Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine is a département in France. It is part of the Île-de-France région. It is small and densely populated and contains the modern office, theatre, and shopping complex known as La Défense with its modern Grande Arche.

History

Hauts-de-Seine was largely part of the Seine département, and to a lesser extent of the Seine-et-Oise département, until 1968.

Related Topics:
Seine - Seine-et-Oise - 1968

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In the 1990s and early 2000s the Hauts-de-Seine got national attention for a corruption scandal pertaining to the misuse of public funds of the départements housing projects, involving former minister and former president of the conseil général of the Hauts-de-Seine Charles Pasqua and other personalities of the RPR party. (see corruption scandals in the Paris region).

Related Topics:
1990s - 2000s - Corruption - Housing project - President of the ''conseil général'' - Charles Pasqua - RPR - Corruption scandals in the Paris region

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