Marines, Val-d'Oise

Marines is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.

Marines
The town hall of Marines
Coat of arms
Location of Marines
Marines
Marines
Coordinates: 49°08′45″N 1°59′04″E
CountryFrance
RegionÎle-de-France
DepartmentVal-d'Oise
ArrondissementPontoise
CantonPontoise
Government
  Mayor (20012008) Jacqueline Maigret
Area
1
8.26 km2 (3.19 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
3,481
  Density420/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
95370 /95640
Elevation90–204 m (295–669 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Twinning

Marines has been twinned with the town of Kington in England since 1979.[2] The two places are of a similar population. In Marines there is a residential side-street called "Place Kington", whilst in Kington there is a covered space by the market hall called "Place-de-Marines".

The château de Marines, by Paul Cézanne, 1888-90

Education

Schools in Marines:[3]

  • Ecole maternelle des Murgers (preschool)
  • Ecole élémentaire Paul Cézanne
  • Collège des Hautiers (junior high school)

Trivia

Marines is located next to a village called Us. In the surrounding area, both villages are indicated with signs showing both names listed, which reads as "US MARINES". A regular joke in the region is to make people believe that these signs indicate a nearby U.S Marine Corps base.

gollark: So unless I bother to write a PR for anonymized GPS, people who don't go to the extra effort of writing their own implementation (as far as I'm aware nobody does so far) will be trackable by ID.
gollark: Computers could certainly not send their ID with every ping, but as of now they, well, do send it.
gollark: It runs on raw `modem`. For distances.
gollark: Nope!
gollark: `gps`, not `rednet`.

See also

References

  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Kington Town Council Archived 2013-10-17 at the Wayback Machine Twin towns
  3. "Les établissements scolaires." Marines, Val-d'Oise. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.


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