Les Essarts-le-Roi explained

Les Essarts-le-Roi
Commune Status:Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:Blason ville fr Les Essarts-le-Roi (Yvelines).svg
Arrondissement:Rambouillet
Canton:Rambouillet
Insee:78220
Postal Code:78690
Mayor:Ismaël Nehlil[1]
Term:2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:CA Rambouillet Territoires
Coordinates:48.7175°N 1.8953°W
Elevation M:173
Elevation Min M:115
Elevation Max M:181
Area Km2:19.32

Les Essarts-le-Roi (in French pronounced as /lez‿esaʁ lə ʁwa/) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.

Geography

Les Essarts-le-Roi is bordered by Coignières and Lévis-Saint-Nom to the northeast, Dampierre-en-Yvelines to the east, Senlisse to the southeast, Auffargis to the south, Le Perray-en-Yvelines to the southwest, Les Bréviaires to the west and Saint-Rémy-l'Honoré to the north.

History

An imperial decree in 1814 led to the creation of the commune of Les Essarts-le-Roi by combining the former communes of Essarts and Des Layes.

In 1944, the young Paris-born boy Eddy Palacci received French Resistance radio transmissions for three Allied officers, so they could receive their instructions on when and where to sabotage French railway against Nazi occupying forces.[2]

Demographics

Since the 1980s, Les Essarts-le-Roi has been home to a large number of Vietnamese, who mostly arrived in France following the Vietnam War. While refugees initially settled in Paris, the suburbanization and growing affluence of the population resulted in many moving to outer communes of the Île-de-France region.[3]

Education

The commune has two preschools, Ecole maternelle de La Romanie and Ecole maternelle Pré-Gallot, and two elementary schools, Ecole élémentaire René Coudoint and Ecole élémentaire Roger COLART.[4] Junior high school students are assigned to Collège Les Molières; it has 800 students.[5] Students attend Lycée Louis Bascan in nearby Rambouillet.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.
  2. Web site: L'Ecole Centrale de T.S.F. et ses soldats de l'armée des ombres. Paris Ecole d'ingénieurs. 29 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161030074610/http://www.ece.fr/90ans/lecole-centrale-de-t-s-f-et-ses-soldats-de-larmee-des-ombres. 30 October 2016. dead.
  3. http://www.lechorepublicain.fr/eure-et-loir/actualite/pays/yvelines/2014/02/14/le-nouvel-an-vietnamien-fete-demain_1873291.html Le nouvel an vietnamien fêté demain
  4. "Les Ecoles." Les Essarts-le-Roi. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
  5. "Le Collège ." Les Essarts-le-Roi. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.
  6. "Lycée." Les Essarts-le-Roi. Retrieved on September 4, 2016.