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Poissy: collegiate church of Notre Dame
Collegiate church of Notre Dame, Poissy, France.
Poissy
France
Poissy, town, Yvelines département, Île-de-France région, north-central France, on the Seine River. It contains the 12th-century collegiate church of Notre Dame, restored by the architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, and the Savoye House (1929–31), a major work of the architect Le Corbusier. The town is the birthplace (1214) of Louis IX (St. Louis). Its former abbey was the scene of the Colloquy of Poissy (September 1561), at which French Catholics and Huguenots (Protestants) tried unsuccessfully to reconcile their differences. An automobile assembly plant is located in Poissy, and the manufacture of automobile components is important. Pop. (1999) 35,841; (2014 est.) 36,994.
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