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Les Mureaux

commune in Yvelines, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ317433 ↗
Source-derived summary

Les Mureaux (French pronunciation: [le myʁo] ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the north-western suburbs of Paris, 35.9 km (22.3 mi) from the centre of Paris.

History

The Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1962.

Population

Transport

Les Mureaux is served by Les Mureaux station on the Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare suburban rail line.

Education

There are eleven preschools, eleven elementary schools, three junior high schools, and two senior high schools/sixth form colleges in Les Mureaux.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Les Mureaux” as commune in Yvelines, France. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mureaux, commune and Yvelines.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mureaux, commune and Yvelines providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q317433. VIAF identifies the subject as 159646688. The Library of Congress control number is n2004007183. Authority coordinates are 48.993, 1.908. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962.

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This entry incorporates text from “Les Mureaux” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.