Le Mesnil-le-Roi

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Le Mesnil-le-Roi
Commune
Town hall
Town hall
Coat of arms of Le Mesnil-le-Roi
Coat of arms
Location of Le Mesnil-le-Roi
Le Mesnil-le-Roi is located in France
Le Mesnil-le-Roi
Le Mesnil-le-Roi
Coordinates: 48°56′15″N 2°07′39″E / 48.9375°N 2.1275°E / 48.9375; 2.1275Coordinates: 48°56′15″N 2°07′39″E / 48.9375°N 2.1275°E / 48.9375; 2.1275
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentYvelines
ArrondissementSaint-Germain-en-Laye
CantonSartrouville
IntercommunalityCA Saint Germain Boucles Seine
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Serge Caseris[1]
Area
1
3.27 km2 (1.26 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2018)[2]
6,292
 • Density1,900/km2 (5,000/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
78396 /78600
Elevation20–71 m (66–233 ft)
(avg. 42 m or 138 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Mesnil-le-Roi is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is about 8 km (5 mi) from Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

The name "Mesnil" comes from Latin: mansionilis meaning "little estate". The name "Le Mesnil-le-Roi" could be said "The King's small estate" (Francis I). On the other hand, the name of Mesnil-le-Roi in the time of the French Revolution was Le Mesnil-Carrières, "Mesnil quarries".

The inhabitants are called Mesnilois (male) and Mesniloise (female).

Geography[]

Le Mesnil-le-Roi is situated between the Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the left bank of the River Seine. It is bordered by Maisons-Laffitte to the north, Le Pecq to the south and Saint-Germain-en-Laye to the west. To the east, the Seine separates it from Montesson. The communal land includes an equal part of an island in the Seine, the .

Outside the town, conjoining with Maisons-Laffitte, the commune includes a second major estate, Carrières-sous-Bois.

The commune is crossed in its southern part by the A14 autoroute, partly underground. This autoroute crosses the Seine on a viaduct of reinforced concrete, forming two parallel bridges.

History[]

Heraldry[]

Arms of Le Mesnil-le-Roi
 The arms of Le Mesnil-le-Roi are blazoned :
Azure, two spurs fesswise lower one contourny undersole straps one against the other intertwined in pale rowelled and buckled Or, and on a chief argent a salamander gules between two fleur-de-lis Or.



This coat of arms, adopted in 1952, derives from the La Salle family, the ancient landowners of Carrières-sous-Bois, and it was given to them by Francis I.

Administration[]

List of successive mayors
Election date Name
Missing results before 2001 are no longer known.
March 2008 Marc Demeure
March 2001 Marc Demeure
May 1995 Marc Demeure
March 1971 Henri-Georges Dupret-Ecuyer

Demography[]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
19685,473—    
19755,680+0.53%
19825,557−0.31%
19906,206+1.39%
19996,207+0.00%
20076,401+0.39%
20126,383−0.06%
20176,292−0.29%
Source: INSEE[3]

Culture[]

War memorial
Forest Gate
Brassens Centre

The town participates in a Concours des villes et villages fleuris ("Towns and Villages in Bloom" competition) and in 2007 won two flowers.[4]

Monuments[]

Church of St Vincent
  • Church of St Vincent: Church in the Flamboyant Gothic style, consecrated on 2 August 1587
  • Château du Val, 17th Century, situated on the edge of the Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, built by the architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart.
  • The Orangery of the Château du Mesnil, situated in a protected zone of POS ND-EBC (Non-cultivable woodland)) which has been converted to 43 private houses
  • Old abandoned mineshafts (Château du Mesnil, now demolished), situated on the edge of the Orangery on the Rue de Général Leclerc
  • Artificial caves (abandoned), ancient glaciers (abandoned) and ruins of canals (now abandoned) in the communal woodlands (Château du Mesnil, now demolished).

Twin towns[]

England England: Newmarket, Suffolk

Famous people[]

  • Émile Littré, bought a house in Mesnil-le-Roi, which he styled "Ménil-le-Roi," in 1847, and stayed there until his death in 1881; it was here that he did the bulk of his work on his great Dictionnaire de la langue française (1872; supplement 1877)[5]
  • , watchmaker
  • Jacques Fath, tailor, born in Mesnil-le-Roi in 1912
  • Serge Gainsbourg, until then Lucien Ginsburg, married Élisabeth Levitsky at Mesnil-le-Roi Town Hall on 3 November 1951. He worked at this time at the Maison Champsfleur (actually an old people's home) as an assistant to young Israeli children whose parents were victims of the Holocaust.
  • Jeanne Bourin, novelist and media personality
  • Louis Pauwels, journalist
  • , Politician, mayor of Mesnil-le-Roi, originator of the canton of Maisons-Laffitte – Le Mesnil-le-Roi – Houilles.

Economy[]

  • Residential community.

See also[]

  • Dennaud, Josianne (1998), Sutton, Alan (ed.), Le Mesnil-Le-Roi, Mémoire en Images, ISBN 2-84253-194-9
  • Communes of the Yvelines department

References[]

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
  3. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  4. ^ "Palmarès du Concours des villes et villages fleuris dans les Yvelines" (in French). Archived from the original on March 14, 2009. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  5. ^ Nicole Savy, Le Siècle des dictionnaires (Paris: Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication/Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1987), p. 23.

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