Parmain is a small town francilienne Val-d'Oise, located on Right Bank of the Oise, with thirty kilometers as the crow flies in the north of Paris. The commune, with the primarily residential character, fact part of the natural and historical area of the French Vexin and is founding member of the regional natural park same name. It trains with Isle-Adam, his chief town of canton located on other bank of the river and with which it divides its station, a small agglomeration of approximately: 16000 inhabitants. Its inhabitants are Parminois and Parminoises.

Geography

General information

Located at the northern center of the department of the Val-d'Oise, the commune of Parmain is in the valley of Oise, to the extreme is French Vexin, with the confluence of the Sausseron and Oise, with ten kilometers in the North-East of Pontoise and with thirty-five kilometers in the south of Beauvais. Parmain is regarded as belonging to the urban surface of Paris.

The communes bordering on Parmain are, in the east, Isle-Adam on left bank of Oise and its islands, in the north Hédouville, with which the commune does not have a direct road link, and Champagne-on-Oise, in the west Nesles-the-Valley and the south Valmondois.

Its occupied territory 920 hectares (9,2 km ²), which is higher than the average of the Valley of Oise (673 hectares, is 6,73 km ²). However, the population density in the commune of 573 inhabitants to the km ² is lower than the average of the department (887 inhabitants with the km ²). It is however largely higher than the average of density of the territory constituting the Regional natural park of French Vexin (132 inhabitants with the km ²). Indeed, Parmain is one of the most populated communes park - only Auvers-sur-Oise, Magny-in-Vexin and Gargenville (Yvelines) counts more inhabitants - while at the same time it is located in lower part of the average of population per commune of the Val-d'Oise (which is of: 6205 inhabitants). Within its canton, in terms of population, Parmain is the commune most populated behind its Chef-lieu and accounts for 20% of the population of the canton. In terms of surface, the commune constitutes 16% of them. The inhabited territory can be divided into several parts:

  • the hamlets of Jouy-the-Count, Boulonville and the locality of the Grand Valley located at the North-West along the valley of the Ru of Jouy constitute the historical heart of the establishment on the communal territory.
  • the district of the station and the town hall, on Oise, opposite the island of the Priory, constitutes the current center town developed at the 19th century thanks to the arrival of the Railroad.
  • the southern districts along Oise, the Seams, the Valley of Oise, are more recent centres of population which accommodate the college of the commune and a small commercial zone.
  • In the west of the territory communal, a center of populations in wood, bordering on the dwellings of Valmondois, skirts the coast of Nazes.

The remainder of the territory of the commune, in the west and north, on the relative heights of the plate of Vexin (the unevenness between the lowest zone of the commune and the highest zone reaches 122 meters all the same), consists of wooded areas (wood Messier, Gannetin wood, the cross of the Greens) and of cultures or meadows crossed by hiking trails. Beyond the historical hamlets in north, the territory continues at a peak until the Bois of the Tower of Lay, including/understanding part of the departmental forest of the same name.

Geology, relief and pollution of the grounds

The basement of the commune is overall that of the French Vexin, which includes/understands several types of rocks like the Craie, oldest, going back to approximately 80 , year million Calcaire going back to 60 million years, hones to build vexinoise par excellence, the sandstone bartonien (40 million years) or the Meulière (25 million years to more). The sedimentary layers are notched by the valleys of the Oise and the Sausseron.

The geographical location of Parmain makes the commune particularly vulnerable to natural risks: old zones of careers in its basement constitute risks of collapse in urban environment. On the other hand, the commune is subjected at no risk of movement of ground related to the dissolution of the Gypse (risk running in the Val-d'Oise). More important, the alluvial plain, in particular upstream and downstream, of the center of the commune is at the consecutive risk of Inondation to a Crue of Oise. The territory of Parmain is with horse between the valley of Oise in the east and the plate of Vexin in the west. This characteristic explains the strong unevenness observed between the highest point low (24 meters) and more of the commune (146 meters). In the west, the limit with the steepsided valley of Sausseron (on the commune of Valmondois) is marked by the coast of Nazes and the coast of Orgivaux.

The commune includes/understands no site listed on the database of the ministry for ecology relating to the sites and grounds polluted (or potentially polluted) calling an action of the public authorities, with preventive measure or curative (BASOL). This is undoubtedly explained by the low number of industrial sites being established on the communal territory. Indeed, Parmain comprises only six listed sites whereas the common neighbors of comparable size of Champagne-on-Oise and Auvers-sur-Oise count twelve and thirty respectively of them.

Hydrography

The territory of Parmain skirts Right Bank (or west) of Oise on a distance of approximately 3 km. The river there is marked out of three islands, pertaining to the territory of Isle-Adam, the island of the Priory, is occupied formerly by the successive castles of the lords of Isle-Adam and Parmain, the island of the Mob, and the island of the derivation, is empty of construction, on the level of which a stopping and a lock are on the river.

Right before its mouth, Sausseron marks the communal limit between Parmain and Valmondois in the south, then is thrown in Oise. The communal territory is also crossed by two small rivers: Brook of marsh of are worth, which is born in Champagne-on-Oise, length of hardly eight hundred meters, which is thrown to Parmain in the Ru of Jouy, which curves on three kilometers in the east of the hamlets of Jouy-the-Count and Boulonville before being thrown in Oise in extreme cases with Champagne-on-Oise, face with Isle-Adam. Between these two rivers, before the brook is not thrown in Ru, is a small water level.

