Puteaux ( French pronunciation: [pyto] ) is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris , France. It is located in the heart of the Hauts-de-Seine department , 8.7 kilometres (5.4 mi) from the centre of Paris .
36-467: La Défense , Paris's business district hosting the tallest buildings in the metropolitan area , spreads over the northern part of Puteaux and parts of the neighbouring communes Courbevoie and Nanterre . The inhabitants of Puteaux are called Putéoliens in French. In 1148 Abbot Suger, the chief minister of kings Louis VI and Louis VII , established a landed estate named Putiauz , which went on to become
72-631: A large interchange station on Paris Métro Line 1, on Paris RER line A , on the Transilien La Défense suburban rail line, and on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line. Puteaux is also served by the T2 (tramway 2), in the La Défense-Issy-Val de Seine line. The Cercle de Puteaux hosted the tennis events for the 1900 Summer Olympics . Puteaux is the setting for
108-614: A population of 50,000 permanent residents and 75,000 students. La Défense is also visited by 8,000,000 tourists each year and houses an open-air museum . La Défense is named after the statue La Défense de Paris by Louis-Ernest Barrias , which was erected in 1883 to commemorate the soldiers who had defended Paris during the Franco-Prussian War . In September 1958, the Public Establishment for Installation of La Défense [ fr ] (EPAD) buildings (of which
144-410: A village of the same name. Suger also founded other settlements in the area, such as Carrières-sur-Seine , Vaucresson , and Villeneuve-la-Garenne , with the aim of attracting people into the region. This was reinforced by certain privileges which Suger granted to the inhabitants. The name Putiauz is likely to have come from the old French Putel , meaning a "quagmire" or "swamp", making reference to
180-410: Is an agency of the French government formed in 2004 and charged with the investigation into accidents involving all forms of land transport, including railways, urban guided transportation systems ( metros , trams ), cable-hauled transport systems, road transport ( heavy goods vehicles , and public transport by coach and bus), and canals and other navigable inland waterways. Prior to the formation of
216-618: Is considered authoritarian by certain people (the opposition but sometimes also certain people of their own political camp in Hauts-de-Seine). This criticism regularly has echoes in the media (like the daily newspapers Libération , Le Monde , the edition of Hauts-de-Seine of Le Parisien and the news magazine L'Express , which made a coverstory of it at the end of 2005). In September 2005, Charles Ceccaldi-Raynaud announced his intention to become mayor again, instead of his daughter. However, his daughter refused to resign. A lot of fixing
252-538: Is the Eiffel Tower . On 9 September 2008, La Défense celebrated its 50th anniversary with a huge fireworks display. In December 2005, Bernard Bled , CEO and chairman of EPAD (La Defense Management and Development Office) announced an ambitious nine-year development plan called "La Defense 2006–2015" . This important modernisation plan has to give a new dimension to the district and focuses on four main axes: regenerate outdated skyscrapers, allow new buildings, improve
288-515: The Esso Tower was the first) were constructed and began to slowly replace the city's factories, shanties, and even a few farms. The Centre of New Industries and Technologies (CNIT) was built and first used in 1958. These "first generation" skyscrapers were all very similar in appearance, limited to a height of 100 metres (330 ft). In 1966, the Nobel Tower was the first office skyscraper built in
324-711: The Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs-Élysées , well beyond the Arc de Triomphe along the Avenue de la Grande Armée before culminating at La Défense. The district is centred in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine department communes of Courbevoie , La Garenne-Colombes , Nanterre and Puteaux . La Défense is primarily a business district and hosts
360-837: The Ministry of Ecological Transition . The Grande Arche also has the head offices of the French Marine Accident Investigation Office (BEAmer) and of the French Land Transport Accident Investigation Bureau (BEA-TT). Tour Pascal B [ fr ] in La Défense and in Puteaux at one time had the head offices of BEAmer, BEA-TT, and part of the head office of the Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Sea (a predecessor of
396-546: The Paris Métro was extended to La Défense, which made the area readily accessible to more of the city. On Bastille Day 1990, French electronic composer Jean-Michel Jarre staged an ambitious concert at the site, using the Grande Arche and three of the area's towers as projection screens, and building a pyramidal stage above the road. The free concert, titled Paris la Défense , attracted two million spectators, stretching all
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#1732851373947432-641: The Tour First belongs to AXA , constructed in 1974. It is 231 metres (758 ft) high, has 50 floors, and is the highest inhabited building in the Paris area. This title was previously held by the Tour Montparnasse , which was the tallest inhabited building until the Tour First was renovated between 2007 and 2011, bringing it to its current height from a previous 159 metres (522 ft); the tallest structure in Paris
