Travel Guide Parmain

A small detour on the other side of the Oise river leads us to Parmain. You can go through the centuries in no time at all. We start in prehistoric times: on one of the hiking trails in the surrounding forest, we will come across a fascinating "polisher", a large stone marked with grooves on which our ancestors sharpened their tools. We go through the Merovingians (6th-7th centuries): the activity of the locality is then in full swing. We are reaching the Middle Ages. The town - or rather the parish - was then called Jouy-le-Comte and was organised around the church built in the 12th century. Joan of Arc would have stopped there in the middle of the Hundred Years' War. At the end of the 17th century, the princes of Conti settled in L'Isle-Adam built a small castle, a park and a vast vegetable garden in the village, which remained active until the Revolution. The railway arrived in the 19th century: the town developed. In 1893, it was named Parmain, originally a hamlet dependent on Jouy.