Houdan

Houdan is a French municipality with 3640 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Yvelines in the region Ile-de-France . It belongs to the arrondissement of Mantes-la-Jolie and the canton of Bonnières-sur-Seine . The place is about 25 kilometers southwest of Mantes-la-Jolie on the banks of the Vesgre . The inhabitants are called Houdanais .

Neighboring communities

Gressey in the north, Maulette and Richebourg in the east.

The old spelling of the place name is Hosdench . From the 10th century onwards, Houdan belonged to the Lords of Montfort and thus later to the Dukes of Bretagne , and thus came through the marriage of Anne de Bretagne and Louis XII. to the Domaine royal . Louis XV ceded Houdan to the House of Albert and received land near the park of Versailles .

Population development
year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2009
Residents	2325	2409	2873	2973	2912	3112	3333

Church of St-Jacques-le-Majeur-St-Christophe (15th / 16th century) with the oldest still functioning organ in the Île-de-France (1734), registered as a monument historique since 1840
Donjon as the remainder of the old fortifications that Amaury III. was built by Montfort in the 12th century

Louis-Alexandre Clicquot (1684–1760), builder of the organ in the Saint-Jacques-Saint-Christophe church

Houdan's city partners are:

Saint-Jacques et Saint-Christophe church
Choir of the Saint-Jacques et Saint-Christophe church
Entrance to the church
Frontispiece of the Saint-Jacques et Saint-Christophe church
Donjon
Half-timbered house on Rue d'Épernon, perhaps a former pilgrimage hostel on the Camino de Santiago