Tremblay-on-Mauldre

See also: Tremblay

Tremblay-on-Mauldre is to It a common department of the Yvelines, in the area Île-de-France, in France, located at approximately 18 km to the north of Rambouillet.

Its inhabitants is called the Tremblaysiens . __TOC

Geography

The territory of the commune of Tremblay-on-Mauldre, inclined towards the North-East, extends on the western slope from the valley from the Mauldre in north from the main forest from Rambouillet, the river forming the limit is commune.

This territory is mainly rural, to 80%, with wooded parts towards the south. It includes in its northern part part of the park of the castle of Pontchartrain. The habitat is grouped in the borough which is next to the castle of Tremblay. The communes bordering are Jouars-Pontchartrain in the east, Saint-Rémy-the Honore in the south, Bazoches-on-Guyonne in the west and Neauphle-the-Old man in the North-East.

The communications are ensured by the departmental roadway system, in particular the secondary road 34 of North-South orientation and the secondary road 13 of East-West orientation. The commune is crossed in its northern part by the Trunk road 12, expressway with 2x2 ways, without local exchanger as by the secondary road 23 known as road of Bazoches with Montfort.

In the railway plan, the commune is at equivalent distances from the stations the SNCF of Montfort-l' Amaury - Mother and Villiers - Neauphle - Pontchartrain where passes the line of the Transilien Paris-Montparnasse and of the Canopy on the line of the Transilien Paris Saint-Lazare.

History

Culture

Inheritance

  • the Saint-Leu-and-Saint-Gilles church, dating from XIIIe century, rebuilt at the XIXe century.
  • the castle of Tremblay, private property, become center of seminars, hotel and club of golf was classified historic building in 1979.

Personalities

  • Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer, had a residence, its “small house of the fields”, in Tremblay as from 1918. The municipality made transfer its ashes to the cemetery from Tremblay on May 14th, 1994. It gave its name to a versatile room inaugurated in 2005, “space Blaise Cendrars”.

  • Francis Picabia, Painter and French writer, born in Paris on January 22nd, 1879, deceased in Paris on November 30th, 1953, lived in Tremblay of 1922 to 1924.

Economy

  • Common residential.
  • Agriculture
  • Tourism (golf)

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