Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine
Information
Number	92
Region	Île-de-France
Prefecture	Nanterre
Subprefecture	Antony Boulogne-Billancourt
Population - Total (1999) - Density	Ranked 6th 1,428,881 8,119 /km²
Area	176 km²
Arrondissements	3
Cantons	45
Communes	36
President of the general council
Location

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

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Administration

History

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

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 département's 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).

Geography

Hauts-de-Seine and two other small départements, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne, form a ring around Paris, known as the petite couronne.