Saint-Cyr-l'École () is a

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in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. It used to host the training school for officers of the French army, the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM), which was relocated to

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in 1945. The old buildings of the ESM are now used by the

lycée militaire de Saint-Cyr The lycée militaire de Saint-Cyr (or Coldo) is one of six (formerly 'lycées militaires') of the French Ministry of Defence. Situated at Saint-Cyr-l'École (Yvelines), it occupies a particularly historic building - it succeeds the Maison royale ...

(military high school of Saint-Cyr). Inhabitants are called ''Saint-Cyriens'' (uppercase, with students or graduates from the school called ''saint-cyriens'' with lowercase).

Geography

Saint-Cyr lies in the ''

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'' of

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, west of the Park of Versailles. It is named after St. Cyricus. Saint-Cyr-l'École is served by Saint-Cyr station, which is an interchange station on Paris

RER line C RER C is one of the five lines in the Réseau Express Régional (English: Regional Express Network), a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Paris, France and its suburbs. The line crosses the region from north to south. The li ...

, on the

Transilien Line U Transilien Line U, also known as "La Défense - La Verrière" or more often simply "ligne U", is a tangential commuter train link, which serves the western Paris region from La Défense. It links the Paris's business district of La Défense to ...

suburban rail line, and on the

Transilien Line N Transilien Line N is a railway line of the Paris Transilien suburban rail network operated by the SNCF. The trains on this line travel between Gare Montparnasse in Paris and the west of Île-de-France region, with termini in Rambouillet, Dreux ...

suburban rail line. Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole airfield is long established and lies on the edge of the commune. It is used by light aircraft flown by private pilot owners and by members of aero clubs. It is operated for public use by Aéroports de Paris.

History

King

Louis XIV of France , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of ...

, at the request of

Madame de Maintenon Madame may refer to: * Madam, civility title or form of address for women, derived from the French * Madam (prostitution), a term for a woman who is engaged in the business of procuring prostitutes, usually the manager of a brothel * ''Madame'' ( ...

, founded Maison royale de Saint-Louis, an institute for poor young ladies. It later became a military hospital.

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

founded the military academy for infantry and cavalry officers in 1808. The tomb of Madame de Maintenon lies in the Chapel.

Population

Education

Schools in the city include: Preschools: * Robert Desnos *

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

* Léon Jouannet *

Paul Langevin Paul Langevin (; ; 23 January 1872 – 19 December 1946) was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the ''Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes'', an an ...

* Jean Macé * Henri Wallon Elementary schools: * Ernest Bizet *

Jean Jaurès Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès (3 September 185931 July 1914), commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès (; oc, Joan Jaurés ), was a French Socialist leader. Initially a Moderate Republican, he later became one of the first social dem ...

* Irène Joliot-Curie *

Romain Rolland Romain Rolland (; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production a ...

There is one junior high school, Collège Jean Racine. Senior high schools/sixth form colleges: * Lycée Mansart *

Lycée professionnel Jean Perrin 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 ...

Lycée militaire de Saint-Cyr The lycée militaire de Saint-Cyr (or Coldo) is one of six (formerly 'lycées militaires') of the French Ministry of Defence. Situated at Saint-Cyr-l'École (Yvelines), it occupies a particularly historic building - it succeeds the Maison royale ...

Bibliothèque

Albert Camus Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His work ...

, which opened on 14 November 2013, is the community library.

Parks and recreation

The Centre aquatique de St-Cyr has the swimming facilities in the town.Centre aquatique de St-Cyr
" Saint-Cyr-l'École. Retrieved on September 2, 2016.

Twin towns — sister cities

Butzbach Butzbach () is a town in the Wetteraukreis district in Hessen, Germany. It is located approximately 16 km south of Gießen and 35 km north of Frankfurt am Main. In 2007, the town hosted the 47th Hessentag state festival from 1 to 10 June ...

, Germany – since 2008 * Bonnyrigg & Lasswade, Midlothian, Scotland

Personalities

* Armand Laroche, painter

References

External links

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