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2 Rue Gabriel Péri, 92700 Colombes, France
Hauts-de-Seine
Île-de-France
Archaeological excavations in Colombes. The great estates of the Ancien Régime and their illustrious owners. Since the Ancien Régime, Colombes has been the theatre where exceptional destinies are played out: Queen Henrietta of England (1609-1669), widow of Charles I of England decapitated by the Cromwell revolution, comes to spend her last years there. On the island of Moulin Joly, Claude-Henri Watelet develops one of the first picturesque gardens in the Age of Enlightenment, to be discovered in a model as well as the village of Colombes in 1780\. Paintings from the 17th and 19th centuries. Evolution of urban planning (arrival of the railway, the subdivision, the Habitations à Bon Marché...). The industrial development of Colombes in the 19th and 20th centuries is marked by illustrious names: perfumes (Guerlain, Dorin, Sauzé), automobiles (Facel-Vega, Hispano-Suiza), aeronautics (Gnome et Rhône, Amiot), telephony (Ericsson), Kleber... The sporting past of Colombes: the Yves du Manoir s
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