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Poissy
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Location within Île-de-France region  Poissy
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Yvelines
Arrondissement	Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Canton	Poissy-Nord & Poissy-Sud
Mayor	Frédérik Bernard (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	17–171 m (56–561 ft) (avg. 27 m or 89 ft)
Land area1	13.28 km2 (5.13 sq mi)
Population2	36,230  (2006)
- Density	2,728 /km2 (7,070 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	78498/ 78300
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 48°55′46″N 2°02′44″E / 48.9294°N 2.0456°E / 48.9294; 2.0456

Poissy is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris 23.8 km (14.8 mi) from the center.

In 1561 it was the site of a fruitless Catholic-Huguenot conference, the Colloquy at Poissy. It is known for hosting successively Automobiles Gregoire, Matford, Ford SAF, Simca, Chrysler, Talbot factories, now one of France's largest Peugeot factories. Inhabitants are called Pisciacais.

Transport[link]

Poissy is served by Poissy station on Paris RER line A and on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line.

Economy[link]

Main companies[link]

• Automobile :
  • PSA Peugeot Citroën
  • Wagon Automotive (équipementier automobile)
  • Mahle Aftermarket
  • Faurecia
  • Siemens VDO Automotive

• Rochas (Procter & Gamble)
• Environnement SA
• Transport and logistics:
  • GEFCO
  • Elidis
  • KDI Promet
  • Trapil
• Wattelez
• Casino cafétéria
• Groupe Derichebourg,

PSA Peugeot-Citroën

Technoparc[link]

Technoparc is a district with economic vocation created in 1990, intended to facilitate the economic diversification of the city; occupying twenty seven hectares in the northeast of the PSA Peugeot Citroën factory, on the verge of the vommune of Achères. He welcomes hundred fifty companies employing 2000 employees. The Charles-de-Gaulle high school and the training center of the employees in pharmacy (ACPPAV) teach 1500 high school students and students. We find there among others two business incubator, a heliport, the Chambre de Commerce Yvelines-Val d'Oise, two hotels, a gymnasium and a municipal technical center.

Highlights[link]

Dimanche à Poissy by Meissonier, 1851

• Villa Savoye, considered by many to be the seminal work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier.

• The "Noyau de Poissy" is a liquor based on macerated or distilled apricot pits, a local tradition since early 18th century.^[1]

Culture[link]

Museums[link]

• Musée du jouet, shows 800 games and toys dating between 1850 and 1950.
• Musée d'art et d'histoire.

Cultural facilities[link]

• La salle Molière (theater);
• Cinema;
• Library Christine de Pizan;
• Library André-Malraux.

International relations[link]

Twin towns — Sister cities[link]

Poissy is twinned with:

• Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, since 1964.

Movies[link]

• La Porteuse de pain (1963) ;
• La Demoiselle d'Avignon (1972) ;
• La Tribu (1990)
• Les Grands Ducs (1996) ;
• Le Ciel, les oiseaux et... ta mère ! (1998)
• Le Cerveau
• From Paris with Love (2009)

People[link]

• Saint Louis (1214–1270), king of France
• Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier(1815–1891), painter, sculptor and mayor of Poissy
• Félix Févola (1882–1953), sculptor
• Nimetigna Keita handball player
• Catherine Lara, singer born in 1945
• Houssine Kharja, Moroccan football player born in 1982
• Benjamin Franklin resided in Poissy for a time while Envoy to France during the American Revolutionary War.
• Yohann Sangare,basketball player

Sport[link]

• The golf of Béthemont
• Stadium Léo-Lagrange, built in 1945
• Swimming pool des Migneaux and swimming pool Saint-Exupéry

• AS Poissy

See also[link]

• Communes of the Yvelines department

References[link]

• INSEE

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Poissy

• Poissy website (in French)
• Collegiale de Poissy The birth city of Saint Louis

