Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Houilles
Commune in Île-de-France, France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Houilles (French pronunciation: [uj] ⓘ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is a northwestern suburb of Paris, located 14.2 km (8.8 mi) from the center of Paris.
Remove ads
History
Until 2000, the command post of the French Navy's Ballistic Missile Submarine Force was based at Houilles.
Victor Schœlcher, a French abolitionist writer in the 19th century and the main spokesman for a group from Paris who worked for the abolition of slavery died in Houilles on 25 December 1893. A nursery school, a street and a statue carry his name. The house in which he died in 1893 is at 26 Avenue Schœlcher. The commune of Houilles acquired the house in 2011.
Remove ads
Population
Remove ads
Transport
Houilles is served by Houilles–Carrières-sur-Seine station on Paris RER line A and on the Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare suburban rail line.
Education
Houilles has fifteen preschool and elementary schools and three junior high schools.[5]
Junior high schools:
- Collège Alphonse-de-Lamartine
- Collège Guy-de-Maupassant
- Collège Sainte-Thérèse
Nearby senior high schools/sixth form colleges:[5]
- Lycée Les-Pierres-Vives (Carrières-sur-Seine)
- Lycée Jules-Verne (Sartrouville)
- Lycée Évariste-Galois (Sartrouville)
International relations
Celorico de Basto, Portugal
Chesham, England, United Kingdom
Friedrichsdorf, Germany
Schœlcher, Martinique, France
See also
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads