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Elancourt (Municipality, Yvelines, France)

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Presentation of Elancourt

The city of Elancourt (22,635 inhabitants) is a part of the ville nouvelle of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, located near Versailles, south-west of Paris. The mayor of Elancourt recently announced that Elancourt would leave the ville nouvelle as soon as possible, which caused a big fuss, petitions etc.. The mayor is a locally prominent member of the governing party UMP, which officially supports the villes nouvelles and other kinds of municipal associations. The mayor already contributed to the fame of Elancourt in 1998, when he sued for "trademark infringement" the owner of an Internet domain name including the word Elancourt. After a two year battle, the Court of Cassation definitively nonsuited the plaintiff. The alleged infringer was a member of the municipal opposition.

The oldest known form of the name Elancourt is Aglini Curtis (IXth century), which probably meant Aglin's enclosed farm. The name of the place evolved as Ainlecurtis (1003), Herencurtem (1144), Erancourt (1206), Elsencourt (1249), Elencuria (12