The commune is fed out of water by the station of treatment of Cassan, is located with Isle-Adam, is managed by the company Lyonnaise of water. The drinking water of Parmain is of very good quality bacteriological, containing few Nitrates, hard and not very fluorinated. The water distributed to Parmain is of underground origin.

Located at the edge of Oise, the territory of Parmain is concerned with the risks of Inondation of Oise. The prevention plan of the risks of flood of the Val-d'Oise takes into account this risk of river flood. The commune suffers very occasionally from problems involved in the Ruissellement but does not have problems involved in increase of tablecloths. A station of advertisement of the risings is located with Isle-Adam.

Climate

Parmain, like all the Ile-de-France, is subjected to a degraded oceanic Climat. It intramurally is different from the climate of Paris by a variation in temperature of a few degrees, particularly notable at daybreak, and which tends to be accentuated with the passing of years. This variation, of 2° on average but which can reach 8° by one night clear and a weak Vent, is explained by the urban density which increases the temperature in the middle of the agglomeration. The annual average temperature is of 11°C, the month more the cold is January with +4°C; the hottest months are July and August with +19°C (average day laborer).

Occupation of the territory

The communal territory, all in length, extend on approximately 6,5 kilometers from north in the south but does not exceed 2 kilometers in width. It is primarily rural (74%).

Urban space is composed in very great majority (85,7%) of individual habitat and not-built spaces (parks, gardens, vacant). The collective habitats represented in 1999 only 0,1% of communal urban space. In the south of the station, the individual residences gain in surface as they move away from the river. The residential districts of the district of the Valley of Oise and the public gardens of the Arcades include/understand less vast residences thus (joint houses, gardens of small size) that those of the streets located at the west of the secondary road 4, on the slopes, which constitute sometimes true small fields out of calcareous stone of Vexin or grinding. The hamlets of Jouy-the-Count, Boulonville and the current center face with Isle-Adam include/understand the oldest habitats.

The commune does not have parks of activities nor of retail parks of scale, those being located in the neighbouring communes of Isle-Adam or Chambly.

Communications and transport

Road infrastructures The most important ways which cross the commune are two secondary roads.

The secondary Road 4, connects Parmain to Valmondois and Champagne-on-Oise of north in the south. It continues in the south while following Oise by Valmondois, Butry-on-Oise and Auvers-sur-Oise until Pontoise and in north until Persan by Champagne-on-Oise.

The secondary road 64 connects as for it Parmain to Isle-Adam and with Nesles-the-Valley of is in west. It continues in the east through Isle-Adam until the Trunk road 184, right before the junction with the trunk road 1 and the highway A16, prosecutor nevertheless until Presles under the name of D64E, and in the west until Marines, in the middle of the French Vexin, while crossing, after Nesles-the-Valley, the communes of Labbeville, Vallangoujard, Epiais-Rhus, Grisy-the-Plasters and Bréançon.

railway Infrastructures and public transport

The commune is crossed north in the south along Oise by the railway line two-track Paris parks North - Persan-Beaumont via Valmondois. This axis constitutes a joint base on this section with the transverse line Pontoise - Creil.

The commune is served by the Gare of Isle-Adam - Parmain, located on the communal territory. This station ensures only one passenger service of suburbs. The railway services are ensured by the Transilien of the SNCF, line H. Persan-Beaumont run times towards and Paris are respectively of 9 and 48 minutes in the non-stop trains fastest. However, few trains are direct, primarily with the rush hours, the majority of the ways requiring a change in Gare of Valmondois. It is also possible to borrow a non-stop train Paris - Persan-Beaumont (FOR THE THIRD TIME Picardy) then the Pontoise line - Creil for one run time sometimes slightly lower according to the correspondences.

The south of the commune is closer to the Gare of Valmondois than of that of Isle-Adam - Parmain whereas the inhabitants of the hamlets of north can use the Gare of Champagne-on-Oise.

Two lines of the Réseau of bus Busval of Oise serve Parmain. Line 95.07 (Cergy-Prefecture - Church of Jouy-the-Count) finishes in Parmain. It is coming from Cergy-Prefecture via Pontoise, Auvers-sur-Oise, Butry-on-Oise and Valmondois (station) and includes/understands six stops of the south in north on the territory of the commune (College, Coutures, Arcades, Mairie, the Orchard, Église of Jouy-the-Count). Line 95.16 in its Vallangoujard way - Isle-Adam Grand Valley marks as for it two stops with Parmain (College, Coutures).

These various terrestrial infrastructures have an impact relatively limited in sound term of Pollution except for the railway which is classified of category 2 (high) according to the regulation. The only classified road way (the secondary road 4) is of category 4 (3 on a short section in north).

Access to the closest airports

By the road, Parmain is with 37 kilometers in the west of the airport Aéroport Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle, with 16 kilometers in the east of the Aéroport of Pontoise - Cormeilles-in-Vexin and with 52 kilometers in the south of the Aéroport of Paris Beauvais Tillé.

