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unusual facts about Maurepas, Yvelines


Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain

Louis Phélypeaux (1643–1727), marquis de Phélypeaux (1667), comte de Maurepas (1687), comte de Pontchartrain (1699), known as the chancellor de Pontchartrain, was a French politician.


A12 autoroute

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.

Albert Bartholomé

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.

Amaury

Montfort-l'Amaury, a French commune in the Yvelines département in the southwestern suburbs of Paris

Amite

Amite River, tributary of Lake Maurepas in Mississippi and Louisiana in the United States

Anne de Gaulle

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.

Armand Thomas Hue de Miromesnil

He was brought into the ministry by his patron Maurepas following the ascension of Louis XVI and the dissolution of the Maupeou ministry, taking office alongside Turgot and Malesherbes.

Aubette de Meulan

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.

Bouygues

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.

Château de Groussay

The Château de Groussay is located in the town of Montfort-l'Amaury, in the Department of Yvelines, in France.

Château de la Celle

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.

Château de Pontchartrain

The Château de Pontchartrain is located in the municipality of Jouars-Pontchartrain in the department of Yvelines in France .

Colette Deréal

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.

Émile Lambinet

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.

François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif

Maurepas records in his memoirs that at the induction ceremony, a member let loose a cat he had secreted in his pocket: the cat miaowed, the Académiciens miaowed and the serious oration dissolved in laughter.

Georges Guibourg

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.

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.

Ile de France International Piano Competition

The Society Opus Yvelines organizes annually this contest with the support of the city of Maisons-Laffitte and the General Council of the Yvelines.

Léon Krier

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”.

Louis-Martin Berthault

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

Michipicoten Island

On some old maps, Michipicoten Island is shown as Isle Maurepas, after the French minister of Marine Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas.

Miesque

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.

Nicolas Bay

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.

Olof Aschberg

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.

Pavillon du Butard

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.

Pecq

Le Pecq, Yvelines is a commune in the Yvelines département of the Île-de-France region of France

Pierre Fichet

His funeral was held on January 13, 2007 at Saint-Léonard's church in Croissy-sur-Seine (Yvelines, France).

Rosny

Rosny-sur-Seine commune in the Yvelines département in France

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Every four years, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines serves as the start and finish point of the famous Paris–Brest–Paris bicycling endurance event.

Voisins-le-Bretonneux

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.

Yvelines

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.


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