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v t e Communes of the Yvelines department Ablis Achères Adainville Aigremont Allainville Les Alluets-le-Roi Andelu Andrésy Arnouville-lès-Mantes Aubergenville Auffargis Auffreville-Brasseuil Aulnay-sur-Mauldre Auteuil Autouillet Bailly Bazainville Bazemont Bazoches-sur-Guyonne Béhoust Bennecourt Beynes Blaru Boinville-en-Mantois Boinville-le-Gaillard Boinvilliers Bois-d'Arcy Boissets La Boissière-École Boissy-Mauvoisin Boissy-sans-Avoir Bonnelles Bonnières-sur-Seine Bouafle Bougival Bourdonné Breuil-Bois-Robert Bréval Les Bréviaires Brueil-en-Vexin Buc Buchelay Bullion Carrières-sous-Poissy Carrières-sur-Seine La Celle-les-Bordes La Celle-Saint-Cloud Cernay-la-Ville Chambourcy Chanteloup-les-Vignes Chapet Châteaufort Chatou Chaufour-lès-Bonnières Chavenay Le Chesnay Chevreuse Choisel Civry-la-Forêt Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines Les Clayes-sous-Bois Coignières Condé-sur-Vesgre Conflans-Sainte-Honorine Courgent Cravent Crespières Croissy-sur-Seine Dammartin-en-Serve Dampierre-en-Yvelines Dannemarie Davron Drocourt Ecquevilly Élancourt Émancé Épône Les Essarts-le-Roi L'Étang-la-Ville Évecquemont La Falaise Favrieux Feucherolles Flacourt Flexanville Flins-Neuve-Église Flins-sur-Seine Follainville-Dennemont Fontenay-le-Fleury Fontenay-Mauvoisin Fontenay-Saint-Père Fourqueux Freneuse Gaillon-sur-Montcient Galluis Gambais Gambaiseuil Garancières Gargenville Gazeran Gommecourt Goupillières Goussonville Grandchamp Gressey Grosrouvre Guernes Guerville Guitrancourt Guyancourt Hardricourt Hargeville La Hauteville Herbeville Hermeray Houdan Houilles Issou Jambville Jeufosse Jouars-Pontchartrain Jouy-en-Josas Jouy-Mauvoisin Jumeauville Juziers Lainville-en-Vexin Lévis-Saint-Nom Limay Limetz-Villez Les Loges-en-Josas Lommoye Longnes Longvilliers Louveciennes Magnanville Magny-les-Hameaux Maisons-Laffitte Mantes-la-Jolie Mantes-la-Ville Marcq Mareil-le-Guyon Mareil-Marly Mareil-sur-Mauldre Marly-le-Roi Maule Maulette Maurecourt Maurepas Médan Ménerville Méré Méricourt Le Mesnil-le-Roi Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis Les Mesnuls Meulan Mézières-sur-Seine Mézy-sur-Seine Millemont Milon-la-Chapelle Mittainville Moisson Mondreville Montainville Montalet-le-Bois Montchauvet Montesson Montfort-l'Amaury Montigny-le-Bretonneux Morainvilliers Mousseaux-sur-Seine Mulcent Les Mureaux Neauphle-le-Château Neauphle-le-Vieux Neauphlette Nézel Noisy-le-Roi Oinville-sur-Montcient Orcemont Orgerus Orgeval Orphin Orsonville Orvilliers Osmoy Paray-Douaville Le Pecq Perdreauville Le Perray-en-Yvelines Plaisir Poigny-la-Forêt Poissy Ponthévrard Porcheville Le Port-Marly Port-Villez Prunay-en-Yvelines Prunay-le-Temple La Queue-les-Yvelines Raizeux Rambouillet Rennemoulin Richebourg Rochefort-en-Yvelines Rocquencourt Rolleboise Rosay Rosny-sur-Seine Sailly Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines Saint-Cyr-l'École Sainte-Mesme Saint-Forget Saint-Germain-de-la-Grange Saint-Germain-en-Laye Saint-Hilarion Saint-Illiers-la-Ville Saint-Illiers-le-Bois Saint-Lambert Saint-Léger-en-Yvelines Saint-Martin-de-Bréthencourt Saint-Martin-des-Champs Saint-Martin-la-Garenne Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse Saint-Rémy-l'Honoré Sartrouville Saulx-Marchais Senlisse Septeuil Soindres Sonchamp Tacoignières Le Tartre-Gaudran Le Tertre-Saint-Denis Tessancourt-sur-Aubette Thiverval-Grignon Thoiry Tilly Toussus-le-Noble Trappes Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre Triel-sur-Seine Vaux-sur-Seine Vélizy-Villacoublay Verneuil-sur-Seine Vernouillet La Verrière Versailles Vert Le Vésinet Vicq Vieille-Église-en-Yvelines La Villeneuve-en-Chevrie Villennes-sur-Seine Villepreux Villette Villiers-le-Mahieu Villiers-Saint-Fréderic Viroflay Voisins-le-Bretonneux

Adrienne Bolland (1896 – 18 March 1975) was a French test pilot and the first woman to fly over the Andes.

Bolland flew across the English Channel on 25 August 1920.

In 1921, Bolland worked as a test pilot for Caudron. The flight over the Andes was a publicity stunt to promote the new G3 model of the French aircraft manufacturer. Bolland started on 1 April 1921 in Mendoza, Argentina and kept a flight level of 14,750 feet (4500 m), which meant she had to fly around some of the mountains. After a 10 hours flight, she landed in Santiago de Chile. Many people had gathered to celebrate the feat — notably missing was the French consul who believed it was an April Fool's Day joke.

References[link]

• Aviadores Chilenos y Argentinos Tras el Cruce de los Andes, 1913–1922

External links[link]

• Adrienne Bolland (1896-1975)
• (French) La Traversée de la Cordillère des Andes, by Adrienne Bolland

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