commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the southern suburbs of
Paris
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France
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Essonne
Essonne () is a department of France in the southern Île-de-France region. It is named after the river Essonne. In 2019, it had a population of 1,301,659 across 194 communes.department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
and the seat of the
Arrondissement of Palaiseau
The arrondissement of Palaiseau is an Arrondissements of France, arrondissement of France in the Essonne Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region. It has 68 Communes of France, communes. Its population is 63 ...
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Inhabitants of Palaiseau are known as ''Palaisiens''.
Population
Education
, the primary schools in Palaiseau have 2,770 students. There are 12 public preschools (''maternelles'') and 10 public elementary schools.Les établissements scolaires maternels et élémentaires " Palaiseau. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.
Public secondary schools: " Palaiseau. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.
* Junior high schools: Collège César-Franck, Collège Charles-Péguy, Collège Joseph-Bara
* Senior high schools:
Lycée professionnel Henri-Poincaré
In France, secondary education is in two stages:
* ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15.
* ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between ...
ParisTech has a strong presence in Palaiseau, with four member institutes: the
École Polytechnique
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées
The ENSTA Paris, officially École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées ( en, Superior National School of Advanced Techniques) is a prestigious French graduate school of engineering ("''école d'ingénieurs''"). Founded in 1741, it is th ...
, and Institut d'optique Graduate School which are now located in Palaiseau, on the
Plateau de Saclay The Plateau de Saclay, also called Silicon Valley Européenne (in English, European Silicon Valley), is located north of Essonne and south-east of Yvelines, 20 km south of Paris. It is bounded by the valley of the Yvette ('' Vallée de Chevreu ...
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Transport
Palaiseau is served by 3 stations on Paris RER line B:
Palaiseau
Palaiseau () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Palaiseau is a sub-prefecture of the Essonne department and the seat of the Arrondissement of Palaiseau.
Inhabitants of Palaiseau ar ...
Lozère
Lozère (; oc, Losera ) is a landlocked department in the region of Occitanie in Southern France, located near the Massif Central, bounded to the northeast by Haute-Loire, to the east by Ardèche, to the south by Gard, to the west by Aveyron, ...
(this last station is the closest to ''
École Polytechnique
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
''). The station Massy-Palaiseau (RER B, RER C and also TGV, the French high-speed rail) is located in the nearby town of Massy.
Unna
Unna is a city of around 59,000 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the seat of the Unna district.
The newly refurbished Unna station has trains to all major cities in North Rhine Westphalia including Dortmund, Cologne, Münster, Hamm, D ...
,
Germany
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