Maisons-Laffitte

Maisons-Laffitte is a railway station in Maisons-Laffitte, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France. It is on the Paris–Le Havre railway. The rer line A passes through the station. The station has a glass entrance with blue glass and is built in red bricks. The closest station to Maisons-Laffitte is the one of Sartrouville which is 1.3 km (0.81 mi) away. It is composed of two accessible platforms, both which are used for the rer line A.

The International School of France, or Ermitage, is an international day and boarding school in Maisons-Laffitte, just outside Paris, France. The school, which was founded in 1941 by a woman seeking to improve conditions of students during World War II, offers an English bilingual education up to French Baccalaureate / International Baccalaureate (IB) level. This is a day school with 5- and 7-day boarding houses. Ermitage focuses on children with different backgrounds from all around the world, not just France. In 2009, the school began offering the IB Diploma Programme. In 2018 the school was also authorised to offer the IB Middle Years Programme. The school is headed by Benjamin Hunter. Enrollment was 1100 students in 2012. Student ages range from 21/2 (TPS) through 19 (Terminale, equivalent to Year 13 in Great Britain or grade 12 in the US).

The Château de Maisons (now Château de Maisons-Laffitte), designed by François Mansart from 1630 to 1651, is a prime example of French baroque architecture and a reference point in the history of French architecture. The château is located in Maisons-Laffitte, a northwestern suburb of Paris, in the department of Yvelines, Île-de-France.

Sous lieutenant René Paul Louis Dousinelle was a French World War I flying ace credited with nine confirmed and three unconfirmed aerial victories.

Sartrouville is a railway station serving Sartrouville, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France. It is on the Paris–Le Havre railway.

The canton of Sartrouville is an administrative division of the Yvelines department, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Sartrouville.It consists of the following communes: Maisons-Laffitte Le Mesnil-le-Roi Sartrouville

Le Mesnil-le-Roi (French pronunciation: [lə mɛnil lə ʁwa] (listen)) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is about 8 km (5 mi) from Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The name "Mesnil" comes from Latin: mansionilis meaning "little estate". The name "Le Mesnil-le-Roi" could be said "The King's small estate" (Francis I). On the other hand, the name of Mesnil-le-Roi in the time of the French Revolution was Le Mesnil-Carrières, "Mesnil quarries". The inhabitants are called Mesnilois (male) and Mesniloise (female).

Sartrouville (French: [saʁtʁuvil] (listen)) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. it is located in the north-western suburbs of Paris, 17.1 km (10.6 mi) from the center of Paris.

The Hippodrome de Maisons-Laffitte at 1 avenue de la Pelouse in the northwestern Parisian suburb of Maisons-Laffitte in France was a turf horse racing facility and track for Thoroughbred flat racing. Opened in 1878 by Joseph Oller, inventor of the pari-mutuel machine, it sits on 92 hectares that belonged to the wealthy banker Jacques Laffitte. The nearby Château de Maisons-Laffitte is home to The Museum of the Racehorse. In November 2018 France Galop announced that the racecourse would close at the end of 2019 due to financial pressures on the organisation. The final meeting was held on 29th October 2019. Despite the efforts of local government officials there are no plans to re-open the track and the racing surface has been allowed fall into disrepair.The racecourse layout was unique as it was one of the few courses in the world that staged both left- and right-handed races. It also featured a 2,000-metre straight track, one of the longest in Europe and three different winning posts.From early March through to the end of November, the major annual Conditions races at Hippodrome de Maisons-Laffitte were: Prix Eugène Adam Prix Robert Papin Prix Messidor La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte Prix Eclipse Prix de Seine-et-Oise Critérium de Maisons-Laffitte Prix Miesque

Montesson (French pronunciation: ​[mɔ̃tesɔ̃]) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris. Transport in Montesson is served by buses with T-tickets as well as by several Paris-suburban lines: Line 01, Line 04, Line 07, Line 19, Line 22. The bus tickets have a category called "Bus T" which is for occasional users and replaces the old tickets in the notebooks of the previous bus network. The T ticket is also valid on the entire metro (Paris and suburbs) on the RER lines of the RATP and the SNCF. It is sold for a single price of 1.70 € for a journey or 12.50 € for a book of 10. It can be purchased all around the Ile de France metro stations, RER stations, bus terminals, and RATP authorized dealers.

La Frette-sur-Seine (French pronunciation: [la fʁɛt syʁ sɛn] (listen), literally La Frette on Seine) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.

Houilles–Carrières-sur-Seine station (French: Gare de Houilles-Carrières-sur-Seine) is a railway station in Houilles, a suburb of Paris, on the Paris–Le Havre railway. Trains arrive at the station from Gare Saint-Lazare and the RER.