Orgeval (Yvelines)
Orgeval a municipality with 5919 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the Ile- de -France region, is located about 31 km from Paris. Administratively Orgeval part of the Arrondissement of Saint- Germain -en- Laye, in the département of Yvelines. Yannick Tasset is since March 2001 Mayor of Orgeval.
The name of the community, " Orgeval " comes from the Celtic origin " Orc ", which means " edge of the valley " and from the word " Val " from the Latin word " Vallis " for " the valley ".
Demographics
Attractions
- Parish Church of Saint -Pierre -Saint -Paul
- Château de La Brunetière
- Château de Feugères
- Château du Haut- Orgeval
Famous people
- Didier Gustin ( b. 1956 as Camille Didier Gueudisquin ), French actor and parodist
- Alain Gillot - Pétré (1950-1999), a French journalist, writer and literary critic
- Pierre Messmer (1916-2007), French politician
- Catherine Rich ( b. 1932 as Catherine Henriette Marie Simone Renaudin ), French actress
- Claude Rich ( born 1929 ), French actor
- Paul beach (* 1890, † 1976), American photographer