Paths and various

The rural communal territory is furrowed maintained hiking trails. Among the circuits passing by the commune one can note, in addition to famous GR1:

  • the path of the heathers
  • the path of the molten well
  • the path of the cross of the greens
  • the path of Right Bank of the Oise and the valley of Sausseron
  • the path top of Champagne
  • the path of the Wood of the Tower of Lay
  • the path of the bottom of Valmillon

The edges of Oise in the south of the commune were arranged to allow walks along the river.

Lines with high voltage connecting Persan to Pontoise cross the north of the commune, just in the north of the Large Valley.

Heraldic

History of Parmain and Jouy-the-Count

Toponymy

Parmeng with the the Middle Ages then Parmin under the Old Mode before taking its current form, the name of the commune undoubtedly comes from Latin leave minor , meaning “small portion”. This direction can come historically from its quality of modest hamlet considered a long time as a simple appendix of the seigniory of Isle-Adam, one of his small portions. Another interpretation of the origin of the name of the commune would be the homophon parmain , term of former French indicating a variety of Poire.

Jouy-the-count comes from the Latin name Gaudius with which the suffix acum is associated. Later, one adds “the Count”, to distinguish the parish from another Jouy, located close to Bernes-on-Oise and disappeared today.

Origins

The site of the city is occupied since times Paléolithique S and Neolithic S. Of the tools found in the ground of the commune and visible with the communal museum testifies some, just like the Neolithic burial located on the territory of the commune, said the hole to dead (historic building). Gallo-Roman vestiges and Mérovingiens indicate a continuous occupation in time of what will become the commune.

The first mention of Parmain and Jouy-the-count goes up with 1228, it comes from an act, a donation, of Jehan de Parmeng, knight, with the Cistercian abbey of Notre-Dame of the Valley. This character is very ignored. The seal suspended with this act preserved at the public records gave to Parmain its armorial bearings. According to Bernard Baray , another knight is quoted in a document of the same time under the name of Eudes de Jouy, also attesting seniority of Jouy-the-Count.

Parmain, like Isle-Adam, was a time under the suzerainty of the Abbaye of Saint-Denis. The church of Jouy-the-Count, built at the 13th century, is dedicated to Denis saint and formed part with the Middle Ages of the Diocèse of Beauvais. To the place justice says, on the plate which dominates Jouy-the-Count, of stone sealings intended to support the guillotine were found, proof that the counts de Beaumont returned justice, and carried out it, in the village. The Templiers had a Commanderie with Jouy-the-Count.
A Moulin was built on the bridge which connected Parmain with Isle-Adam by the island of the Priory at the beginning of the 16th century. When in 1669 the castle of Isle-Adam is victim of a Incendie, the princess of Conti, Anne Marie Martinozzi, gives up it and moves into a house close to the church of Jouy. She then makes build the presbytery and restore the church of the village.

Historically, whereas Parmain belonged to the successive lords of Isle-Adam (Adam, Villiers, the Montmorency, the Condé and finally the Conti) and were used primarily of Potager and place of cultures for these noble, Jouy-the-Count and Boulonville were grounds of the counts of Beaumont. The seigniory of Jouy-the-Count is allocated on February 3rd 1552 by a sentence of the requests of the Palate to Anne de Montmorency, constable of France and lord of Isle-Adam. The other grounds of the county of Beaumont will be bought by Conti at the 18th century. Thus, the two entities which constitute the current commune were initially distinct before being joined together under the authority of the same lords. With the birth of the commune to the Revolution, it is separated of Isle-Adam, and takes the name of Jouy-the-Count and not of Parmain, always looked like a hamlet.

The territory of Parmain was integrated in the arranged whole of the field of the Conti. Thus, a small castle, destroyed in 1812 and located opposite the current station at the site of the post office and the town hall, was built by the princes, to place the intendant of their field, then their guests. A bridge, known as the Vert bridge, which succeeded a medieval drawbridge, connected it to the principal castle on the island of the priory. The castle of Parmain, however simple appendix, was surrounded by a vast garden, a kitchen garden and an orchard. Only the cellars remain today, under the building of the Post office.

With the Revolution, a middle-class militia is made up with Jouy-the-Count. It is armed with rifles of princes de Conti found in its stables. This militia will constitute one of the four companies of the National guard of Isle-Adam and will remain based in the commune. Jouy-the-count is set up in commune of the Canton of Isle-Adam in March 1790. In 1791, the National guard again undergoes a recasting, the battalion of Isle-Adam is created, qualified on the communes of Jouy-the-Count, Villiers-Adam and Mériel. It is composed of seven companies of fusiliers and one of pomegranates.

See also: Isle-Adam

Since the 19th century

The commune follows a discrete but constant development during the century. One can quote some stakes, symbols of the transformation of the communal life during the century of the Industrialization, which in itself, has, in addition, little concerned Parmain.

Until the First Empire, the commune does not have any school. This one is besides at the time neither free, nor obligatory, the schooling costs a franc per month for the training of the reading, twenty-five centimes for the writing and the same amount for calculation. The winter, each pupil must bring his log for the heating of the class. The first teacher of Parmain, named Fauchon, takes his functions in 1804. The teachers just like the priests remain then very a long time in place: only three Masters follow one another until in 1900.

