Houilles () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is a northwestern suburb of Paris, located from the center of Paris.
History The Hôtel de Ville is a former private house which was acquired and converted by the town council in 1905.
Until 2000, the command post of the French Navy's Ballistic Missile Submarine Force was based at Houilles.
Victor Schœlcher, a French abolitionist writer in the 19th century and the main spokesman for a group from Paris who worked for the abolition of slavery died in Houilles on 25 December 1893. A nursery school, a street and a statue carry his name. The house in which he died in 1893 is at 26 Avenue Schœlcher. The commune of Houilles acquired the house in 2011.
Population
Transport Houilles is served by Houilles–Carrières-sur-Seine station on Paris RER line A and on the Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare suburban rail line.
Education Houilles has fifteen preschool and elementary schools and three junior high schools."Liste des établissements scolaires." Houilles. Retrieved on September 2, 2016.
Junior high schools: Collège Alphonse-de-Lamartine Collège Guy-de-Maupassant Collège Sainte-Thérèse
Nearby senior high schools/sixth form colleges: Lycée Les-Pierres-Vives (Carrières-sur-Seine) Lycée Jules-Verne (Sartrouville) Lycée Évariste-Galois (Sartrouville)
International relations
Houilles is twinned with: Celorico de Basto, Portugal Chesham, England, United Kingdom Friedrichsdorf, Germany Schœlcher, Martinique, France
See also Communes of the Yvelines department
References
External links
Official website (in French)