Canton of Choisy-le-Roi

Choisy-le-Roi (French pronunciation: [ʃwazi lə ʁwa] (listen)) is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department, in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France.

Choisy-le-Roi station (French: Gare de Choisy-le-Roi) is a station in Paris' express suburban rail system, the RER. It is situated on the Paris–Bordeaux railway. It serves the commune of Choisy-le-Roi, in the Val-de-Marne department.

Choisy Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Louis-et-Saint-Nicolas de Choisy), also known as the Church of St. Louis and St. Nicholas (Église Saint-Louis Saint-Nicolas), is a Roman Catholic church located in Choisy-le-Roi, France. From 1966, when the diocese was established, to 1987, when the present Créteil Cathedral was inaugurated, it served as the first cathedral of the diocese of Créteil. The church was built by the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel under commission from Louis XV to provide a suitable place of worship for the court when the king was staying at his newly purchased residence at the Château de Choisy. The first stone was laid, by the king himself, on 4 July 1748, and the church was dedicated in the presence of the king, the court and the Archbishop of Paris on 21 September 1760.

Val-de-Marne (French pronunciation: [val də maʁn] (listen), "Valley of the Marne") is a French department, named after the river Marne, located in the Île-de-France region. The department is situated to the southeast of the city of Paris and in the Grand Paris.

Varig Flight 820 was a flight of the Brazilian airline Varig that departed from Galeão International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 11, 1973, for Orly Airport, in Paris, France. The plane, a Boeing 707, registration PP-VJZ, made an emergency landing on onion fields about four kilometers from Orly Airport, due to smoke in the cabin from a fire in a lavatory. The fire caused 123 deaths; there were only 11 survivors (ten crew members and one passenger).

Les Saules is a station in Paris's express suburban rail system, the RER. It serves the commune of Orly, in the Val-de-Marne department.

Thiais (French pronunciation: [tjɛ] (listen)) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 10.3 km (6.4 mi) from the center of Paris.The name Thiais comes from Medieval Latin Theodasium or Theodaxium, meaning "estate of Theodasius", a Gallo-Roman landowner. The Austrian writer Joseph Roth, exiled due to his opposition to the Nazi regime, lived at Thiais at the end of the 1930s and is buried at the local cemetery. The tomb of Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin is also there. Expatriate American journalist and novelist William Gardner Smith died there in 1974.

Orly – Ville is a station in Paris' express suburban rail system, the RER. It serves the commune of Orly, in the Val-de-Marne department.

The canton of Thiais is an administrative division of the Val-de-Marne department, Île-de-France region, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Thiais.It consists of the following communes: Chevilly-Larue Rungis Thiais

The Canton of Orly (French: canton d'Orly) is an administrative division of the Val-de-Marne department, Île-de-France region, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Orly.It consists of the following communes: Ablon-sur-Seine Orly Villeneuve-le-Roi

Les Ardoines station (French: Gare des Ardoines) is a station in Paris' express suburban rail system, the RER. It is on the Paris–Bordeaux railway. It serves the commune of Vitry-sur-Seine, in the Val-de-Marne department.

Orly (French pronunciation: [ɔʁli] (listen)) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located 12.7 km (7.9 mi) from the center of Paris. The name of Orly came from Latin Aureliacum, "the villa of Aurelius". Orly Airport partially lies on the territory of the commune of Orly, which gave its name to the airport.