Things to see and do Hauts-De-Seine

Inaugurated in 1875, the Saint-Urbain Church is then a relief chapel built on a land offered by the heirs of the banker Pierre-Urbain Sartoris. The building is dedicated to the saint who bears one of his first names, to pay tribute to him. The church is transformed several times, and even enlarged, over the next century, particularly with the choir and transept in the 1930 s. Inside, you can see windows of 1987, executed by the art glass Éric Bonte.

The Tower in the figures of Jean Dubuffet, which is seen from each bank of the Seine, dominates the 21.5 ha of the park's surface with its vivid colors. The gardens are planned to allow the natural development of vegetation to promote the appearance of spontaneous plant species and protect wildlife. With a little luck, you can see the Martin fisherman. You can also see the vegetal wall installed on the back façade of the old bakery on the island. In short, it is the ideal place to get the illusion of being in the countryside. There are walks, sportsmen, families, strollers and beautiful days, the lawn is dressed by a population that is bronze, quite simply. Finally, throughout the year, the park becomes the theater of cultural events: concerts, carnival party. Nearby, Ile Seguin, which turns at high speed. Many spectators from the "Seine Musicale" walk before or after, with the same interest in these places.

The Grande Arche de la Frères, more known as the Grande Arche de la Défense, was built from 1983. It was inaugurated in 1989, at the double opportunity of the Revolution and the G 7 Summit. This cube balsa in its medium, 110,9 metres high, 112 metres long and 106,6 metres wide, is not really in the historical axis of Paris, with which it forms an angle at 6,33 °. From a practical point of view, Erik Reitzel, a Danish engineer engineer, had to install the foundations of the Ark structure in such a way that the motorway and the existing railway lines are respected, as well as the extension company on line 1 of the Paris metro. From a symbolic point of view, the Danish architect Johann Otto von Ordered created this angle of 6 ° 33 in order to highlight the volume of the Grande Arche and to restore the existing gap between the Square Court of the Louvre and the place de la Concorde. To access its terrace, which offers an extraordinary panoramic view of Paris and its surroundings, you can enjoy an impressive translucent elevator! It also includes the computer museum, which has more than two hundred coins in the past not so distant. The interest of the collection will, of course, increase as time goes by, but the younger ones will be surprised to discover the first computers or the beginnings of the Internet.

It is a beautiful building that will welcome you for all your daily activities. The city hall is located in the heart of the city, on this busy avenue de la République. Surrounded by a small park, it offers various services, such as communication, the press and media centre, events and participatory democracy. Please note that administrative matters are handled at the administrative centre located on Edmond Champeaux Street, just behind the main town hall.

François-René de Chateaubriand bought this magnificent mansion, strangely named la Vallée-aux-Loups, in 1807. He was very attached to his "dear valley", his park, his vegetation, which he took great care of: " I was going, with hooves, planting my trees in the mud, seeing and reviewing all the small corners, hiding me wherever there was a thicket. " In the house, one crosses famous ghosts, from the beautiful Madame Récamier to the painters David, Girodet-Trioson, the famous rest bed of the Jacob-Desmalter immortalized by David's painting, or that of the scandalous madame de Staël before her forced exile in Switzerland… See absolutely: the charming Velléda tower, a small pavilion nestled in the park, which served as a work and library office in Chateaubriand. He écopa the nickname Velléda in memory of one of the martyrs'heroines, an epic novel that the writer wrote to the Vallée-aux-Loups.

The toddlers will be enchanted by the "fine stories of Sunday afternoon": At 16 a. m., a speaker tells a story or tale, in the park, the library or the video room. A mystery of a th century tale, daydreams by a young Chateaubriand, programming changes regularly (free activity).

