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![[Flag of Thiverval-Grignon]](../images/f/fr-78-tg.gif)
by Pascal Vagnat
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Thiverval-Grignon is a municipality of c. 400 inhabitants, located 20 km west of Versailles. The municipality is made of the two villages of Thiverval and Grignon. The municipality was originally named Thiverval. A decree from 18 October 1952 changed its name to Thiverval-Grignon.
As it is the case in many places in Ile-de-France, remains of the Prehistoric times have been found in Thiverval-Grignon. There were also settlements in the area in the Gallo-Roman times. The ancient roads to the cities of Meulan and Poissy are indeed remains of Roman ways.
The village was granted a parish status in the XIth century. A charter signed by King of France Philippe I in 1061 mentioned Thiverval (Tyverval) and Grignon (Greygnon) as dependances of the chapter of Poissy. The building of the parish church began in the XIIth century. A legend says that an early church was built in Thiverval by Clovis, who threw away three feathers and built three churches on their landing point. In the XIIIth century, the parish of Thiverval and the fief of Grignon were a dependance of the ch&aci