468-480: The communes of Courbevoie , La Garenne-Colombes , Nanterre , and Puteaux . La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district, covering 560 hectares (1,400 acres), for 180,000 daily workers, with 72 glass and steel buildings (of which 20 are completed skyscrapers , out of 24 in the Paris region), and 3,500,000 square metres (38,000,000 sq ft) of office space. Around its Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), La Défense contains many of
504-541: The 1950s, is one of the principal business districts in Europe . It mainly consists of office buildings , but some notable dwellings can be found within the district as well ( Tour Défense 2000 , résidence Boieldieu). Two thirds of the territory of La Défense is located within Puteaux, the remainder being divided between Courbevoie and Nanterre. Thus, the CNIT , the Arche de la Défense and
540-513: The 1961 film The Long Absence ( Une aussi longue absence ), winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes . Puteaux is twinned with: La D%C3%A9fense La Défense ( French: [la de.fɑ̃s] ) is a major business district in France's Paris metropolitan area , 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the city limits . It is located in Île-de-France region's department of Hauts-de-Seine in
576-595: The BEA-TT, the government minister with responsibility for transportation would set up ad hoc investigation commissions, for example after the 1988 Paris-Gare de Lyon rail accident and 1999 Mont Blanc tunnel fire . These commissions were supported by the Conseil Général des Ponts et Chaussées (CGPC, "Civil Engineering General Council"). The CGPC's experience, particularly following the Mont Blanc tunnel fire, showed there
612-404: The Ministry of Ecological Transition), while other parts of the ministry were at Tour Pascal A and the Grande Arche. Tour Voltaire [ fr ] , also in Puteaux and La Défense, once had the head office of BEA-TT, and BEAmer. The tax revenue of La Défense makes Puteaux one of the richest communes of France. Puteaux receives forty million euros per year coming from the companies within
648-478: The Paris urban area 's tallest high-rises. Westfield Les Quatre Temps , a large shopping mall in La Défense, has 220 stores, 48 restaurants and a 24-screen movie theatre. Paris La Défense Arena , the largest indoor arena in Europe, was inaugurated in 2017. The district is located at the westernmost extremity of the 10-kilometre-long (6.2 mi) Axe historique ("historical axis") of Paris , which starts at
684-621: The Quatre Temps shopping mall are in Puteaux. The district Île de Puteaux , on which there are no dwellings besides some barges, shelters the sporting structures (tennis courts, football pitch , gymnasium, swimming pool) of Puteaux. A sporting complex, the Palais des sports , opened in July 2006. The Grande Arche and Tour Sequoia , both in La Défense and in Puteaux, have the administrative offices of
720-463: The area. In 1970, the RER line A railway was opened from La Défense to Étoile . In 1974, a contract for a Défense- Cergy high-speed hovercraft train was signed and soon abandoned. In the early 1970s, in response to great demand, a second generation of buildings began to appear, but the economic crisis in 1973 nearly halted all construction in the area. A third generation of towers began to appear in
756-543: The armament industry Atelier de Construction de Puteaux (APX), inks ( Charles Lorilleux [ fr ] ) and perfumes ( Coty ). Charles Ceccaldi-Raynaud ( Union for a Popular Movement , UMP) was the mayor of Puteaux from 1969 to 2004. In 2004 he was succeeded by his daughter Joëlle Ceccaldi-Raynaud (UMP). She was also temporarily appointed as a Member of Parliament for the 6th district of Hauts-de-Seine (Puteaux/ Neuilly-sur-Seine ) instead of Nicolas Sarkozy . The administration of Puteaux by Ceccaldi-Raynaud
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#1732851373947792-446: The balance between offices and residential housing, and make the transport of local employees from their homes to La Défense easier. There are three aims: building 150,000 square metres (1,600,000 sq ft) of offices within demolition/rebuilding projects, building 300,000 square metres (3,200,000 sq ft) of offices within new projects, and building 100,000 square metres (1,100,000 sq ft) of housing. In July 2006,
828-465: The condition of the area before it was drained for agriculture. But in another explanation, the name of Puteaux comes from the Latin word puteoli , the plural of puteolus , meaning "little wells" or "water holes". The spelling "Puteaux" is believed to have been first used in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. Legend has it that Puteaux inspired the story of the gadfly by Jean de La Fontaine . Located on
864-490: The district alone. Puteaux does not have a debt and its financial reserves, placed in Treasury bills, returns ten million euros in interest alone. The budget of Puteaux can thus exceed 200 million euros (reference 2005), for only 42,000 inhabitants. Puteaux has a long industrial past, in particular the car industry ( De Dion-Bouton , but also Unic , Saurer and Daimler-Benz ), aeronautics ( Zodiac Group , Morane-Saulnier ),
