On 17 January 1899 at Achères, Yvelines near Paris, France, he reached the speed of 66.66 km/h (41.42 mph) over the kilometer, driving a CGA Dogcart.
He is known for setting the first recognised automobile land speed record on December 18, 1898 in Achères, Yvelines, using a Jeantaud electric car.
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This project, started back up in 2004 by the Transport Minister Gilles de Robien, caused significant concern among locals, such as the inhabitants of South of Yvelines.
Paul-Albert Bartholomé (1848 in Thiverval-Grignon, Yvelines, France – 1928 in Paris), was a French painter and sculptor and is inhumed in the 4th division of the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Montfort-l'Amaury, a French commune in the Yvelines département in the southwestern suburbs of Paris
In October 1945, Yvonne de Gaulle bought the Château de Vert-Cœur at Milon-la-Chapelle (Yvelines), where they installed a private hospital for handicapped young girls: the Fondation Anne de Gaulle.
Aubette de Meulan is a French river that begins at Avernes in Val-d'Oise, flows through Vigny, and empties into the Seine in Meulan-en-Yvelines.
The American architect Kevin Roche worked on this building, as well as the previous head office location, the Challenger complex in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
The Château de Groussay is located in the town of Montfort-l'Amaury, in the Department of Yvelines, in France.
The château de La Celle, also named château de La Celle Saint-Cloud or the petit château, is located in the commune of La Celle-Saint-Cloud, in the French département of Yvelines (France), south-west suburbs of Paris, six kilometers north of Versailles.
The Château de Pontchartrain is located in the municipality of Jouars-Pontchartrain in the department of Yvelines in France .
Colette Deréal (born Colette Denise de Glarélial, 22 September 1927 in Saint-Cyr-l'École, Seine-et-Oise (now Yvelines), France and died 12 April 1988 in Monaco) was a French actress and singer.
A student of Horace Vernet then Corot, he spent most of his life in Yvelines, at first in his birthplace of Versailles, then at Bougival from 1860.
Born at Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, he began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs.
He became a professor at the Ecole Nationale de Musique Edgar Varèse in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, France and in the same year was named Director of the Conservatoire Municipal de Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, France.
The Society Opus Yvelines organizes annually this contest with the support of the city of Maisons-Laffitte and the General Council of the Yvelines.
As projects get bigger, he goes on to argue, the buildings should not get bigger, but divide up; thus, for instance, in his unrealised scheme for a school in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (1978), France, the school became a “city in miniature”.
Château de Jouy-en-Josas, Jouy-en-Josas, Yvelines: Reconstruction of the château for the chemist and ammunition manufacturer Armand Seguin, who bought the estate in 1801
The annual Prix Miesque at the Hippodrome in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines and the Miesque Stakes at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California are held in her honor.
He was one of the two MNR municipal councillors elected in Sartrouville (Yvelines) in the French municipal elections, 2001 when his list won 11.3% of the votes.
At the end of the 1920s Aschberg moved to France, where he bought Château du Bois du Rocher at Jouy-en-Josas, in 1950 offered to the Unesco and subsequently sold to the Yvelines department.
The Pavilion du Butard is a hunting lodge in the Forêt de Fausses-Reposes in the territory of La Celle-Saint-Cloud in Yvelines, France.
Le Pecq, Yvelines is a commune in the Yvelines département of the Île-de-France region of France
His funeral was held on January 13, 2007 at Saint-Léonard's church in Croissy-sur-Seine (Yvelines, France).
Rosny-sur-Seine commune in the Yvelines département in France
Every four years, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines serves as the start and finish point of the famous Paris–Brest–Paris bicycling endurance event.
The closest station to Voisins-le-Bretonneux is Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines station on Paris RER line C, on the Transilien La Défense suburban rail line, and on the Transilien Paris – Montparnasse suburban rail line.
Since then the château has continued to welcome the parlement when called upon to sit in a congressional sitting, jointly with the upper house in order to enact constitutional changes or, as happened most recently in June 2009, to listen to a formal declaration by the president.