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Rocquencourt, Yvelines

Field	Value
name	Rocquencourt
image	Rocquencourt 78 Mairie.JPG
caption	Town hall
image coat of arms	Blason ville fr Rocquencourt (Yvelines).svg
arrondissement	Versailles
canton	Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt
INSEE	78524
postal code	78150
commune	Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt
coordinates
elevation m	150
elevation min m	114
elevation max m	179
area km2	2.78
population	3740
population date	2022
population footnotes

|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Rocquencourt (Yvelines).svg

Rocquencourt () is a former commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt. It is about 4 km north-west of Versailles and 19 km west of center Paris.

The commune is mainly known as the location of a research unit of INRIA (in the Domaine de Voluceau, formerly Camp Voluceau, used by SHAPE) as well as a freeway exchange known as the Rocquencourt Triangle (triangle de Rocquencourt, junction of the A12 autoroute and the A13 autoroute), which is often mentioned in traffic news.

History

On 1 July 1815, Napoleon's Grande Armée fought its last battle in Rocquencourt and Le Chesnay. After the defeat of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, Grouchy's army withdrew to Paris via Namur and Dinant, reaching Paris on 29 June, a few days before the Prussians, who camped at Versailles.

While negotiating the final armistice, Exelmans was ordered to attack the Prussians at Versailles on 1 July 1815. Under attack the Prussians retreated from Versailles and headed east, but were blocked by the French at Vélizy. They failed to re-enter Versailles and headed for Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Their first squadron came under fire at the entrance of Rocquencourt and attempted to escape through the fields. They were forced into a small, narrow street in Le Chesnay and killed or captured. However, the main body of the Prussian army succeeded in reaching Saint-Germain. (From Presentation of Rocquencourt.)

Points of interest

Arboretum de Chèvreloup

References

(December 2024). "Populations de référence 2022". [[Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques.
[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2018/11/29/TERB1833248A/jo/texte Arrêté préfectoral] 29 November 2018 {{in lang. fr

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