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La Roche-sur-Yon (pronounced [la ʁɔʃ syʁ jɔ̃]) is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. It is the capital of the department. The demonym for its inhabitants is Yonnais.[2]
La Roche-sur-Yon | |
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Prefecture and commune | |
![Square Napoléon (Place Napoléon [fr])](/en/wiki/File:Place_Napol%C3%A9on_de_La_Roche-sur-Yon_depuis_l%27%C3%A9glise.jpg) © William Chevillon, CC BY-SA 3.0  Square Napoléon (Place Napoléon) | |
Coat of arms | |
Location of La Roche-sur-Yon | |
| Coordinates: | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Pays de la Loire |
| Department | Vendée |
| Arrondissement | La Roche-sur-Yon |
| Canton | La Roche-sur-Yon-1 and 2 |
| Intercommunality | La Roche-sur-Yon Agglomération |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Luc Bouard |
| Area 1 | 87.52 km2 (33.79 sq mi) |
| Population (Jan. 2018)[1] | 54,766 |
| • Density | 630/km2 (1,600/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 85191 /85000 |
| Elevation | 32–94 m (105–308 ft) (avg. 74 m or 243 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
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History
The town expanded significantly after Napoleon I chose the site as the new préfecture of the Vendée on 25 May 1804, replacing Fontenay-le-Comte (then under its revolutionary name of Fontenay-le-Peuple). At the time, most of La Roche had been eradicated in the Vendée Revolt (1793–96); the renamed Napoléonville was laid out and a fresh population of soldiers and civil servants was brought in. Napoléonville was designed to accommodate 15,000 people.[3]
The town was called successively:
- La Roche-sur-Yon (during the Ancien Régime and the French First Republic)
- Napoléon-sur-Yon (during the First French Empire)
- Bourbon-Vendée (during the French Restoration)
- Napoléon-Vendée (during the French Second Empire)
Geography
The river Yon flows southward through the commune and crosses the town.
Climate
| Climate data for La Roche-sur-Yon (1981–2010 averages) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 15.9 (60.6) |
20.2 (68.4) |
24.1 (75.4) |
28.1 (82.6) |
30.7 (87.3) |
36.9 (98.4) |
36.6 (97.9) |
38.7 (101.7) |
33.7 (92.7) |
29.9 (85.8) |
21.1 (70.0) |
18.7 (65.7) |
38.7 (101.7) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 8.5 (47.3) |
9.5 (49.1) |
12.5 (54.5) |
14.9 (58.8) |
18.8 (65.8) |
22.4 (72.3) |
24.5 (76.1) |
24.6 (76.3) |
21.8 (71.2) |
17.3 (63.1) |
12.0 (53.6) |
8.9 (48.0) |
16.3 (61.3) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 2.6 (36.7) |
2.2 (36.0) |
4.0 (39.2) |
5.5 (41.9) |
9.1 (48.4) |
11.8 (53.2) |
13.7 (56.7) |
13.4 (56.1) |
11.1 (52.0) |
9.0 (48.2) |
5.2 (41.4) |
2.9 (37.2) |
7.5 (45.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −14.9 (5.2) |
−15.4 (4.3) |
−10.3 (13.5) |
−4.1 (24.6) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
2.8 (37.0) |
7.2 (45.0) |
5.1 (41.2) |
2.5 (36.5) |
−4.5 (23.9) |
−7.1 (19.2) |
−9.5 (14.9) |
−15.4 (4.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 103.5 (4.07) |
66.0 (2.60) |
70.5 (2.78) |
67.9 (2.67) |
64.5 (2.54) |
44.5 (1.75) |
51.3 (2.02) |
46.1 (1.81) |
73.0 (2.87) |
107.6 (4.24) |
103.5 (4.07) |
102.5 (4.04) |
900.9 (35.47) |
| Average precipitation days | 12.5 | 10.1 | 10.8 | 11.1 | 9.1 | 7.6 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.8 | 12.4 | 13.4 | 12.5 | 121.6 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 72.4 | 102.8 | 145.4 | 171.1 | 198.8 | 230.6 | 232.3 | 229.7 | 194.2 | 124.1 | 81.2 | 69.4 | 1,852 |
| Source: Meteo France[4][5] | |||||||||||||
Population
The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of La Roche-sur-Yon proper, in its geography at the given years. The commune of La Roche-sur-Yon absorbed the former communes of Le Bourg-sous-la-Roche-sur-Yon and Saint-André-d'Ornay in 1964.[6]
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| Source: EHESS[6] and INSEE (1968-2017)[7] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Administration
The Communauté d'agglomération "La Roche-sur-Yon Agglomération" contains 15 communes:
- Aubigny
- Chaillé-sous-les-Ormeaux
- La Chaize-le-Vicomte
- Les Clouzeaux
- Dompierre-sur-Yon
- La Ferrière
- Fougeré
- Landeronde
- Mouilleron-le-Captif
- Nesmy
- La Roche-sur-Yon
- Saint-Florent-des-Bois
- Le Tablier
- Thorigny
- Venansault
La Roche-sur-Yon is the chief town of the Arrondissement of La Roche-sur-Yon, which covers 11 cantons, 92 communes, and has a population of 230,386 (1999 census).
