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Yvelines

Yvelines is a French department in the region of Île-de-France.HistoryYvelines was created from the western part of the former department of Seine-et-Oise on 1 January 1968 in accordance with a law passed on 10 January 1964 and a décret d'application (a decree specifying how a law should be enforced) from 26 February 1965. It inherited Seine-et-Oise's official number of 78.It gained the communes of Châteaufort and Toussus-le-Noble from the adjacent department of Essonne in 1969.The departmental capital, Versailles, which grew up around Louis XIV's château, was also the French capital for more than a century under the Ancien Régime and again between 1871 and 1879 during the early years of the Third Republic. Since then the château has continued to welcome the French Parliament when it is called upon to sit in a congressional sitting (with both houses sitting together) in order to enact constitutional changes or to listen to a formal declaration by the president. Yvelines is in Ile-de-France. Plan your vacation with our France route builder site and discover the best things to do in Yvelines.

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