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2014-12-22 Saint Germain-en-Laye, musée-archeologie nationale, Yvelines, Île-de-France DSCN6086

Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a French commune located twenty kilometers west of Paris in the department of Yvelines and the region Île-de-France.

The town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye had its history regarding the presence of the castle, which is a regular residence of the kings of France, which dropped its importance, however, due to the installation of Louis XIV at Versailles, and the woods, the former royal hunting estate. At the beginning of the xxi century it was the seat of a sub-prefecture of the Yvelines and became a residential town sought international character marked. Its inhabitants are called Saint-Germanois or St. Germinois or Sangermanois.

 

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