In this cemetery are buried soldiers who died during the two world wars: 1,541 during the first, 24 during the second, and a wall of the disappeared that perpetuates the memory of 974 people who were never found. It is the only one dedicated to the American dead of these conflicts. Unlike other military cemeteries, this one was installed not near a battlefield but because of the proximity of the hospitals, where the soldiers were treated. It was inaugurated in 1919 by the President of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, American General John-Joseph Pershing and French Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The chapel built in 1932 was enlarged in 1952. During opening hours, a person is always available at the reception desk to welcome and inform visitors who wish to reflect, or simply walk around this three-hectare memorial site.

Facing Grande-Rue is the main entrance, preceded by a courtyard, closed by a high wrought iron grid. The building was built around 1753 according to the plans made by Lindet and Perronet on the location of the Ferme farm. In the Court of Honour, the flag of "Lully" is the only remnant of La Guyarde farm; Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer and chamber music superintendent of Louis XIV, would have lived there. In the east of the courtyard, the king's apartments occupied the angle of the building. In the same building is the Guard Hall, it opens on the entrance entrance, the large paved courtyard closed by the King's grid which gave on the road to Bellevue. A monumental fountain of stone orne that one. The Higher Standard School created to train female teachers: «Les Sévriennes», settled in the renovated buildings of the old factory in 1881. Marie Curie provided a physics course from 1900 to 1906. Today, and since 1945, the old factory houses the International Centre for Educational Studies, the main partner of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs for the French language.

Located in a wood, this madness was built by a rich chocolate maker at the end of the 19th century. When he died, his daughter, a Carmelite, temporarily founded a convent there. During the First World War, it hosted a clandestine ball. Raymond Radiguet (1903-1923) described the castle of his novel "Le Bal du comte d'Orgel" on the basis of this location. This neo-Gothic residence was destroyed by fires in 1977 and 1978. In 1984, a demolition permit was even granted, fortunately, it was never implemented, allowing the municipality to keep this mysterious and historically charged area. Today, the place is a pleasant - and sometimes romantic - place for Sunday walks. The mind filled with the tumultuous stories of this place, to you a moment a little out of time!

The Cité Basse is one of the garden cities built in the Parisian region after the First World War. From the 1926-1930 s, the architect Payret-Dortail and his students built housing to respond to the influx of new populations accompanying the economic expansion of this commune near Paris. These social housing units have specific objectives: to install maximum material comfort, to avoid dormitory cities at all costs, to involve the social classes as much as possible and, above all, to ban the uniformity of buildings in order to give room for individual personalization. Finally, the presence of greenery, rare for the time!

Imperative and nightmare of motorists: " the circuit ", as the people of Defence call it, is exclusively reserved for motor vehicles. A horse on two villages, Ce and Courbevoie, this round road feeds the A 14 and A 86 motorways or Charles de Gaulle Avenue. A forced passage to the Defence by car. Note that a bicycle path is being carried out, which humanises Defence a little.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: see contact information for Espace Info Défense. For car parks: www.parkingsladefense.fr.

The Hôtel de Ville is a public building housing the administrative services of the town hall. The address is 6 avenue Le Corbeiller, 92190 Meudon. A town hall annex is also available in Meudon-la-Forêt, at Place Henry-Wolf, Avenue du Général de Gaulle, 92360 Meudon-la-Forêt.

At the beginning of the Second Empire, Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) settled in the home of his father, the former controller of contributions. The man of letters, including Captain Smashes, lives there with his daughter Judith, the fruit of his love with the Italian singer Ernesta Grisi. This small house is today the chaplaincy of the young people of Montrouge Church. She receives Catholic university students from the city.

Schedules are subject to change, so check before you go.

Mount Valérien is known mainly for its fort and the American cemetery. But it also houses the barracks where the 8 ^th French transmission Regiment is stationed and has retained a very beautiful military pettiness, the only one in France. He also participates in civil competitions, because yes, big is also a sport and serves not only to send messages in hostile times. The museum devoted to it contains a wealth of historical treasures elsewhere elsewhere and presents in an educational way the history of big from antiquity to day, giving a large space to the military activities of the travellers'pigeons during the last conflicts. A very informative documentary film can also be projected.