Le Plessis-Bouchard

Le Plessis- Bouchard is a commune with 7763 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Val- d'Oise of the Ile- de -France region. It belongs to Arrondissement Pontoise and Canton Beauchamp.

Geography

Le Plessis- Bouchard located 20 kilometers northwest of Paris city center.

Economy and infrastructure

Le Plessis- Bouchard is primarily residential city. Most residents work in Paris or in the agglomeration zone Cergy -Pontoise.

Le Plessis- Bouchard is the bordering Franco Ville are connected via the station Franco Ville / Le Plessis- Bouchard with the Réseau Express Régional ( RER C ) directly to the Paris public transport network.

About the motorways A115 and then A15 Paris can be reached directly.

Personalities

• Richard Pottier (born Ernst German, 1906-1994 ), French film director and screenwriter, has died in Le Plessis- Bouchard.

• Stéphane Guillaume ( born 1974 ), jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist
• Romain Mesnil ( b. 1977 ), Athlete
• Lorie (* 1982 ), a well-known, especially in the French-speaking singer and actress

Twinning

Le Plessis- Bouchard has officially since 1996 twin city relationships with the city Niederstetten in Baden-Württemberg. The first connections were created by economic relations between two companies.

Every year there are at least three exchanges between Niederstetten and Le Plessis- Bouchard instead ( in May / June alternately in France and Germany, in September and in December ). Traditionally organize residents from Le Plessis- Bouchard called the wine village during the low Stettener Autumn Festival, offered in which French products. Lower Stettener participate every year with a booth at the Christmas market in Le Plessis- Bouchard.

Responsible for the care of twinning relations on the French side, the Comité de twinning ( twinning committee ) eV on the German side of the club for twinning.