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Coordinates: 49°00′18″N 2°31′08″E / 49.0050°N 2.5189°E / 49.0050; 2.5189

Commune of Roissy-en-France
Saint Eloi church
Location
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-d'Oise
Arrondissement	Sarcelles
Canton	Gonesse
Intercommunality	CC Roissy Porte de France
Mayor	André Toulouse (2001–2008)
Statistics
Elevation	95 m (310 ft) avg.
Land area1	14.09 km2 (5.44 sq mi)
Population2	2,367  (1999)
- Density	168 /km2 (440 /sq mi)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	95527/ 95700
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coat of arms

Roissy-en-France (colloquially simply called Roissy) is a commune in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France in the Val d'Oise department. It is located 20.7 km (12.9 mi). (12.9 miles) from the center of Paris.

One-quarter of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (France's main airport), but none of the terminals, are located on the territory of the commune of Roissy-en-France, which gave its original name to the airport. Later renamed Charles de Gaulle Airport, the airport is still commonly referred to as Roissy Airport in France. The rest of the airport lies on the territory of the commune of Tremblay-en-France and several other communes.

[edit] Name

In the name Roissy-en-France, "France" does not refer to the country of France, but it refers to an area (pays) of the historical province called the Île de France, known as the pays de France. Île-de-France was made up of several pays: the pays de France, Parisis, Mantois, Hurepoix, and so on. Pays de France was the fertile plain located immediately north of the city of Paris, with the city of Saint-Denis at its centre. Pays de France is now almost entirely built-up, being covered by the northern suburbs of Paris. Pays de France is also known as the plaine de France ("plain of France"), and the name of this old pays still appears in the name of some communes in the northern suburbs of Paris, such as Roissy-en-France (which literally means "Roissy in the pays de France").

[edit] Demographics

As of the census of 1999, the population was 2,367.
The estimate for 2006 was 2,564.

[edit] Transport

Roissy-en-France is served by no station of the Paris Métro, RER, or suburban rail network. The closest station to Roissy-en-France is Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1 station on Paris RER line B. This station is located inside the Airport, on the part of the airport belonging to the commune of Tremblay-en-France, 3 km (1.9 mi).(1.9 miles) from the town center of Roissy-en-France.

[edit] Economy

Air France's head office is located in the Roissypôle complex on the grounds of Charles de Gaulle Airport and in Tremblay-en-France,^[1][2][3] near Roissy-en-France.^[4]

[edit] Literary reference

Roissy is the location where the action of the two explicit sadomasochistic novels Story of O (Histoire d'O), and its sequel Retour à Roissy by Pauline Réage take place.

[edit] See also

• Communes of the Val-d'Oise department

[edit] References

• Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise (French)
• INSEE commune file

[edit] External links

Paris portal

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Roissy-en-France

• Official website (French)
• Mérimée database - Cultural heritage (French)
• Land use (IAURIF) (English)

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