900-661: The early 1980s. The biggest shopping centre in Europe (at the time), the Quatre Temps , was created in 1981. In 1982, the EPAD launched the Tête Défense competition to find a monument to complete the Axe historique , which eventually led to the construction of Grande Arche at the west end of the quarter. During the same period, hotels were constructed, the CNIT was restructured, and in 1992, Line 1 of
936-434: The government confirmed this plan, which has to be carried out around 2015. It is justified by the strong estate pressure, which plays in favour of building new skyscrapers near Paris. Those constructions have the advantage of being more economical than small buildings. But it will have to overcome some difficulties: the French economy faced a short-term slowdown; the government is trying to balance tertiary sector employment in
972-550: The left bank of the river Seine , Puteaux borders Courbevoie to the north, Nanterre to the west and Suresnes to the south. In the east, Puteaux is connected to Paris by the bridge of Puteaux near Neuilly and by the bridge of Neuilly (which is also used by Paris Métro Line 1 ). The territory of the commune of Puteaux also includes the largest part of the Île de Puteaux, on the Seine. Within Puteaux several districts can be distinguished. The district Bas de Puteaux , located between
1008-564: The public an elaborate 3D animation film titled La Défense 2016 . Paris La Défense brings together the cluster of Leonardo da Vinci University Center , the IA Institut, a campus of EPITA and 4 business schools : EDC Paris Business School , ESSEC Business School , ICN Graduate Business School and IESEG School of Management It is also home to the European School of Paris-La Défense , an international primary and secondary school that
1044-490: The railway line and the Seine, is the oldest urbanized district. Notable in particular are the old church, the Théâtre des Hauts-de-Seine, the town hall and a commercial shopping mall near the rues Jaurès, Eichenberger and Chantecoq. The town hall was built in 1934 and is a typical example of the architecture of this time. The boulevard Richard Wallace is the Champs-Élysées of Puteaux. The district Haut de Puteaux , located to
1080-592: The way back to the Arc de Triomphe . This beat Jarre's own previous world record for the largest attendance for a musical concert. After Jean Michel Jarre, German DJ Sash! and the singer La Trec set the video clip for their song Stay at La Défense in 1997. After a stagnation in new development in the mid-1990s, La Défense is once again expanding and is now the largest purpose-built business district in Europe. Major corporations headquartered at La Défense include Neuf Cegetel , Société Générale , TotalEnergies , Aventis , Areva , and Arcelor . The tallest skyscraper,
1116-453: The west of the railway line, is a more recent district, made of several residences and HLM (résidences des rosiers, Cartault, Marcellin Berthelot , Bernard Palissy ) The Lorilleux residence, for example, was built on the site of the old ink manufacturing companies. The district La Défense is located in the north, separated by the circular boulevard. The district, developed since the end of
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1152-536: The whole region again, because today La Défense concentrates a major part of those jobs; and traffic is already saturated in the district, while it would need huge investments to extend transport infrastructures. It launched high-profile international competitions and/or construction approval of several key 300-to-320-metre (980 to 1,050 ft) tall sustainable development-style skyscrapers such as Tour Signal , Tour Phare , Hermitage Plaza , and Tour Generali . During said December 2005 Press Conference, EPAD released to
1188-418: Was a need for a new legal framework that guaranteed investigators access to sites, recordings and information covered by commercial confidentiality or pre-trial non-disclosure agreements. An Act of parliament passed on 3 January 2002 supplied the legal basis for technical investigations and reaffirms and mandates the investigatory principals of independence, and commits to the publishing of the report. The BEA-TT
1224-531: Was accredited as a European School in 2020. Besides the representative architecture, the area also houses an open-air museum with 70 statues and pieces of modern art , including the following works: 48°53′30″N 2°14′27″E / 48.89167°N 2.24083°E / 48.89167; 2.24083 French Land Transport Accident Investigation Bureau The French Land Transport Accident Investigation Bureau ( Bureau d'Enquêtes sur les Accidents de Transport Terrestre , abbreviated BEA-TT )
1260-651: Was founded by a decree on 26 January 2004, with the right of access to all elements useful to an investigation, even those covered by non disclosure or confidentiality requirements such as those pre-trial or for commercial and medical reasons. Its current head office is in the Grande Arche in La Défense business district and in Puteaux . It formerly was headquartered in the Tour Voltaire [ fr ] in La Défense business district and in Puteaux, and previously in
1296-597: Was needed, in particular in the Municipal council (reported in a dispatch of the AFP of November 21, 2005). The mayors of Puteaux: Puteaux is served by Puteaux station on the Transilien La Défense and Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail lines. Puteaux is also served by Esplanade de la Défense station on Paris Métro Line 1 , in the business district of La Défense , as well as by La Défense station ,
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