Roman Catholic Diocese of Nanterre

Nanterre Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Sainte-Geneviève-et-Saint-Maurice de Nanterre) is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Nanterre, France. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Nanterre. Formerly Nanterre Parish Church, it became the Nanterre Cathedral after the establishment of the diocese in 1966.

Nanterre-Ville is a railway station in Nanterre on the A1 branch of the Paris RER commuter rail line. Trains come every 10 minutes and the area is about 12 minutes ride from La Defense business district and about 18 minutes from the Arc de Triomphe.

Nanterre (, French: [nɑ̃tɛʁ] (listen)) is the prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department in the western suburbs of Paris. It is located some 11 km (6.8 mi) northwest of the centre of Paris. In 2018, the commune had a population of 96,807. The eastern part of Nanterre, bordering the communes of Courbevoie and Puteaux, contains a small part of the La Défense business district of Paris and some of the tallest buildings in the Paris region. Because the headquarters of many major corporations are located in La Défense, the court of Nanterre is well known in the media for the number of high-profile lawsuits and trials that take place in it. The city of Nanterre also includes the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, one of the largest universities in the Paris region.

The arrondissement of Nanterre is an arrondissement of France in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the Île-de-France region. It has 17 communes. Its population is 888,181 (2016), and its area is 91.8 km2 (35.4 sq mi).

CESI, formerly Centre des études supérieures industrielles, is a French graduate engineering school created in 1958.Its headquarters are in Nanterre close to Paris and it is located in 29 campuses in France, Spain, Algeria and Cameroun.The College is member of the Union of Independent Grandes Écoles.

The Nanterre massacre was a mass murder that occurred on 27 March 2002, in Nanterre, France. Gunman Richard Durn opened fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councillors and the injury of nineteen others. Durn committed suicide the following day, by leaping from a police station window during questioning.

The canton of Nanterre-1 is an administrative division of the Hauts-de-Seine department, in northern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Nanterre.It consists of the following communes: Nanterre (partly)

The canton of Nanterre-2 is an administrative division of the Hauts-de-Seine department, in northern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Nanterre.It consists of the following communes: Nanterre (partly) Suresnes

Palais des Sports Maurice Thorez, or Palais des Sports de Nanterre, is an indoor sporting arena that is located in Nanterre, Paris, France. The arena is named after Maurice Thorez. The capacity of the arena for basketball games is 3,000. It is the home arena of the French League basketball club Nanterre 92 for French national domestic league games and also for EuroCup and Champions League games.

The Stell Hospital is a teaching hospital in Rueil-Malmaison. It is a teaching hospital of Sorbonne University.It was established in August 1903 by American philanthropist Edward Tuck and is named after his wife Julia Stell.

The canton of Rueil-Malmaison is an administrative division of the Hauts-de-Seine department in northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Rueil-Malmaison.It consists of the following communes: Rueil-Malmaison

The (First) Battle of Buzenval, part of the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. The besieged troops in Paris, under the orders of General Louis Trochu, made a sortie in the direction of Versailles.