Of 1815 at the beginning of the Years 1840, a Ceramic manufacture of , founded in particular by the father of the painter adamois Jules Dupre, gives a certain prosperity to the commune. It is the only industry of scale which was established there, and this during hardly twenty-five years. In 1828, Mrs Ducamp makes build a beautiful property in edge of the Oise which becomes later the town hall. Of 1829 with 1832, a stopping and a lock are set up on Oise downstream from the island of the Priory. In 1832, France is struck by a great epidemic of Choléra; this one touches very moderately Isle-Adam while it kills twenty-three inhabitants of Auvers-sur-Oise during only May… and makes eighteen thousand victims with Paris. Curiously, Parmain seems completely saved, no case being announced nor any notable increase in the burials being recorded.

In 1831, the studies for the construction of a shoed connection of Paris at the Belgian border are launched. One consequently sees regularly Engineer S along Oise then, in 1842, of the Ouvrier S to come to pose stakes. At the time of the meeting of the Municipal council of May 20th 1843, the creation of a Crossing level with the bottom of the anxious street Guichard and the mayor, Mr Dambry, request which the platform is lowered in the ground, but without success. The direction of the Compagnie of the railroads of North baptize the new station “Isle-Adam”; it is only in 1877 that the name of Parmain is added to him. The name is however added on the railway indicators… only after the Second world war.

June 14th 1846, the inhabitants of Parmain see passing at any speed in the very new station the first Train to inaugural vapor of the Paris line - Lille. This one indeed then passes by the Vallée of Montmorency then the valley of Oise by making an important turning towards the west before the construction of the more direct line Paris - Creil by Chantilly in 1859. June 20th, the new line is opened to the travellers, five daily trains serve the station from Paris and only four in opposite direction. The way lasts an hour fifteen then and the ticket of 3rd class costs two francs and seventy-five centimes. The price is slightly weaker than that of the former way in Diligence, and the run time divided by three, but the comfort of 3rd class is Spartan: being deprived of panes, the travellers undergo the cold and smoke. The year of the inauguration, Valmondois and Champagne-on-Oise do not have stops yet. The boatmen of Oise however regard the Railroad as a unfair competition: February 26th 1848, some of them helped of revolutionary from Paris sabotage the ways between Auvers and Persan and destroy installations of indication and Télégraphe. The station is then burnt like others of the line. Following this sabotage, circulations are done on single track: February 27th, the convoy coming from Pontoise enters in collision with a train in direction of north, making a death and forty wounded close to Butry. The line of Railroad contributes largely to the development, in particular real, of the commune. In the Years 1880, reverberators with Gaz light the streets of the commune for the first time; in 1881, the creation project of a school of girls is launched by the municipality.

January 29th 1896, the mayor signs, with the authorization of the prefect, the act of acquisition of the beautiful property built by Mrs Ducamp in 1828, and belonging then to Mr Dordron: the town hall is then transferred there. In 1899, the installation of a telegraphic and telephone office is envisaged by the Municipal council, which worries again about the situation posed by the presence of the Crossing level in the center even of the agglomeration: the traffic in continuous increase indeed poses increasing problems In 1900, in order to accompany the constant growth by the traffic, two wings are added to the central house of the station. In February 1935, the death of the tree of freedom is announced with the municipality; it decides to replace it by a lime, of which there does not remain any trace. February 28th 1937, decision is taken to create new a Cimetière, located at the locality “Gammertin wood”. In 1977, the demolition of the building of the station is decided then implemented in 1982; in 1983, the new built station of wood pointing out the close forest is brought into service.

changes of denomination of the 19th century

In 1793, the commune is called the Account with an aim of erasing any toponymic trace of feudality and aristocratic presence. According to same logic, in 1801, Jouy-the-Count becomes Jouy-the-People . The commune takes again its name of old mode under the Restauration.

The old hamlet of Parmain having thanks to the Railroad supplanted in demographic and economic terms the historical center of the commune, located at Jouy-the-Count, of the voices asking for the change of denomination of the commune are made hear. January 1st 1885, a hundred and eleven inhabitants of Parmain sign a petition which claims the transformation of the hamlet into commune. The mayor makes known of it to the Municipal council on April 8th. Indeed, in 1893, Jouy counts three hundred twenty-six inhabitants, whereas Parmain adds up six hundred and sixty two of them, that is to say more of the double. A popular consultation is launched on the administrative future of the commune; Jouy puts forward its seniority while Parmain proposes the establishment of the new town hall on its territory and especially the presence of the station. The result of the referendum east is without call: Parmain carries it by two hundred forty-four voices while Jouy adds up only hundred thirty-nine.
Thus the common one changes denomination by decree, signed hand of the president Sadi Carnot, and published with the Official journal on January 5th 1893, passing from Jouy-the-Count with Parmain. However, the territorial unit is not done therefore in the population, each one continuing to live either Parmain, or Jouy-the-Count. This last name is currently used to indicate the northern part of the commune.

