{"id":274,"date":"2017-10-18T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.issy-tourisme-international.com\/?page_id=274"},"modified":"2018-11-09T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T13:54:19","slug":"history-of-the-town","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.issy-tourisme-international.com\/en\/discover\/history-of-the-town\/","title":{"rendered":"The town\u2019s history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issy-les-Moulineaux, a municipality of Hauts-de-Seine, is known the world over as THE cybercity.\u00a0 After all, wasn\u2019t it the town that was awarded the title of Pioneer City of the citizen\u2019s internet?<\/p>\n<p>But this isn\u2019t all\u2026\u00a0 Issy-les-Moulineaux\u2019s history goes back 9000 years when prehistoric man started living on the Issy plain, succeeded by the monks of Saint-Germain in the Middle Ages, reaching its height in the 17th century with great members of the Court such as the famous \u00ab\u00a0reine Margot\u00a0\u00bb, the wife of King Henry IV.\u00a0 The town was also the scene of terrible battles:\u00a0 in 1815, on the fall of Napoleon; in May 1817, during the Paris Commune; in 1940 with the German bombardments\u2026 Flourishing industries were to be found there up until the middle of the 20th century including the G\u00e9velot munitions factory, the tobacco company La Manufacture des tabacs, the Ripolin paint manufacturer\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The town is ideally situated on the banks of the Seine, in a rural setting, and thus attracted artists such as the painter Henri Matisse, the sculptor Auguste Rodin and the photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue, who was fascinated by\u2026 the aeroplanes which used to take off from the Issy airfield, which was, let us not forget, the cradle of aviation\u00a0!<\/p>\n<p>There are many parks in the town, conducive to day dreaming, reading and to discovering vines, beehives and even a horse riding school!\u00a0 Issy-les-Moulineaux has much to offer tourists, so don\u2019t keep it waiting!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.issy.com\/ma-ville\/histoire\">http:\/\/www.issy.com\/ma-ville\/histoire<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.historim.fr\/\">www.historim.fr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issy-les-Moulineaux, a municipality of Hauts-de-Seine, is known the world over as THE cybercity.\u00a0 After all, wasn\u2019t it the town that was awarded the title of Pioneer City of the citizen\u2019s internet? But this isn\u2019t all\u2026\u00a0 Issy-les-Moulineaux\u2019s history goes back 9000 years when prehistoric man started living on the Issy plain, succeeded by the monks of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":551,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"modele-histoire.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-274","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issy-tourisme-international.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issy-tourisme-international.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issy-tourisme-international.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issy-tourisme-international.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issy-tourisme-international.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.issy-tourisme-international.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issy-tourisme-international.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issy-tourisme-international.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}