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![[Flag of Velizy-Villacoublay]](../images/f/fr-78-vv.gif)
by Arnaud Leroy
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Vélizy-Villacoubly (20,000 inhabitants) is a municipality of 20,000 inhabitants located south-west of Paris. The area of the municipality is 909 hectares, from which 313 belongs to the national forest of Meudon.
In the Middle Ages, the domains of Vélizy, Villacoublay and l'Ursine belonged to the Hôtel Dieu (General Hospital) of Paris. In 1695, King Louis XIV bought l'Ursine and Villacoublay to increase his hunting ground. Vélizy was incorporated into the royal hunting ground by Louis XVI.
In the XIXth century, Vélizy was trashed and burned two times by the Prussians, in 1815 - and then nicknamed Little Moscow - and in 1870-1871. At that time, Vélizy and the hamlet of Villacoublay had a population of 270. Vélizy-Villacoublay was one of the biggest grain-producing municipalities of the department (then called Seine-et-Oise), the production being divided among three big estates.
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