Les Essarts-le-Roi

Les Essarts-le-Roi
Town hall
Coat of arms
Les Essarts-le-Roi
Location within Île-de-France region  Les Essarts-le-Roi
Coordinates: 48°43′03″N 1°53′43″E / 48.7175°N 1.8953°ECoordinates: 48°43′03″N 1°53′43″E / 48.7175°N 1.8953°E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Yvelines
Arrondissement	Rambouillet
Canton	Rambouillet
Intercommunality	Étangs
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Thierry Grosjean
Area^1	19.32 km^2 (7.46 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	6,247
• Density	320/km^2 (840/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	78220 / 78690
Elevation	115–181 m (377–594 ft) (avg. 173 m or 568 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Church of Saint Corneille and Saint Cyprien

Les Essarts-le-Roi is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.

Geography

Les Essarts-le-Roi is bordered by Coignières and Lévis-Saint-Nom to the northeast, Dampierre-en-Yvelines to the east, Senlisse to the southeast, Auffargis to the south, Le Perray-en-Yvelines to the southwest, Les Bréviaires to the west and Saint-Rémy-l'Honoré to the north.

History

An imperial decree in 1814 led to the creation of the commune of Les Essarts-le-Roi by combining the former communes of Essarts and Des Layes.

Demographics

The 2011 census recorded 6,298 people living in the commune.

Since the 1980s, Les Essarts-le-Roi has been home to a large number of Vietnamese, who mostly arrived in France following the Vietnam War. While refugees initially settled in Paris, the suburbanization and growing affluence of the population resulted in many moving to outer communes of the Île-de-France region.^[1]

See also

• Communes of the Yvelines department

References

• INSEE

1. Le nouvel an vietnamien fêté demain L'echo Republicain, 2014