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26-636: It is named after the river Oise , a major tributary of the Seine , which crosses the region after having started in Belgium and flowed through Northeastern France. Val-d'Oise is Île-de-France's northernmost department. Charles de Gaulle Airport , France's main international airport, is partially located in Roissy-en-France , a commune of Val-d'Oise. Its INSEE and postcode number is 95. The original departments of France were established in 1790 when

52-462: A fine château, there is the historic church of Notre-Dame, and the twelfth or thirteenth century Croix de l'Ormeteau-Marie. Royaumont Abbey , founded by St. Louis in the thirteenth century, is another important site. There are two protected nature areas in the department: the Parc naturel régional du Vexin français and the Parc naturel régional Oise-Pays de France . Argenteuil is a sub-prefecture and

78-607: A spa resort with a hot, sulphurous spring, on the site of what was originally Lake Enghien; Écouen with a fine château which houses the Museum of the Renaissance; Cergy-Pontoise, the new administrative capital which has been created out of thirteen communes and has quadrupled in population since the 1960s. There is a branch of the Académie de Versailles in the city which provides tertiary education; Théméricourt , where as well as

104-594: Is a river of Belgium and France , flowing for 341 km (212 mi) from its source in the Belgian province of Hainaut , south of Chimay . It crosses the border with France after about 20 km (12 mi), and flows into the Seine at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine , a north-western suburb of Paris . Its main tributary is the Aisne . It gave its name to the French departments of Oise and Val-d'Oise . In France,

130-420: Is a department in north central France and is part of the region of Île-de-France . To the south of the department lies the department of Hauts-de-Seine , to the southwest lies Yvelines , to the west lies Eure , to the north lies Oise , to the east lies Seine-et-Marne and to the southeast lies Seine-Saint-Denis . The official préfecture (capital) of the department is the commune of Pontoise , situated in

156-572: Is now combining with the neighbouring commune of Cergy to form the new town of Cergy-Pontoise . The Vexin area remains largely rural, and across the whole department, one fifth is covered with trees. The most populous commune is Argenteuil ; the prefecture Pontoise is the sixth-most populous. As of 2019, the 10 most populous communes are: The economy of Val-d'Oise relies on two different themes. The northern, eastern and western parts are fertile areas of agricultural land producing large quantities of corn, sugar beet, and other crops. The urban parts to

182-461: Is progressively diminishing in size as Paris expands. Part of Charles de Gaulle Airport falls in this eastern region, while other parts are in the departments of Seine-et-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis. The southernmost region of the department forms part of the Seine Valley and occupies the whole of the small Vallée de Montmorency . These parts are heavily urbanised, but the ancient Roman road,

208-592: Is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants. The president of the Departmental Council is Marie-Christine Cavecchi, elected in 2017. The department has a rich archaeological and historical heritage, but is not a region visited much by tourists, perhaps being overshadowed by

234-465: Is the second most populous of Paris' suburbs. It is in a scenic location by the River Seine and has been much-painted by Claude Monet , Eugène Delacroix , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Gustave Caillebotte , Alfred Sisley and Georges Braque . It has several historic buildings and a local museum. Oise (river) The Oise ( / w ɑː z / WAHZ ; French: [waz] )

260-486: The Chaussée Jules César , which linked Paris and Rouen , passes through the latter. The central and southwestern parts of the department are also largely urbanised and part of the greater Paris sprawl. The western part of the department forms part of the historic county of Vexin français , a verdant, largely agricultural plateau. Its capital was Pontoise on the eastern extremity of the county. This commune

286-479: The Château de La Roche-Guyon , upon which historically it depended for its existence. The commune's population in 2019 was 479. It is located approximately 58 km from Paris and 9 km from Giverny The present Château de La Roche-Guyon was built in the 12th century, controlling a river crossing of the Seine , itself one of the routes to and from Normandy ; The Abbé Suger described its grim aspect: "At

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312-553: The 19th century by Hippolyte Alexandre and Emile Rousse. In early 1960, French technocrats had the idea for a new administrative capital, to replace Paris as capital with a French " Brasilia " built near La Roche-Guyon and to transform the commune into a "Monaco on the Seine". In early 1960, there was an architectural design competition for the Project, in which the architects Albert Laprade and Jean Brasilier participated. The castle

338-524: The French National Assembly split the country into 83 departments of roughly the same size and population. They were designed as sets of communes, and when better maps became available, certain revisions had to be made. In 1964, it was determined to divide up the departments of Seine and Seine-et-Oise . Val-d'Oise was one of the new departments so formed, and was created entirely from the previous department of Seine-et-Oise. Val-d'Oise