La-Roche-sur-Yon is chief town of two cantons, Canton of La Roche-sur-Yon-1 and Canton of La Roche-sur-Yon-2.
Main sights
Napoléon's statue (1854)
Kiosk on Napoléon square
Napoléon square / Place Napoléon
Saint-Louis church
Saint-Louis church
Saint-Louis church organ
Saint Louis Church of La Roche-sur-Yon
Saint Louis Church of La Roche-sur-Yon
Theatre
Old Hospital
Museum
Post office
Prefecture building
Sacré-cœur church
Renaissance house (1566)
Old Palais de Justice
Benjamin Rabier media library
Train station
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Transport
The Gare de La Roche-sur-Yon railway station offers connections to Nantes, Paris, Les Sables-d'Olonne, Bordeaux and several regional destinations. The A87 motorway connects La Roche-sur-Yon with Les Sables-d'Olonne and Angers, the A83 with Nantes and Niort.
Education
The commune has designated attendance zones for its primary schools.[8]
Schools include:
- 2 public preschools (écoles maternelles)[9]
- 2 public elementary schools[9]
- 13 public school groups of combined preschools and elementary schools[9]
- 6 private elementary schools[9]
- Public junior high schools: Collège Auguste et Jean-Renoir, Collège mixte Les Gondoliers, Collège mixte Edouard Herriot, Collège Haxo[10]
- Private junior high schools: Collège mixte du Sacré-Coeur, Collège mixte Richelieu, Collège mixte Saint-Louis[10]
- Public senior high schools: Lycée Nature (general education and agricultural technology), Lycée d'état mixte Alfred-Kastler, Lycée polyvalent Jean de Lattre-de-Tassigny, Lycée polyvalent Pierre-Mendès-France, and Lycée professionnel Edoaurd Branly[11]
- Private senior high schools: Lycée Saint-François d'Assise, Lycée d'enseignement général et technologique Notre-Dame-du-Roc, Lycée les Etablières[11]
- One grande école : Institut catholique d'arts et métiers
Sports
In 2014 La Roche-sur-yon hosted the 2014 French championship of table tennis[12]
La Roche-sur-Yon's Vendéspace hosted one of the first round ties of the 2014 Davis Cup tennis tournament over the weekend of 31 January - 2 February 2014. France hosted Australia as both teams competed for a place in the World Group quarterfinals.
In 2015 La Roche-sur-Yon, will host the 2015 FIRS Men's Roller Hockey World Cup, the first time that a World Cup of roller hockey is held in France.
In June 2015 La Roche-sur-Yon's Vendéspace will host the qualification tournament for the World Championships in Savate Combat[13]
Twin towns – sister cities
La Roche-sur-Yon is twinned with:[14]
Gummersbach, Germany
Coleraine, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Drummondville, Canada
Cáceres, Spain, since 1982
Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, since 1989- Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany, since 2005
See also
References
- ^ "Populations légales 2018" . INSEE. 28 December 2020.
- ^ "yonnais - Wiktionary" . en.wiktionary.org. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ Graham Robb, The Discovery of France, Picador, London (2007), pp257-8
- ^ "Données climatiques de la station de La Roche-sur-Yon" (in French). Meteo France. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ "Climat Pays de la Loire" (in French). Meteo France. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ a b Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet La Roche-sur-Yon , EHESS. (in French)
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968 , INSEE
- ^ "Sectorisation scolaire 2016 ." La Roche-sur-Yon. Retrieved on 6 September 2016.
- ^ a b c d "[1] ." La Roche Sur-Yon. Retrieved on 6 September 2016.
- ^ a b "Collèges ." La Roche Sur-Yon. Retrieved on 6 September 2016.
- ^ a b "Lycées ." La Roche Sur-Yon. Retrieved on 6 September 2016.
- ^ "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Ouverture de session / Utilisateur - Vendespace" .
- ^ "Villes partenaires" . larochesuryon.fr (in French). La Roche-sur-Yon. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
External links
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to La Roche-sur-Yon. |
- Official website (in French)
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