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Vigneux-sur-Seine

commune in Essonne, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ842037
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Vigneux-sur-Seine (French pronunciation: [viɲø syʁ sɛn] ; lit. 'Vigneux-on-Seine') is a commune in the southeastern outer suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in Essonne, 17.6 km (10.9 mi) from the centre of Paris, on the departmental border with Val-de-Marne.

Inhabitants of Vigneux-sur-Seine are known as Vigneusiens (masculine) and Vigneusiennes (feminine) in French.

Toponymy

The name Vigneux derives from the Latin vinea, meaning 'vineyard'.

History

The Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1880 and extended in the 1970s.

Population

Transport

Vigneux-sur-Seine is served by Vigneux-sur-Seine station on Paris RER line D.

Twin towns – sister cities

Vigneux-sur-Seine is twinned with:

Limavady, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Monção, Portugal

Troyan, Bulgaria

See also

Communes of the Essonne department

References

External links

Media related to Vigneux-sur-Seine at Wikimedia Commons

Official website Archived 9 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine (in French)

Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1880, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Vigneux-sur-Seine, commune and Essonne can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as commune in Essonne, France. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q842037. VIAF identifies the subject as 150228825. The Library of Congress control number is n90697795. Authority coordinates are 48.700, 2.417. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1880 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from Vigneux-sur-Seine” 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.