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unusual facts about Hauts de Seine



Council of Paris

The Préfecture de Police (which also has authority over the fire brigades of Paris), for example, has still a jurisdiction extending to the petite couronne (small corona or halo) of Paris, the three bordering départements (Seine-Saint-Denis, Hauts de Seine, and Val de Marne) for some operations such as fire protection and rescue operations, and the Préfecture de Police is still directed by France's national government.


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Bernie Bonvoisin

Bernard "Bernie" Bonvoisin (born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French hard rock singer and film director.

Carrosserie Pourtout

In 1941 Marcel Pourtout was appointed Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine) in 1941, as it was customary at the time to choose someone who headed a business.

Château d'Issy

The sculptor Auguste Rodin repurchased the pediment of the garden façade, as well as the avant-corps columns; he set up these pieces at his property of Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine).

Château de la Petite Malmaison

The Château de la Petite Malmaison is a French château from the 19th century in the town of Rueil-Malmaison in the Hauts-de-Seine department.

Cimetière parisien de Bagneux

Located to the southwest of the city of Paris, France, the main entrance to the Cimetière de Bagneux is located at 43-45, Avenue Marx-Dormoy, in Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine.

Cumul des mandats

This rule was more or less upheld by Jacques Chirac during the governments of Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin for the 2002-2007 term, with a few notable exceptions (Jean-François Copé was mayor of Meaux, Nicolas Sarkozy was President of the Hauts-de-Seine General Council); for instance, Philippe Douste-Blazy had to step down from the Toulouse mayorship upon joining the government.

Cyril Houri

Cyril Lionel Houri (born April 1969 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a New York-based entrepreneur who has founded two geolocation technology companies: InfoSplit, Inc. and Mexens Technology Inc. (now called Navizon.

Frédéric Kuhn

Frédéric Kuhn (born July 10, 1968 in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine) is a retired male hammer thrower from France, who competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Gare de Nanterre – Université

Nanterre — Université station is an RER and SNCF train station in Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine.

Georges Poujouly

Georges Poujouly (20 January 1940, Garches, Hauts-de-Seine – 28 October 2000, Villejuif, Val-de-Marne) was a French actor who gained international acclaim as a child for his performance in the award-winning film Forbidden Games.

Geraldine of Albania

King Zog I died in Hauts-de-Seine, France, in 1961 and their son, Crown Prince Leka, was proclaimed King Leka I by the royalist government in exile.

Gérard Manset

Gérard Manset (also known as Manset; born 21 August 1945 in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French singer-songwriter, painter, photographer and writer.

Guy Lacour

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.

Ilona Mitrecey

Ilona Mitrecey (born 1 September 1993 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine), more commonly known as Ilona, is a French singer.

Jean-Michel Bellot

Jean-Michel Bellot (born 16 December 1953 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine) is a retired male pole vaulter from France.

Julie Gayet

Gayet was born in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, where her father Brice Gayet was a professor of gastric surgery at the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris and her mother was an antique dealer.

Louis-Antoine Jullien

He died in an asylum at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, but was still remembered in London twenty years after his death: he was described as "Jullien, the eminent musico" in W. S. Gilbert's libretto for Patience (1881).

Michel Delpech

Jean-Michel Delpech (born in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine, France) on 26 January 1946) , known as Michel Delpech, is a French singer-songwriter.

Prince Pasquale, Count of Bari

Pasquale married morganatically to Blanche Marconnay, daughter of Henriette de Marconnay, on 20 November 1878 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine.

Renée Faure

Renée Faure (born in Paris on 4 November 1919, died in Clamart, Hauts de Seine, on 2 May 2005) was a French stage and film actress.

Thierry Le Luron

In 1969, Thierry Le Luron was a 17-year-old student at the Lycée Emmanuel-Mounier in Châtenay-Malabry and created a band called The Dead Rats with his friends and performed a few gigs in the Hauts-de-Seine.

Tour Generali

Tour Generali (English: Generali Tower) was a skyscraper planned for construction in the business quarter of La Défense in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine, France).

Yves Duteil

He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), in 24 July 1949 and is the third child to be born in the family.