Poissy

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.

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

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

Economy

Main companies

• 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

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

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.

Culture

Museums

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

Cultural facilities

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

International relations

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Twin towns — Sister cities

Poissy is twinned with:

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

Movies

• 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

• 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

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

• AS Poissy

See also

• Communes of the Yvelines department

References

• INSEE

External links

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