Meulan-en-Yvelines (, before 2010: Meulan)Décret n° 2010-772 du 8 juillet 2010 portant changement de nom de communes, Légifrance. is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It hosted part of the sailing events for the 1900 Summer Olympics held in neighbouring Paris, and would do so again 24 years later.
History In 1435, as a part of the Hundred Years' War, Ambroise de Loré and Jean de Dunois defeated the English nearby. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
Meulan hosted the first regatta in the sailing event at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Population
Heraldry The coat of arms of Meulan-en-Yvelines is blazoned as:
Azure semy-de-lys or, a chief chequy or and gules of four tiers.
The shield of arms is composed of the ancient arms of France, granted to the village as an augmentation of honour by Henri IV in 1590, with a chief displaying the first four tiers of the chequy or and gules arms of the ancient Counts of Meulan.
Notable people Abdoulaye Doucouré (born 1993), footballer David Douillet (born 1969), judoka
Frederic Esther (born 1972), boxer Elie Konki (born 1992), boxer Ferland Mendy (born 1995), footballer Kevin Mendy (born 1992), basketball player M'Baye Niang (born 1994), footballer Ibrahim Sacko (born 1993), footballer Maurice Thiriet (1906–1972), composer Yannick Zachee (born 1986), basketball player
Twin towns – sister cities Meulan is twinned with: Arraiolos, Portugal Kilsyth, Scotland, United Kingdom Taufkirchen, Germany
See also Aubette de Meulan Communes of the Yvelines department
References
Sports-reference.com Summer Olympics Paris 20 May 1900 sailing mixed open results. Retrieved 14 November 2010. 1924 Olympics official report. pp. 582–3.