Hauts-de-Seine is a département in the Île-de-France region of France. It covers Paris's western inner suburbs. It is bordered by Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne to the east, Val-d'Oise to the north, Yvelines to the west and Essonne to the south. With a population of 1,624,357 and a total area of 176 square kilometres, it is the second most highly-densely populated department of France, after Paris. It is the fifth most populous department in France. Its prefecture is Nanterre, but Boulogne-Billancourt, one of its two subprefectures, alongside Antony, has a larger population.
Yvelines is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207. Its prefecture is Versailles, home to the Palace of Versailles, the principal residence of the King of France from 1682 until 1789, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. Yvelines' subprefectures are Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Mantes-la-Jolie and Rambouillet.
Ferdinand VII was King of Spain during the early 19th century. He reigned briefly in 1808 and then again from 1813 to his death in 1833. He was known to his supporters as el Deseado and to his detractors as el ReyFelón.
The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western (downstream) point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris, then known as Lutetia and, during the medieval period, the heart of the city.
Ferdinand Édouard Buisson was a French educational bureaucrat, pacifist, and Radical-Socialist politician. He presided over the League of Education from 1902 to 1906 and over the Human Rights League (LDH) from 1914 to 1926. In 1927, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to him jointly with Ludwig Quidde. Philosopher and educator, he was Director of Primary Education. He was the author of a thesis on Sebastian Castellio, in whom he saw a "liberal Protestant" in his image. Ferdinand Buisson was the president of the National Association of Freethinkers. In 1905, he chaired the parliamentary committee to implement the separation of church and state. Famous for his fight for secular education through the League of Education, he coined the term laïcité ("secularism").
The Palais Bourbon is the meeting place of the National Assembly, the lower legislative chamber of the French Parliament. It is located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, on the Rive Gauche of the Seine, across from the Place de la Concorde.
Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville was a French politician and author.
Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus was a French journalist and politician, unrelated to his contemporary Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
The Pineton de Chambrun family is a French noble family, of which several members have taken an important part in French politics. Their nobility was proven in 1491. The Pineton de Chambrun originally come from the Gévaudan region, where many members were mayors or deputies of Lozère.
Allassac is a commune in the Corrèze department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of central France.
The Château de la Grange-Bléneau is a castle in the commune of Courpalay in the Seine-et-Marne département of France.
Christophe Bouillon was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2020. He represented Seine-Maritime's 5th constituency as a member of the Socialist, Radical, Citizen and Miscellaneous Left. From 2015 to 2018 he was chairman of the board of ANDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency.
Pierre Emmanuel Tirard was a French politician.
The 2nd constituency of the Hauts-de-Seine is a French legislative constituency in the Hauts-de-Seine département. It elects one Member of Parliament to the National Assembly.
De Lasteyrie may refer to:
Guy Louis Jules de Lasteyrie du Saillant, 5th Marquis de Lasteyrie du Saillant, of Ponthieu, was a member of the Lasteyrie du Saillant noble family of France.
François Jean Léon de Maleville was a French politician. Under the July Monarchy he was a deputy from 1834 to 1848. During the French Second Republic he was a representative in the Constituent Assembly in 1848–49, and was Minister of the Interior for a few days in 1848. He was a representative in the Legislative Assembly in 1849-52, and was again elected as representative in 1871-75, and as Senator from 1875 until his death in 1879.
Robert de Lasteyrie was a French archivist and politician. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1893 to 1898, representing Corrèze.
Charles de Lasteyrie (1877-1936) was a French banker and politician. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1919 to 1924, representing Corrèze, and from 1928 to 1936, representing the Seine department. He served as the French Minister of Finance from 15 January 1922 to 26 March 1924. He died on 28 June 1936.
A senator for life was an honorary position in the French Third Republic, similar to that of senator for life in other countries. At one time the French Senate was composed of 300 members, of whom 75 were inamovible ("unremovable").
