Le Chesnay
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| local community | Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt | |
| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Yvelines | |
| Arrondissement | Versailles | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 49 ' N , 2 ° 8' E | |
| Post Code | 78150 | |
| Former INSEE code | 78158 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | http://www.lechesnay.fr/ | |
 City Hall (Mairie) of Le Chesnay |
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Le Chesnay was a French municipality with 27,690 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the Yvelines department in the region Ile-de-France . It belonged to the arrondissement of Versailles and was the capital of the canton of Le Chesnay . The inhabitants are called Chesnaysia .
geography
Le Chesnay is located immediately northeast of the Palace of Versailles . Together with Versailles and other surrounding communities, Le Chesnay forms a closed settlement area in the west of the greater Paris area.
Neighborhoods of Le Chesnay are La Celle-Saint-Cloud in the north, Vaucresson and Marnes-la-Coquette in the northeast, Versailles in the southeast, south and southwest and Rocquencourt in the northwest.
history
On January 1, 2019, Le Chesnay and Rocquencourt were merged to form Commune nouvelle Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt .
Science and Research
The headquarters of the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA) is located in Le Chesnay .
Partnerships
There is a town partnership with the Hessian district town of Heppenheim (Bergstrasse) .
hospital
Personalities
Sons and daughters
- Nicolas Anelka (* 1979), football player
- Tristan Gommendy (* 1980), racing driver
- Kevin Staut (* 1980), show jumper
- Laura Georges (* 1984), soccer player
- Thomas Baroukh (* 1987), lightweight rower
- Youssouf Sabaly (* 1993), football player
- Benoît Kounkoud (* 1997), handball player
Died in Le Chesnay
- Charles Valérand Ragon de Bange (1833–1914), colonel in the artillery and creator of the French gun system at the beginning of the 20th century
- Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (1949-2010), actor and voice actor
- Auguste Bravais (1811-1863), physicist
- Pierre Alexandre le Camus , favorite and temporary statesman
Attractions
- Church of St. Anthony , built in 1910
- Saint-Germain church from 1805
- Notre-Dame-de-la-Résurrection church, built in 1970
- Mormon Temple Paris
- Le Grand Chesnay castle with park
Saint Germain Church
Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue church
Notre-Dame-de-la-Résurrection church
Castle LE Grand Chesnay
See also
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Yvelines. Volume 1, Flohic Editions, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-070-1 , pp. 159-163.
