Éragny (; sometimes unofficially called Éragny-sur-Oise ) is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the "new town" of Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, created in the 1960s.

Population

Inhabitants are called Éragniens (masculine) and Éragniennés (feminine) in French.

The population figures show very light growth the 30 last years after the very strong growth of 1975/1982.

Buildings

History

  • 1968: 1,056
  • 1975: 1,289
  • 1982: 5,138
  • 1990: 5,664
  • 1999: 5,682

The distribution and approximately of 50/50 for the area, the proportion collective/individual is also 50/50, which shows a balance in the distribution. Development and population growth was at a peak between 1975 and 1982 but has declined recently (18 in 9 years). This weak current rate of construction of residences reflects demand. Density of residences is still low for an urban area at 1200 /km<sup>2</sup>.

List of successive mayors :

Thibault Humbert (UMP) 2014–2020

Dominique Gillot (PS) 2001–2014

Murielle De Coster (UDF) 1995–2001

Louis Don Marino (PCF) 1971–1995

Geography

  • Area: 1.82 mile² (4.7&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>)
  • Altitude: 52 m

History

Situated on the Oise river, Éragny remained a small village until the 20th century. Its original inhabitants probably settled around the town's fountain during the Roman period and named the place Heriniacus or Areniacus. The site changed names several times over the following centuries – Eraisgny, Eraigny, Erargny, and finally settling on Éragny by the 10th century.

Local quarries have yielded stone tools from the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic.

Éragny and Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) were once a single parish, with Éragny the main settlement.

Documents from around 1100 AD spell the name as Herigniacus or Erinniacus.

In the early 12th century the vicomte de Pontoise, Raoul Deliès, gave a church dedicated to Saint Germain of Paris to the Cluniac Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs.

In 1868, almost half of the territory of Éragny was detached and became the commune of Neuville-sur-Oise.

With the arrival of the railroad started the exploitation of quarries used until then for local needs.

The rise of the ville nouvelle of Cergy-Pontoise, at the end of the 1960s, led to the town's population to mushroom. Many streets were born on what is called "le plateau" and Éragny took today's aspect with about 16,000 inhabitants loving their good living town.

Transportation

Éragny is served by Éragny–Neuville station on the Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare suburban rail line.

Education

The commune has seven primary school groups. The schools include:

  • Preschools (maternelles): de la Challe, Henri Fillette, Le Bois, Pablo Neruda, Les Dix Arpents, La Butte, Le Grillon
  • Elementary schools: Henri Fillette, Le Bois, Les Longues Rayes, Pablo Neruda, Les Dix Arpents, La Butte, Le Grillon

There is one junior high school, Collège Léonard de Vinci, and one vocational high school, Lycée Professionnel Auguste Escoffier.

Notable residents

  • Samuel Paty, middle school teacher killed and beheaded in 2020 in Islamist terrorist attack.

See also

  • Communes of the Val-d'Oise department

References

  • Official website
  • Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise