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
Arrondissement of Saint-Germain-en-Laye Cantons of France Postal codes in France Paul Strand
623439
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