364-551: The French capital. Places of interest include the following sites; La Roche-Guyon with a castle on top of a rocky hill and a twelfth century château; L'Isle-Adam , a historic small town on the bank of the River Oise; Auvers-sur-Oise , which owes its international fame to its landscapes and the impressionist painters such as Charles-François Daubigny , Paul Cézanne , Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot , Camille Pissarro and Vincent van Gogh who immortalised them; Enghien-les-Bains ,

390-511: The Oise flows through the following départements and towns: Over the past few centuries, the Oise has played an important role as an inland shipping waterway connecting the Seine (and thus Paris) with the coastal regions of northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Robert Louis Stevenson described his canoeing trip on the Oise in his first published book, An Inland Voyage . With

416-572: The castle was used as a setting for the medieval segment of the Belgian comic on time travel: Le Piège Diabolique ( The Time Trap ) of the Blake and Mortimer series by Edgar Pierre Jacobs . After 1990, restorations and archaeological surveys undertaken by the Conservatoire régional des Monuments historiques revealed new additions to the documentary history of La Roche-Guyon, undertaken in

442-584: The guest of Louise Elisabeth Nicole de La Rochefoucauld, Duchesse d'Enville. La Roche Guyon was the birthplace of François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1747–1827). In World War II , the château was a headquarters for German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (1891–1944). After D-Day , he defended Normandy against the Allies in World War II from a bunker located here. In 1962,

468-524: The heiress Marie de La Roche; he was a childhood companion of Louis XIII , first gentleman of the Chambre du Roi , and was made a duke in 1643. He and his wife made great changes to the château-bas , opening windows in its structure and laying out the terrace to the east, partly cut into the mountain's steep slope. The domain of La Roche-Guyon came to the La Rochefoucauld family in 1669, with

494-458: The marriage of Jeanne-Charlotte de Plessis-Liancourt with François VII de La Rochefoucauld. The Château retained its medieval aspect of a fortress, with its moat and towers and cramped, dark living apartments. The Château was largely extended in the 18th century. When Turgot , the minister of Louis XVI , failed in his schemes for fundamental reforms in 1776, he retired to the Château briefly, as

520-469: The new Seine-Nord connection is complete, it will allow large vessels to transport goods from the Seine, and thus Paris and its surrounding area, to the ports of Dunkirk , Antwerp and Rotterdam . Part of the overall project consists of upgrading the river Oise itself between Creil and Compiègne, a project called MAGEO ( Mise au gabarit européen de l'Oise ) that was put out to public consultation in 2013. Some bends need to be eased and bridges raised to meet

546-485: The projected construction of the Seine-Nord Europe Canal , a high-capacity water transport system currently in development, the Oise will be linked at Janville , north of Compiègne , with the high-capacity Canal Dunkerque-Escaut , east of Arleux . The Seine-Nord Europe Canal will replace the old Canal de Saint-Quentin and the current Canal du Nord , the capacity of which is far below standard. When

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572-578: The requirements of a class Vb inland waterway . Tributaries include La Roche-Guyon La Roche-Guyon ( French pronunciation: [la ʁɔʃ ɡɥijɔ̃] ) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France . It is located in the Vexin regional nature park  [ fr ] , and is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association. The commune grew around

598-504: The south are dormitory towns, used by people working in the greater metropolitan area of Paris. The presence of Charles de Gaulle Airport and its associated TGV station provides access by rail to all parts of France. The department has nine business zones designated for high-tech industries. Population development since 1876: An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but

624-630: The suburbs of Paris some 28 kilometres (17 mi) northwest of the centre of the city, but the préfecture building and administrative offices are in the neighbouring commune of Cergy . The River Oise is a right tributary of the River Seine , and flows through the province from northeast to southwest. The eastern part of the department is part of the Pays de France , an area of fertile plain traditionally used for agriculture (particularly cereals and sugar beet) based on its fine silty soils. This part

650-430: The summit of a steep promontory, dominating the bank of the great river Seine, rises a frightful castle without title to nobility, called La Roche. Invisible on the surface, it is hollowed out of a high cliff. The able hand of the builder has established in the mountainside, digging into the rock, an ample dwelling provided with a few miserable openings". In the mid-13th century, a fortified manor house (the château-bas )

676-629: Was added below. Guy de La Roche fell at the Battle of Agincourt , and his widow was ousted from the Roche, after six months of siege, in 1419; she preferred to depart rather than accept Henry V of England as her overlord. James V of Scotland and his bride Madeleine of Valois stayed for two nights in March 1537. The Château came to the Liancourt family with the marriage of Roger de Plessis-Liancourt to

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