Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine (92) (literally "Seine Heights") is a département in France. It is part of the Île-de-France région, is adjacent to the City of Paris and forms part of the western suburbs of Paris. It is small and densely populated and contains the modern office, theatre, and shopping complex known as La Défense with its Grande Arche.

Geography

Hauts-de-Seine and two other small départements, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne, form a ring around Paris, known as the petite couronne (i.e. "inner ring").

Administration

Hauts-de-Seine is made up of 3 departmental arrondissements and 36 communes:

Arrondissement of Antony	Arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt	Arrondissement of Nanterre
Antony Châtenay-Malabry Sceaux Bourg-la-Reine Bagneux Fontenay-aux-Roses Le Plessis-Robinson Clamart Châtillon Montrouge Malakoff Vanves	Issy-les-Moulineaux Boulogne-Billancourt Meudon Sèvres Chaville Ville-d'Avray Saint-Cloud Marnes-la-Coquette Vaucresson	Garches Rueil-Malmaison Suresnes Puteaux Nanterre Colombes La Garenne-Colombes Bois-Colombes Courbevoie Neuilly-sur-Seine Levallois-Perret Clichy Asnières-sur-Seine Gennevilliers Villeneuve-la-Garenne

History

The département of Hauts-de-Seine was created in 1968, from parts of the former départements of Seine and Seine-et-Oise.

In the 1990s and early 2000s the Hauts-de-Seine received national attention as the result of a corruption scandal concerning the misuse of public funds provided for the département's housing projects. Implicated were former minister and former president of the conseil général of the Hauts-de-Seine Charles Pasqua and other personalities of the RPR party. (See corruption scandals in the Paris region.)

Economy

Hauts-de-Seine is France's second wealthiest département (behind Paris), and one of Europe's richest area. Its GDP per capita was € 62,374 in 2003, according to INSEE official figures.

External links

• A driving trip across Issy-les-Moulineaux, Vanves, Malakoff, and Montrouge on You Tube
• Website of the Conseil Général (in French)