The old parish church is always found there (classified historic building). Until the end of the 19th century, Parmain does not have any religious building. A Chapelle is finally built in 1889 by the Gaillard abbot, in the center of the commune, not far from the station. Become too exiguous because of important demographic trends, it is integrated as a Sacristie into a new building, blessed by Monseigneur fox, bishop of Versailles on September 7th 1958.

the defense of the passage of Oise

The city undergoes destruction at the time of the Franco-German Guerre of 1870. The defense of the passage of Oise is a tragic episode of the history of the commune. After the destruction of the bridges, a pharmacist of Parmain, Emile Capron, brings together two hundred badly armed men who force the Prussians to cross Oise on a bridge of boats on the level of Mours and not, as they wished it, on the level of Parmain, thus delaying their progression in the area. In reprisals: 1500 with: 2000 Prussian soldiers set fire to most of the city. Forty years later, the memory of the event was always commemorated by a procession. An obelisk in the cemetery of Jouy-the-Count, always visible, pays homage to dead of 1870.

a history related to the river

The only remaining stone bridge, of the 15th century, is with Isle-Adam. The bridges were kept until the end of the 19th century by Masters of bridge, who were transmitted the function of wire father. They directed the brotherhood of the companions of the arch charged to ensure the towing of the Péniche S. a way of Halage skirted the banks of Oise, it was empierré in 1848.

The military Engineering French had to destroy the old bridges connecting Parmain with Isle-Adam in 1870. Modern constructions replaced them, which also had to be destroyed in 1914 then in 1940. The First World War takes soixante-treize inhabitants in Parmain and Jouy-the-Count.

June 10th, 1940, the Germans are in Parmain, follows from there a short battle which makes six civilian victims. The 13, the troops Frenchwoman fold up, and give up the commune with the occupant. July 4th 1944, the Bombardement S of about fifty allied planes aim Jouy-the-Count and Parmain.

Demography, population and housing

demographic Table of the 20th century

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Demographic trends By 1793 with 2005, the population of Parmain increased by 834%. Broadly increasing, the demographic progression of the commune since 1793 is however not linear. Indeed, one frequently notes falls of population between two dates of census, sometimes over several consecutive periods (between 1891 and 1901 and 1911 and 1926). Thus, it was necessary more than 110 years so that double the population of the commune between 1793 and 1906. A first demographic boom is observable between 1901 and 1911, the Belle time benefitting particularly the commune, before the population does not stagnate more or less until after Second world war.

Although that does not appear clearly in the figures resulting from the censuses, the impact of the establishment, in 1846, of the railway line known as of North on the evolution of the population of Parmain is included/understood in the light of a comparison with the common neighbors. Whereas the vexinoises communes served by the line, namely Parmain, Valmondois, Auvers-sur-Oise and Champagne-on-Oise, see their population increasing by 50% between 1851 and 1911, those which remained about it with the variation like Hérouville, Ronquerolles, Arronville and Frouville lose during the same time 37% of their population. The railroad thus allowed the commune and its neighbors of the valley of Oise to appear today among the most populated Val-d'Oise in the regional natural park of French Vexin. From the census of 1946, the population of the city does not know any more a fall and the Baby-boom then the easy Rurbanisation allows a demographic explosion of the communal population which increases of more than 267% between 1946 and 2005 (whereas it had increased only by 154% between 1793 and 1946). A deceleration is nevertheless observable since the beginning of the Années 1990.

Annual inquiry of census of INSEE of 2005

This investigation makes state in the commune of Parmain of a population of: 5413 inhabitants (density of 588,36 inhabitants to the km ²), is an increase of 2,8% compared to 1999. 67,3% of the inhabitants lived already the commune 5 years before, and 93,9% the area Île-de-France. 55,2% 15 years and more the commune were married in 2005, the others widowed or widowed, unmarried (33,2%) or being divorced. Housing

In 2005,92,4% of the residences were main homes (against 88% in 1999), including 91,2% of the houses. These last had in 2005 on average 5,1 parts. In 1999,27,5% of the residences were former to 1949 and only 5,8% of the residences of the commune were built since 1990, sign of a restricted new habitat.

The inhabitants owners of their housing represented in 1999 78,9% of the population. Only 4,6% of Parminois were tenants of residences HLM, (average secondary road 25.3%).

Parmain is subjected to the legislative obligation of construction of 20% of social housing under the terms of the law n°2000-1208 of December 13rd, 2000 relating to solidarity and the renewal urban.

Level of studies in 1999

In 1999,25,1% of the population (against 19,2% at the departmental level) had continued at least two years of studies after the baccalaureat. On the other hand, 10,3% were not titular of any diploma (18.5% at the departmental level). These figures testify to a level of education higher than the average secondary roads and main roads.

Population pyramid in 1999

The population of the commune is young, 43,5% of the men having between 0 and 29 years (against 39,08% at the national level) and 38,3% of the women (against 36.3% at the national level). Contrary, 12,5% of the men were old of more than 60 years (against 18,6% at the national level) and 14.3% of the women (against 23.9% at the national level).

Nationalities

The commune counted in 1999 4,7% from abroad, against an average of 10,8% in the department.

Administration and policy

The common one belongs to the jurisdiction of authority, of great authority as well as trade of Pontoise.

