Montigny-le-Bretonneux (Municipality, Yvelines, France)

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• Presentation of Montigny-le-Bretonneux
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• Yvelines (Department, France)

Presentation of Montigny-le-Bretonneux

Montigny-le-Bretonneux (35,743 inhabitants) is the core municipality of the ville nouvelle of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, located near Versailles and made of the municipalities of Elancourt, Guyancourt, La Verrière, Magny-les-Hameaux, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Trappes and Voisins-le-Bretonneux. Montigny was in the past a rural village but is now the sixth largest city in the department of Yvelines, with 1,731 companies located on the municipal territory, including for instance the social seat of BMW France. As a consequence of its industrial development, the municipality increased its area from 686 ha to 1,045 ha in 1984 by incorporating a part of the municipality of Bois-d'Arcy. The current area of Montigny-le-Bretonneux is 1,067 ha.

The village of Montigny was mentioned for the first time as Montani in 1204 (archives of the cathedral Notre-Dame-de-Paris). It was then a small parish grouped around the church Saint-Martin. Later names of the village are Montiniacum (1250) and Montiniacum le Brestonneux (1351).
Abbot Leboeuf (1687-1760), historian of the diocese of Paris, believed that the epithet Brestonneux, sometimes Bristonneux (1547) or Bertonneux (1740), and eventual