: prefecture building in Versailles, view of La Celle-Saint-Cloud, forest and lake in Guyancourt, marble courtyard and gardens of the Palace of Versailles

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Location of Yvelines in France

Coordinates: Coordinates: 48°50′N 1°55′E﻿ / ﻿48.833°N 1.917°E﻿ / 48.833; 1.917
Country| France
Region| Île-de-France
Prefecture| Versailles
Subprefectures| Mantes-la-Jolie
Rambouillet
Saint-Germain-
en-Laye
Government

• President of the Departmental Council| Pierre Bédier (LR)
Area

• Total| 2,284 km2 (882 sq mi)
Population

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• Total| Template:France metadata Wikidata
• Rank| 9th
Time zone| UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+2 (CEST)
Department number| 78
Arrondissements| 4
Cantons| 21
Communes| 259
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries and lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km².

Yvelines (/iːvlɪnz/, /iːvlaɪnz/; French: [ivlin] (listen)) is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France . In 2016, it had a population of 1,431,808. 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.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Geography
* 2.1 Situation
* 2.2 Largest communes
* 3 Demographics
* 3.1 Population development since 1876
* 3.2 Place of birth of residents
* 4 Tourism
* 4.1 Palaces and châteaux
* 4.2 Museums
* 4.3 Artists' and writers' houses
* 4.4 Parks and gardens
* 5 Politics
* 5.1 Members of the National Assembly
* 5.2 Senators
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links

## 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.

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 France 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.[1]

## 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).

Besides Versailles (the prefecture) 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.

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.

### Largest communes

Most Populous Yvelines communes[2] Rank  | Commune  | Canton  | Arrondissement  | Population (2017)

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1  | Versailles  | Versailles-1
Versailles-2  | Versailles  | 85,862
2  | Sartrouville  | Sartrouville  | Saint-Germain-en-Laye  | 51,967
3  | Saint-Germain-en-Laye  | Saint-Germain-en-Laye  | Saint-Germain-en-Laye  | 44,753
4  | Mantes-la-Jolie  | Mantes-la-Jolie  | Mantes-la-Jolie  | 44,299
5  | Poissy  | Poissy  | Saint-Germain-en-Laye  | 37,388
6  | Conflans-Sainte-Honorine  | Conflans-Sainte-Honorine  | Saint-Germain-en-Laye  | 35,846
7  | Montigny-le-Bretonneux  | Montigny-le-Bretonneux  | Versailles  | 32,929
8  | Les Mureaux  | Les Mureaux  | Mantes-la-Jolie  | 32,792
9  | Trappes  | Trappes  | Versailles  | 32,584
10  | Houilles  | Houilles  | Saint-Germain-en-Laye  | 32,151
11  | Plaisir  | Plaisir  | Versailles  | 31,419
12  | Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt  | Le Chesnay  | Versailles  | 31,164
13  | Chatou  | Chatou  | Saint-Germain-en-Laye  | 30,253
14  | Guyancourt  | Montigny-le-Bretonneux  | Versailles  | 28,633
15  | Rambouillet  | Rambouillet  | Rambouillet  | 26,736

## Demographics

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

### Population development since 1876

Historical population

Year| Pop.| ±% p.a.
1876| 235,511| —
1881| 236,471| +0.08%
1891| 250,552| +0.58%
1901| 270,228| +0.76%
1911| 297,562| +0.97%
1921| 321,237| +0.77%
1931| 408,282| +2.43%
1936| 428,166| +0.96%
1946| 431,499| +0.08%
1954| 519,976| +2.36%
1962| 687,827| +3.56%
1968| 854,382| +3.68%
1975| 1,082,255| +3.44%
1982| 1,196,111| +1.44%
1990| 1,307,150| +1.12%
1999| 1,354,304| +0.39%
2007| 1,403,957| +0.45%
2016| 1,431,808| +0.22%
source:[3]

### Place of birth of residents

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## Tourism

### Palaces and châteaux

* Palace of Versailles
* Château de Breteuil
* Château du Haut-Buc
* Château de Dampierre
* 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
* Musee Lambinet (Versailles)

### 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)

* Palace and Gardens of Versailles

* The Grand Trianon

* The Hameau de la Reine

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

* Lavoir of Jumeauville

## Politics

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.

### Members of the National Assembly

In the 2017 legislative election, Yvelines elected the following representatives to the National Assembly:

Constituency | Member[4] | Party

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style="background-color: Template:Party color" |  | Yvelines's 1st constituency | Didier Baichère  | La République En Marche!
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |  | Yvelines's 2nd constituency | Jean-Noël Barrot  | MoDem
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |  | Yvelines's 3rd constituency | Béatrice Piron  | La République En Marche!
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |  | Yvelines's 4th constituency | Marie Lebec  | La République En Marche!
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |  | Yvelines's 5th constituency | Yaël Braun-Pivet  | La République En Marche!
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |  | Yvelines's 6th constituency | Natalia Pouzyreff  | La République En Marche!
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |  | Yvelines's 7th constituency | Rodrigue Kokouendo  | MoDem
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |  | Yvelines's 8th constituency | Michel Vialay  | The Republicans
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |  | Yvelines's 9th constituency | Bruno Millienne  | MoDem
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |  | Yvelines's 10th constituency | Aurore Bergé  | La République En Marche!
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |  | Yvelines's 11th constituency | Nadia Hai  | La République En Marche!
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |  | Yvelines's 12th constituency | Florence Granjus  | La République En Marche!

### 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

1. ↑ "Communiqué de la présidence de la République" (in fr). http://elysee.fr/documents/index.php?lang=fr&mode=view&cat_id=8&press_id=2699.
2. ↑ Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, INSEE
3. ↑ Site sur la Population et les Limites Administratives de la France
4. ↑ http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/

## External links

* (in French) Prefecture of Yvelines
* (in French) General council of Yvelines
* (in French) History of Famous People and Yvelines

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