Orgeval () is a commune in the

Yvelines Yvelines () is a Departments of France, department in the western part of the Île-de-France Regions of France, region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.department in the

Île-de-France The Île-de-France (, ; literally "Isle of France") is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France. Centred on the capital Paris, it is located in the north-central part of the country and often called the ''Région parisienne'' (; en, Pa ...

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in north-central France. It shares its name with the small river that runs through it, a tributary of the

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. Its inhabitants are called the ''Orgevalais''.

Orgeval

Orgeval is served by 3 carriers and 9 lines. The train station of St Quentin en Yvelines is the main station used by RER train lines 1 and 22 to travel to the city of Paris. Bus lines with day and night schedules are Line 20, Line 22, Line 50 terminating at Poissy, and Line 55. The Transdev Ile-de-France LINE 14 is also fully operational since upgrades completed to the Paris metro system.

History

Orgeval's location has been inhabited since the

Prehistory Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The us ...

, where tools made from flint dating from the

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several pa ...

times were found. It is said that a water source was used by the Gallo-Romans for its therapeutic virtues. This source was actually rediscovered in 1708 by the abbey's doctor, but its use was stopped in 1850. Orgeval's first real mention in history came from the building of Abbaye Notre Dame d'Abbecourt in 1180 by Gasce of

Poissy Poissy () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris. Inhabitants are called ''Pisciacais'' in French. Poissy is one ...

, suzerain of Orgeval. This abbey which descended from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chartres was destroyed at the beginning of the 19th Century. Nowadays, Orgeval possesses a church with a

Romanesque architecture Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular arches. There is no consensus for the beginning date of the Romanesque style, with proposals ranging from the 6th to the 11th century, this lat ...

from the 11th century. The church is composed of a

spire A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape. Spires a ...

and an octagonal tower. The church nave dates back to the 16th century.

Population

Notable people linked to the commune

*Georges Docquois (1863–1927) : novelist and poet, died there. * Catherine Rich (1932–2021): actress. *

Claude Rich Claude Rich (8 February 1929 – 20 July 2017) was a French stage and screen actor. He began his career in the theater before his film debut in 1955. Personal life He married actress Catherine Renaudin on 26 June 1959. They had two daughters, ...

(1929–2017): actor. *

Paul Strand Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century ...

(1890–1976) : important American photographer resided here with his third wife Hazel Kingsbury Strand from 1949 until his death in 1976.

References

Communes of Yvelines {{Yvelines-geo-stub

Orgeval

History

Population

Notable people linked to the commune

See also

References