Parmain is a commune of the Canton of Isle-Adam, Arrondissement of Pontoise and member of the Communauté of communes of the Valley of Oise and the Three Forests.

The municipal team counts twenty city council men, the mayor and her eight assistant. The current mayor of Parmain, Roland Guichard , UMP, head of undertaking, is also General adviser, elected canton of Isle-Adam. He is second vice-president of the commission finances - general administration - economic development - employment and member of the commission environment . Its mandate began on March 28th, 2001 and will end on March 31st, 2008. Roland Guichard, as an general adviser, is also member, inter alia, of the board of directors of the company of local mixed economy of the castle of Auvers-sur-Oise, member of the departmental committee of tourism and leisures (C.D.T.L.), the departmental commission of the social security, the board of directors of the port authority of Paris or of the board of directors of the economic committee of expansion of the Valley of Oise (C.E.E.V.O.).

Parmain belongs to the Second district of the Val-d'Oise, the most populated France, whose deputy is, since 2002, Axel Poniatowski, mayor of Isle-Adam and chair commission of the foreign affairs of the National Assembly in 2007.

Political tendencies

a Net anchoring on the right

The voters of Parmain tend, according to the electoral results, to vote clearly on the right. To the legislative elections of 2002 and 2007, they carried the mayor UMP of Isle-Adam to the National Assembly with a strong majority, appreciably higher than in the remainder of the electoral constituency (64,01% and 64,70% in 2002 and 2007 compared with 53,08% on these dates on the level of the district).
In the same way at the time of the presidential elections, Parminois confirm their vote of right-hand side. In 2007 Parminois preferred Nicolas Sarkozy with Ségolène Royal with the second turn to 59,35% (against 53,06% at the national level). With the first turn of the presidential election of 2002, Jacques Chirac (18,51%) and Jean-Marie Le Pen (17,39%) both more voices obtain than Lionel Jospin (14,01%) in the commune. With the second round, Jacques Chirac carries it in the commune with 83,87% of the voices (against 82,21% at the national level). The regional elections of 2004 also saw the victory of the right-hand side in the commune, the UMP list arrived at the head to the second turn (triangular) with 44,37% of the votes whereas it arrived second at the regional level with 40.72%.

polls relating to Europe

The tendency to the preserving vote with Parmain does not find in a way so marked at the time of the European elections. The lists of the socialist party indeed arrived at the head in the commune in 1999 (19,73%) and 2004 (23,88%), even if the support of Parminois to the left were less marked than at the national level in 1999 (21,95% with the PS) and regional in 2004 (25,03% with the PS). The Referendum S relating to the European treaties also collected in Parmain more favorable opinions than at the national level (54,4% of yes with the Traité of Maastricht in 1992, against 51,04% at the national level, and 54,79% of yes with the Traité establishing a constitution for Europe in 2005, against 45,33% at the national level).

Budget and taxation

Budget 2007

The budget voted for the commune into 2007 distributed between: 4762498 Euro S in section of operation and: 2142610 in section of investment. The principal expenditure of operation is the personnel costs (50%) and loads in general matter (31%) and those of investment are the installations of roadway system (38%), the other public buildings (17%) and the other fixed assets (17%). Being the receipts of operation, they come to 63% from the taxes and taxes and 28% from the equipments and participations. The receipts of investment result as for them for 55% from the product of the transfers of fixed assets, the loan with 21% and the equipments at 14%. The weight of the debt per capita was of 360 € in 2006.

Taxation

The rate of the Taxe of dwelling in 2006 was of 14,78%, that of the real estate tax (built) of 17,85% (not-frame 54,63%) and of the professional tax of 16,32%.

Safety

The safety in the commune is ensured by a municipal police and a brigade of gendarmerie, is installed in the city even since 2005, and either with Isle-Adam. The gendarmes of Parmain intervene on six other neighbouring communes: Champagne-on-Oise, Ronquerolles, Nesles-the-Valley, Hédouville, Labbeville and Frouville.

Parmain within the Regional natural park of French Vexin

Parmain constitutes one of the communes constitutive of the Eastern limit of the Regional natural park of French Vexin. With Champagne-on-Oise, it constitutes one of the two vexinoises communes of the Communauté of communes of the Valley of Oise and the Three Forests, with the difference which the territory of Parmain is entirely included in the perimeter of the Park, contrary with that of Champagne-on-Oise of which a small portion of the territory in is excluded. Parmain is also the only commune of the Canton of Isle-Adam to belong to the park.

His situation along the valley of Oise, his service road by a railway line since the medium of the 19th century and his proximity with the chief town of Isle-Adam ensured to him a population growth higher than that of the great majority of the communes of Vexin. While at the same time it is well far from appearing among the most populated communes Valley of Oise, Parmain is however one of the most populated communes of the park. This statute of relatively populated commune legally obliges it to respect obligations relating to the number of social housing present in the commune. This legislative constraint authorizes the city thus not to respect the provisions of the charter of the Park relating to the control of the population growth of common the members.

Twinning

The municipality did not sign any agreement of Jumelage in 2007.

