In 1148 Abbot Suger, the chief minister of kingsLouis VI andLouis VII, established a landed estate namedPutiauz, which went on to become a village of the same name. Suger also founded other settlements in the area, such asCarrières-sur-Seine,Vaucresson, andVilleneuve-la-Garenne, with the aim of attracting people into the region. This was reinforced by certain privileges which Suger granted to the inhabitants.
The namePutiauz is likely to have come from the old FrenchPutel, meaning a "quagmire" or "swamp", making reference to the condition of the area before it was drained for agriculture. But in another explanation, the name of Puteaux comes from the Latin wordputeoli, the plural ofputeolus, meaning "little wells" or "water holes". The spelling "Puteaux" is believed to have been first used in the sixteenth or seventeenth century.
Legend has it that Puteaux inspired the story of the gadfly byJean de La Fontaine.
Located on the left bank of the riverSeine, Puteaux bordersCourbevoie to the north,Nanterre to the west andSuresnes to the south. In the east, Puteaux is connected to Paris by the bridge of Puteaux nearNeuilly and by the bridge of Neuilly (which is also used byParis Métro Line 1). The territory of the commune of Puteaux also includes the largest part of the Île de Puteaux, on the Seine.
Within Puteaux several districts can be distinguished.
The districtBas de Puteaux, located between the railway line and the Seine, is the oldest urbanized district. Notable in particular are the old church, the Théâtre des Hauts-de-Seine, the town hall and a commercialshopping mall near the rues Jaurès, Eichenberger and Chantecoq. The town hall was built in 1934 and is a typical example of the architecture of this time. The boulevardRichard Wallace is theChamps-Élysées of Puteaux.
The districtHaut de Puteaux, located to the west of the railway line, is a more recent district, made of several residences andHLM (résidences des rosiers, Cartault,Marcellin Berthelot,Bernard Palissy) The Lorilleux residence, for example, was built on the site of the old ink manufacturing companies.
The districtLa Défense is located in the north, separated by the circular boulevard. The district, developed since the end of the 1950s, is one of the principalbusiness districts inEurope. It mainly consists ofoffice buildings, but some notable dwellings can be found within the district as well (Tour Défense 2000, résidence Boieldieu). Two thirds of the territory of La Défense is located within Puteaux, the remainder being divided between Courbevoie and Nanterre. Thus, theCNIT, theArche de la Défense and the Quatre Temps shopping mall are in Puteaux.
The districtÎle de Puteaux, on which there are no dwellings besides some barges, shelters the sporting structures (tennis courts,footballpitch, gymnasium, swimming pool) of Puteaux. A sporting complex, thePalais des sports, opened in July 2006.
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Tour Pascal B [fr] in La Défense and in Puteaux at one time had the head offices of BEAmer,[8] BEA-TT,[9] and part of the head office of the Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Sea (a predecessor of the Ministry of Ecological Transition), while other parts of the ministry were atTour Pascal A and the Grande Arche.[10]Tour Voltaire [fr], also in Puteaux and La Défense, once had the head office of BEA-TT,[11] and BEAmer.[12]
Thetax revenue of La Défense makes Puteaux one of the richest communes of France. Puteaux receives forty million euros per year coming from the companies within the district alone. Puteaux does not have a debt and its financial reserves, placed in Treasury bills, returns ten million euros in interest alone. The budget of Puteaux can thus exceed 200 million euros (reference 2005), for only 42,000 inhabitants.
The administration of Puteaux by Ceccaldi-Raynaud is considered authoritarian by certain people (the opposition but sometimes also certain people of their own political camp in Hauts-de-Seine). This criticism regularly has echoes in the media (like the daily newspapersLibération,Le Monde, the edition of Hauts-de-Seine ofLe Parisien and the news magazineL'Express, which made a coverstory of it at the end of 2005).
In September 2005, Charles Ceccaldi-Raynaud announced his intention to become mayor again, instead of his daughter. However, his daughter refused to resign. A lot of fixing was needed, in particular in theMunicipal council (reported in a dispatch of theAFP of November 21, 2005).
Puteaux is also served byEsplanade de la Défense station onParis Métro Line 1, in the business district ofLa Défense, as well as byLa Défense station, a large interchange station on Paris Métro Line 1, on ParisRER line A, on the Transilien La Défense suburban rail line, and on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line. Puteaux is also served by the T2 (tramway 2), in the La Défense-Issy-Val de Seine line.
^"Contact" (in French). Ministry of Ecological Transition. 2023-10-10. Retrieved2024-08-05.
^"Contact us." Bureau d'Enquêtes sur les Événements de Mer. Retrieved on June 22, 2017. "Bureau d’enquêtes sur les événements de mer (BEAmer) Arche Sud 92055 LA DEFENSE CEDEX FRANCE" - Note thepedestrian access map
^"Organisation" (in French). French Land Transport Accident Investigation Bureau. Retrieved2024-07-27.Grande Arche - Paroi Sud, 29e étage, 92055 LA DEFENSE Cedex
^"L'organisation" (in French). French Land Transport Accident Investigation Bureau. Archived fromthe original on 2006-10-13. Retrieved2024-07-27.Tour Pascal B, 16ème étage, 92055 LA DEFENSE Cedex
^"Contacter le BEA-TT" (in French). Bureau d'Enquêtes sur les Accidents de Transport Terrestre. Archived fromthe original on 31 December 2014. Retrieved8 February 2015. - "Tour Voltaire, 7ème étage, 92055 LA DEFENSE Cedex"
^"Contact usArchived 2012-02-20 at theWayback Machine." () Bureau d'Enquêtes sur les Événements de Mer. Retrieved on 16 February 2012. "MAIL ADDRESSBEAmer Tour Voltaire 92055 LA DEFENSE CEDEX"
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