Coordinates: 48°46′39″N 2°00′09″E / 48.7775°N 2.0025°E / 48.7775; 2.0025

Trappes 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 26.7 km (16.6 mi) from the center in the new town of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

Trappes is served by Trappes station on the Transilien La Défense and Transilien Paris – Montparnasse suburban rail lines.

Born on 24 October 1981 at Croix (Nord) , Florian Philippot is a French politician, a lawyer by profession and beside Louis Aliot, the vice-president of the Front National since 12 July 2012..

Manuel Valls (French: [manyɛl vals], Catalan: [mənuˈɛɫ ˈβaʎs], born August 13, 1962) is a French Socialist Party (PS) politician, deputy since 2002 and mayor of Évry. On May 16, 2012 he was appointed Minister of the Interior (Homeland security) in the French government of Jean-Marc Ayrault.

Valls was born in Barcelona, Spain, and became a naturalized French citizen in 1982. He is a prominent supporter of F.C. Barcelona, the famous club whose anthem was composed by a namesake of his, the cousin of his father. As reported on the Swiss Newspapers last week he is the son of a Spanish citizen, while his mother is a Ticinese, Swiss-Italian from Valle di Blenio, Canton Ticino.

After serving as an advisor on youth issues for Prime Minister Michel Rocard from 1988 to 1991, he was communications advisor to Prime Minister Lionel Jospin from 1997 to 2001.

He sought the PS nomination for President of France in the 2012 election. Finally ranked 5th of the first round of the PS primary, he called for a François Hollande vote in the second round. Valls is often considered in France as a representative of the social-liberal wing of the French Socialist Party, sharing common orientations with Scandinavian style Social Democracy and Blairism.