Economy

Activities

The Agriculture, although the commune has surface cultivateds, wood and 74% of its rural territory, is not an economic activity of its inhabitants. In 1999, no Parminois worked in this sector, the commune having lost its last local farmers between 1990 and 1999. It is the Tertiary sector which occupied 82,9% of the inhabitants of the commune in 1999.

The commune does not have zones of activities on its territory nor of retail parks of scale, only some trade of proximity, in particular with the Arcades in the south of the commune and in the district of the station. The closest large surfaces are located at Isle-Adam, with Chambly, in the Oise, and the agglomeration of Cergy-Pontoise.

The tourist activity, because of membership of the commune to the Regional natural park of French Vexin and to the proximity of important tourist sites at the departmental or regional level allows a modest development of the capacities of lodging (room of host, hotel).

Quality of life with Parmain and in the neighbouring communes and the proximity of the agglomeration of Cergy-Pontoise and Paris benefit the market from the real estate, explaining the development of the residential activity.

Employment, mobility, returned

The activity ratio (within the meaning of the census) in the commune is of 72,7% in 2005. 26% of the inhabitants are pensioners in 1999. The commune is classified in the basin of use of Pontoise.

In 2005, unemployment rate (within the meaning of the census) among the active active population of the commune was of 8,3%, stable compared to 1999 (8,2%). The national rate in 2005 was of 9,8%.

The common one counts in 1999 42,6% of workmen and employees for 51% of intermediate occupations and frameworks and higher intellectual professions. 6,4% are craftsmen, tradesmen and heads of undertaking and there is no farmer.

In 1999, only 9,7% of the occupied credits work and live in Parmain, the remainder moving out of the commune to work. 68% use the car and 15% public transport.

The average revenue by household in the commune in 2004 was of: 26452 € per annum (national average: 15027 €; average Val-d'Oise: 22236 €; Paris average: 25948 €).

Inheritances and places of visit

Parmain has two historic buildings classified and a registered voter; the totality of the territory of the commune constitutes a registered site.

Built inheritance

Historic buildings

A Colombier of two thousand three hundred cells of the 18th century is located in the old hamlet of Boulonville, currently street of the Marshal-Joffre, on a private ground. This type of construction is characteristic of the rural inheritance of the French Vexin. Registered with the historic buildings since 1965, the property of the dovecote was the residence of the intendant of the field under the old mode. This rural field had the aspect characteristic of the large farms of Île-de-France. The farm belonging to the field of Conti, it is sold like national Bien and finally demolished in 1830. In 1932, the actor of Cinéma André Luguet repurchases what remains of the field and load its architect to transform it into country house, which saves the dovecote, registered voter with the additional inventory of the historic buildings in 1965.

The church Saint Denis of Jouy-the-Count is a composite building what explains its irregular character. The Romance chorus goes back to the 12th century, the Abside arched takes the shape of a bored hemicycle of four windows in semicircular arch. The stained glasses, works of Maurice Rock, go back to 1958. The Clocher of the 13th century is capped as a bâtière probably at the 14th century; it high on the crossing of the Transept. The collateral right and the gate side are gone back to 1550 and allotted to the architect pontoisien Nicolas the Draper. The Nef was rebuilt and covered with a cradle of wood at the 17th century. The niece of the Cardinal Mazarin, Anne Marie Martinozzi, princess of Conti, made there carry out work in second half of the 17th century; the church is then restored and the built presbytery. Jeanne d' Arc would have left two small crosses there on a flagstone of the chorus in 1429 or 1430. The building is classified historic building since 1912.

The hypogean with Neolithic hall known as the Hole with dead located on a ground deprived at the place says Val of Nesles is classified since 1974. This ossuary arranged in an artificial excavation testifies to an old occupation of the area. The various successive burials were separated by spreadings from Chaux and stones. Such monuments rather often find on the territory of the French Vexin. To note that this vestige is single in Île-de-France in what it shelters a sepulchral room of oval form.

Other elements of inheritance built The town hall , of Style Louis XV, built in 1828, is the old residence of widowed Madam Ducamp, it shelters the town hall since 1896. It is located on the site of the old small castle built by the Conti and demolished under the First Empire.

The building of the Post office , being next to the town hall, is built in 1932 with concrete framework and brick facings. It occupies the site of the small castle whose cellars always exist.

the church of the Sacred Heart is built in 1889 to face the increase in the number of parishioners. A separate bell-tower of the body of the building is to him assistant in 1960.

The commune comprises a relatively recent laundrette (19th and S), component of the rural village inheritance of the French Vexin.

On a purely anecdotic basis, the common one sheltered in the villa known as of the Beautiful-Air a national old people's home of the hairdressers founded into 1927 who was also used as museum of the hairstyle. Today residence for elderly, one can always see in his park a bust with the honor of the inventor of curling tongs which bear its name, Marcel Grateau.

One finds finally on the territory of the commune of the elegant residences in Meulière. The calcareous white stone of Vexin is also employed in many apartment buildings (old farms, old or contemporary houses of all sizes).

Movable inheritance

Two tables of the 19th century, a setting with the tomb of Yan Dargent (1824 - 1899) and a representation of the Christ and the adulteress of Theodore Chassériau are classified and are with the Saint-Denis church of Jouy-the-Count. A classified table of the end of the 16th century, Christ meeting the holy women , was with the church of the Sacred Heart before being stolen in 1955. The church of Jouy-the-Count also includes/understands Baptismal font 13th century out of stone cut and carved of a plank of foliage classified in 1911.

