Saulx-les-Chartreux

Saulx-les-Chartreux
The town hall in Saulx-les-Chartreux
Saulx-les-Chartreux
Location within Île-de-France region Saulx-les-Chartreux
Coordinates: 48°41′29″N 2°15′51″E / 48.6914°N 2.2642°E / 48.6914; 2.2642Coordinates: 48°41′29″N 2°15′51″E / 48.6914°N 2.2642°E / 48.6914; 2.2642
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Essonne
Arrondissement	Palaiseau
Canton	Villebon-sur-Yvette
Intercommunality	Europ'Essonne
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean Flegeo
Area¹	7.65 km² (2.95 sq mi)
Population (2006)²	4,957
• Density	650/km² (1,700/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	91587 / 91160
Elevation	43–158 m (141–518 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.

Saulx-les-Chartreux is a commune in the Essonne department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 20 kilometres from the center of Paris.

Inhabitants of Saulx-les-Chartreux are known as Salucéens.

History

The name of the city come from a tree: Saule (willow tree in French). Monks built a monastery in this village during the 11th century, and lived there until the Wars of Religion in 1592, when Condé soldiers came to burn the place.

On 11 July 1973, Varig Flight 820 crashed near the village, just before arriving in Orly airport. 123 people died, and 11 survived.

Famous people

Adolphe Adam (Musician and composer) lived in Saulx-les-Chartreux

Places and monuments

Notre Dame de l'Assomption, church built during 11th and 16th centuries
Forest with specific geologic place

References

INSEE
Mayors of Essonne Association (French)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saulx-les-Chartreux.

Saulx Les Chartreux website (French)
Mérimée database - Cultural heritage (French)
Land use (IAURIF) (English)

Communes in the Metropolitan Area of Paris

Population over 2 million	City of Paris

Population over 100,000	Argenteuil Boulogne-Billancourt Montreuil Saint-Denis

Population over 75,000	Asnières-sur-Seine Aubervilliers Aulnay-sous-Bois Champigny-sur-Marne Colombes Courbevoie Créteil Nanterre Rueil-Malmaison Versailles Vitry-sur-Seine

Population over 50,000	Antony Le Blanc-Mesnil Bondy Cergy Chelles Clamart Clichy Drancy Épinay-sur-Seine Évry Fontenay-sous-Bois Issy-les-Moulineaux Ivry-sur-Seine Levallois-Perret Maisons-Alfort Meaux Neuilly-sur-Seine Noisy-le-Grand Pantin Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Sarcelles Sartrouville Sevran Villejuif

Population over 25,000	Alfortville Athis-Mons Bagneux Bagnolet Bezons Bobigny Bois-Colombes Brunoy Bussy-Saint-Georges Cachan Charenton-le-Pont Châtenay-Malabry Châtillon Chatou Le Chesnay Choisy-le-Roi Clichy-sous-Bois Conflans-Sainte-Honorine Corbeil-Essonnes La Courneuve Draveil Élancourt Ermont Franconville Fresnes Gagny La Garenne-Colombes Garges-lès-Gonesse Gennevilliers Gonesse Goussainville Grigny Guyancourt L'Haÿ-les-Roses Herblay Houilles Le Kremlin-Bicêtre Livry-Gargan Malakoff Mantes-la-Jolie Massy Melun Meudon Montfermeil Montigny-le-Bretonneux Montrouge Les Mureaux Neuilly-sur-Marne Nogent-sur-Marne Noisy-le-Sec Palaiseau Le Perreux-sur-Marne Pierrefitte-sur-Seine Plaisir Le Plessis-Robinson Poissy Pontault-Combault Pontoise Puteaux Rambouillet Ris-Orangis Romainville Rosny-sous-Bois Saint-Cloud Saint-Germain-en-Laye Saint-Ouen Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Sannois Savigny-sur-Orge Savigny-le-Temple Stains Sucy-en-Brie Suresnes Taverny Thiais Trappes Tremblay-en-France Vanves Vigneux-sur-Seine Villemomble Villeneuve-la-Garenne Villeneuve-Saint-Georges Villeparisis Villepinte Villiers-le-Bel Villiers-sur-Marne Vincennes Viry-Châtillon Yerres

Population under 25,000	1,669 other communes

Communes of the Essonne department

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