Jouy-en-Josas
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Chateau of HEC-CRC
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 Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs |
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| Coordinates: 48°46′08″N 2°10′04″E / 48.7689°N 2.1678°ECoordinates: 48°46′08″N 2°10′04″E / 48.7689°N 2.1678°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Yvelines | |
| Arrondissement | Versailles | |
| Canton | Versailles-Sud | |
| Intercommunality | Grand Parc | |
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| • Mayor | Jacques Bellier | |
| Area1 | 10.14 km2 (3.92 sq mi) | |
| Population (2006)2 | 7,946 | |
| • Density | 780/km2 (2,000/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 78322 /78350 | |
| Elevation | 77–179 m (253–587 ft) (avg. 90 m or 300 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Jouy-en-Josas is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the south-western suburbs of Paris, 16.4 km (10.2 mi) from the center of Paris.
Jouy-en-Josas contains HEC School of Management.
Jouy-en-Josas is four kilometres to the south-east of Versailles, and 19r km to the south-west of Paris, in the middle of the valley of the Bièvre river. A town with nearly eight thousand inhabitants, half of Jouy-en-Josas is covered by forest.
The communes that surround Jouy-en-Josas are Vélizy-Villacoublay, to the north-east, Bièvres to the east, Saclay to the south, Toussus-le-Noble to the extreme south-west, Les Loges-en-Josas to the west, Buc to the north-west and Versailles to the north-north-west.
Jouy is a direct translation of Latin , both meaning "joy". Josas was the ancient name of an archdiaconate of the archbishop of Paris. Although many discoveries in various parts of the town attest to there once having been a Gallo-Roman presence there, the first traces of the construction of a village are of the ninth century. Stimulated by the presence of monks from the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, Jouy grew rapidly, but the population was progressively annihilated in the fourteenth century by a number of wars and epidemics. By 1466, there were only three houses left in the village.
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