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Puteaux () is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the heart of the Hauts-de-Seine department, from the Kilometre zero.
La Défense, Paris's business district hosting the tallest buildings in the metropolitan area, extends over the northern part of Puteaux and parts of the neighbouring communes Courbevoie and Nanterre. The inhabitants of Puteaux are called Putéoliens in French.
The name Putiauz is likely to have come from the old French Putel, meaning a "quagmire" or "swamp", a reference to the condition of the area before it was drained for agriculture. But according to another explanation, the name of Puteaux comes from the Latin word puteoli, the plural of puteolus, meaning "little wells" or "water holes". The spelling "Puteaux" is believed to have been first used in the sixteenth or seventeenth century.
Legend has it that Puteaux inspired the fable of the gadfly by Jean de La Fontaine.
During the repression of January and February 1894, the police conducted raids targeting the Anarchism living there, without much success.
The district Bas de Puteaux, located between the railway line and the Seine, is the oldest urbanized district. Notable in particular are the old church, the Théâtre des Hauts-de-Seine, the Hôtel de Ville (town hall) and a commercial shopping mall near the rues Jaurès, Eichenberger and Chantecoq. The Hôtel de Ville was built in 1934 and is a typical example of the architecture of this time.
The boulevard Richard Wallace is the Champs-Élysées of Puteaux.
The district Haut de Puteaux, located to the west of the railway line, is a more recent district, made of several residences and HLM (résidences des rosiers, Cartault, Marcellin Berthelot, Bernard Palissy) The Lorilleux residence, for example, was built on the site of the old ink manufacturing companies.
The district La Défense is located in the north, separated by the circular boulevard. The district, developed since the end of the 1950s, is one of the principal business districts in Europe. It mainly consists of , but some notable dwellings can be found within the district as well (Tour Défense 2000, résidence Boieldieu). Two thirds of the territory of La Défense is located within Puteaux, the remainder being divided between Courbevoie and Nanterre. Thus, the CNIT, the Grande Arche and the Quatre Temps shopping mall are in Puteaux.
The district Île de Puteaux, on which there are no dwellings besides some barges, shelters the sporting structures (tennis courts, football pitch, gymnasium, swimming pool) of Puteaux. A sporting complex, the Palais des sports, opened in July 2006.
in La Défense and in Puteaux at one time had the head offices of BEAmer,"[http://www.beamer-france.org/contact-en.html Contact us] ." Bureau d'Enquêtes sur les Événements de Mer. Retrieved on 11 August 2009. BEA-TT, and part of the head office of the Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Sea (a predecessor of the Ministry of Ecological Transition), while other parts of the ministry were at [[Tour Pascal A|Tour Pascal]] and the Grande Arche."[http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=914 Nous contacter] ." Minister of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Sea. Retrieved on 26 October 2009. , also in Puteaux and La Défense, once had the head office of BEA-TT, – "Tour Voltaire, 7ème étage, 92055 LA DEFENSE Cedex" and BEAmer."[http://www.beamer-france.org/contact-en.html Contact us] ." () Bureau d'Enquêtes sur les Événements de Mer. Retrieved on 16 February 2012. "MAIL ADDRESS ''BEA''mer Tour Voltaire 92055 LA DEFENSE CEDEX"
Puteaux has a long industrial past, in particular the car industry (De Dion-Bouton, but also Unic, Saurer and Daimler-Benz), aeronautics (Zodiac Group, Morane-Saulnier), the armament industry Atelier de Construction de Puteaux (APX), inks () and (Coty).
The administration of Puteaux by Ceccaldi-Raynaud is considered authoritarian by certain people (the opposition but sometimes also certain people of their own political camp in Hauts-de-Seine). This criticism regularly has echoes in the media (like the daily newspapers Libération, Le Monde, the edition of Hauts-de-Seine of Le Parisien and the news magazine L'Express, which made a coverstory of it at the end of 2005).
In September 2005, Charles Ceccaldi-Raynaud announced his intention to become mayor again, instead of his daughter. However, his daughter refused to resign. A lot of fixing was needed, in particular in the Municipal council (reported in a dispatch of the AFP of 21 November 2005).
Puteaux is also served by Esplanade de la Défense station on Paris Métro Line 1, in the business district of La Défense, as well as by La Défense station, a large interchange station on Paris Métro Line 1, on Paris RER A, on the Transilien La Défense suburban rail line, and on the Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare suburban rail line. Puteaux is also served by the T2 (tramway 2), in the La Défense-Issy-Val de Seine line.
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| rue Bernard-Palissy | rue Charles X |
| rue du bicentenaire | avenue du centenaire |
| quai de Dion-Bouton | quai National |
| rue Jean-Jaurès | rue de Paris |
| rue des Pavillons | rue des Coutures |
| Place de Stalingrad | place du marché |
| rue de Verdun | rue de Neuilly |
| rue Fernand Pelloutier | rue de Denain |
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