Puteaux

Puteaux is a commune inside the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is placed inside the coronary heart of the Hauts-de-Seine department 8.7 kilometres from the middle of Paris. La Defense, Paris' commercial enterprise district web hosting the tallest homes inside the metropolitan vicinity, spreads over the northern part of Puteaux and components of the neighbouring communes Courbevoie and Nanterre. The inhabitants of Puteaux are known as Puteoliens.

The creation of the metropolis dates from 1148, with the aid of Abbot Suger and gave him the call Putiauz. The foundation of Puteaux part of numerous other towns within the area via Abbot Suger, as Carrières-sur-Seine, Vaucresson or Villeneuve-l. A. -Garenne and aimed to draw humans in the vicinity. This enchantment changed into bolstered by certain privileges granted by way of the Abbot Suger. The name Putiauz comes from the antique French Putel, this means that a quagmire"or swamp" and changed into actually making connection with the circumstance of the area earlier than its reorganization.

The tax sales of La Defense makes Puteaux one of the richest communes of France. Puteaux receives forty million euros according to year coming from the agencies within the district alone. Puteaux does not have a debt and its economic reserves, placed in Treasury bills, returns ten million euros in interest by myself. The price range of Puteaux can thus exceed 200 million euros reference 2005, for most effective 42,000 inhabitants.