"the Vequecin country
has flesh and fish, ground and water, wood and vines,
wood and meadows, estangs and rivers, small mountains
and doulces valleys, chaulx and plastre, stones and bricks,
cities and chasteaux, noble and pasans, men in great number
and several species of animals; in short there is not
a country in the more convenient world with entretenement
of the human life, as well for the serenity of the air
as for the abundance of the food which are there when
it runs good time." Thus Noël Taillepied describes
it, in 1587, Vexin - of Véliocasse, name of the
Gallic people which occupied the country until Rouen -
in the book called “Antiquitez and Singularitez
of the town of Pontoise”
Located at the North-West of l'Île-de--France, French
Vexin ensures the transition with Normandy. It is clearly
delimited by the rivers which surround it: Oise in the
east, Seine in the south and Epte in the west, separating
French Vexin from Norman Vexin. Treated on a hierarchical
basis in three levels, the plate, the wooded hillocks
and the valleys, the landscapes are articulated, from
west to east, around geographical entities. By an altitude
from 100 to 140 m, the covered calcareous plate of silts,
with released spaces, is surmounted by a double alignment
of timbered hillocks, those of Rosnes and those of Arthies.
This extent, whose heart is dedicated to agriculture,
is bound by a multitude of rivers: valleys of Sausseron,
Viosne, Aubettes de Meulan and Magny, Montcient.
Card of identity
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| Created in 1995
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on the departments of Val-d'Oise
et des Yvelines (Île-de-France). |
| Nbr of townships
: 94 |
| Surface : 65
670 ha |
| Nbr of inhabitants
: 78 943 |
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Vexin français
Maison du Parc - 95450 Théméricourt
Tél. 01 34 66 15 10 - Fax. 01 34 66 15 11
Informations touristiques : 01 34 48 65 00
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