Hauts de Seine

Hauts de Seine is a depertment of France. It is a part of the Metropole du Grand Paris and of the lle-de-France area and covers the western internal suburbs of Paris. It is small and densely populated and consists of the cutting edge workplace, theatre and buying complex known as La Defense. The Hauts de Seine branch becomes created in 1968, from components of the former departments of Seine and Seine-et-Oise. Its creation pondered the implementation of a law exceeded in 1964 and Nanterre had already been selected because the prefecture for the brand new department early in 1965.

In the 1990 and early 2000s, Hauts de Seine received country wide attention because the end result of a corruption scandal concerning the misuse of public funds furnished for the departments housing initiatives. Implicated have been former minister and former president of the Hauts de Seine General Council, Charles Pasqua, and different personalities of the RPR party. Hauts de Seine is France wealthiest department and one in every of Europe richest areas.