The town hall shelters a municipal collection of archeology presenting a whole of objects and Gallo-Roman sculptures found in the area of Parmain (free access at the opening hours of the town hall). To note the chest known as of Hercules discovered in 1968 with Mours (Canton of Beaumont-on-Oise), in the career of Maffa, with the locality Miltrade. It could represent Silène.

A Cloche of bronze of 1668 is also preserved at the town hall. It was suspended in a pinnacle now destroyed located at 11, rue Guichard. The bell carries in inscription: “Plate deo honnor and gloria” (Honor and glory with single God).

Natural heritage

Parmain includes/understands on its territory part of the Bois of the Tower of Lay, departmental forest (managed by the National office of the forests) classified like natural Zone of ecological, faunistic and floristic interest (ZNIEFF) of type II (great rich natural unit and little modified, offering important biological potentialities). One finds there also part of the ZNIEFF of the type I divided with Champagne-on-Oise, namely the Catillon Mount and the dimension of Champagne.

Personalities related to the commune

  • the princess of Conti, niece of Mazarin, Anne Marie Martinozzi (1637-1672), cabin with Jouy-the-Count after the fire of the castle of Isle-Adam in 1669. It finances there work of restoration of the church Denis saint.
  • the French engineer Georges Leclanché (1839-1882), inventor of the electric dry cell which bears its name, was born in Parmain.
  • the geographer and geopolitician Jacques Ancel (1882-1943) was born in Parmain.
  • the actor of Cinéma André Luguet (1892-1979) lived the property of the dovecote of Boulonville.
  • the dramatic author Jean Sarment (1897-1976) lived in Parmain of 1940 with 1976. A meeting and concert hall bears its name in the commune.
  • the writer Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) lived in Parmain of 1941 to 1944 pennies a false identity to flee persecutions anti-semites.

The valley of Oise attracted the painters at the 19th century much. Some specifically stopped in Parmain to work there or live there. One can quote:

  • Louis-Marie Lemaire (1824-1910), post-impressionist, who lived in a villa with Parmain. A communal room of exposure arranged in old stables bears its name.
  • Pierre Isidore Office (1827-1876), Master of the night effects, who also lived in Parmain.
  • Victor Vignon (1847-1909), raises Corot and friend of Cézanne and Pissarro which painted and lived in the commune

Equipment

Teaching

The commune includes/understands three nursery schools, including two named in the honor of Maurice Genevoix, three elementary schools and a college, called the Seams, name of the locality in the south of the city.

The common changing of the academy of Versailles. The schools are managed by the general inspection of the departmental inspection of the State education of High-Valley-in-the Oise located at Beaumont-on-Oise.

Sports, culture and worships

The sporting infrastructures of the commune allow the practice of many sports and activities. One indeed finds in Parmain a dojo, a sauna, a gymnasium and a room of dance. The room Jean Sarment accommodates various expressed cultural. The proximity of the Oise also allows the practice of water sports. An inter-commune swimming pool, with Isle-Adam, is used by the two cities.

There exists in Parmain an association of hunters and a music school. One can also practice in the commune the Théâtre and the Chant. A municipal Bibliothèque opened its doors in 1995 near the town hall. The town hall shelters an archaeological collection (of the Préhistoire to the time mérovingienne) which gathers some of the discoveries made in the neighbouring communes.

Vis-a-vis the station, the tourist office of Right Bank of Oise and valley of the Sausseron accommodate the visitors in the area, it is common to the towns of Parmain, Champagne-on-Oise, Valmondois and Butry-on-Oise.

Parmain accommodates each year in the concerts within the framework of the festival Jazz with the wire of Oise . The annual festivities of Parmain are, in June, the Classic Parmain , gathering of old cars, in May the festival of Parmain , in March the Carnaval and in December the gone of Christmas .

Being the Catholic worship , Parmain belongs to the Paroisse known as three bell-towers , mixed parochial grouping with Isle-Adam who serves in the commune the church of Parmain and that of Jouy-the-Count. The parish belongs to the Doyenné of Beaumont and the Diocèse of Pontoise.

Health

The commune is well provided as doctors, dentists, male nurses, kinesitherapists and specialists (ophthalmologist, speech therapists, podologist, dental prothesist). One finds there two pharmacies and a medical analysis laboratory. A private clinic is located with Isle-Adam, as well as the foundation Chantepie Mancier, hospital specialized in the Gériatrie and managed by the two communes. The closest hospitals are with Pontoise and Beaumont-on-Oise.

Others

The commune includes/understands a post office and trade of proximity (bakeries, small supermarket, some restaurants, houses of the press, hairdressers, tobaccos), the majority of them being located with Isle-Adam.

Parmain has a flower with the Concours of the cities and flowered villages, rewarding the efforts for fleurissement for the commune.

The commune includes/understands two cemeteries, located on the slopes of the city and offering partial panoramas on the valley, whose old Cimetière of Jouy-the-Count where are buried former mayors of the commune and where is the monument commemorating deaths of 1870.

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