Meulan-en-Yvelines

Meulan-en-Yvelines
Town hall (Hôtel de ville)
Coat of arms
Meulan-en-Yvelines
Location within Île-de-France region Meulan-en-Yvelines
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Yvelines
Arrondissement	Mantes-la-Jolie
Canton	Meulan
Intercommunality	Vexin-Seine
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Guy Poirier
Area1	3.46 km2 (1.34 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	8,803
• Density	2,500/km2 (6,600/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	78401 / 78250
Elevation	18–117 m (59–384 ft) (avg. 25 m or 82 ft)
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.

Meulan-en-Yvelines (formerly Meulan) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It hosted part of the sailing events for the 1900 Summer Olympics held in neighboring Paris, and would do so again twenty-four years later.

History

In 1435 as a part of the Hundred Years' War, Ambroise de Loré and Jean de Dunois defeated the English nearby.

Heraldry

The Coat of Arms of Meulan-en-Yvelines is blazoned as:

Azure semy-de-lys or, a chief chequy or and gules of four tiers.

The shield of arms is composed of the ancient arms of France, granted to the village as an augmentation of honour by Henri IV in 1590, with a chief displaying the first four tiers of the chequy or and gules arms of the ancient Counts of Meulan.

People

• Abdoulaye Doucoure, footballer
• Frederic Esther, boxer
• Kevin Mendy, basketball player
• Thierry Théolier, artist
• M'Baye Niang, footballer
• Ibrahim Sacko, footballer
• Maurice Thiriet, (1906–1972) -composer
• Yannick Zachee, basketball player
• David Douillet, judoka

Twin towns

Meulan is twinned with;

• • Kilsyth, United Kingdom
  • Taufkirchen (bei München), Germany
  • Arraiolos, Portugal

See also

• Communes of the Yvelines department

References

• Sports-reference.com Summer Olympics Paris 20 May 1900 sailing mixed open results. Accessed 14 November 2010.
• 1924 Olympics official report. pp. 582–3. (French)