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| Noisiel | |
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| Information | |
| Country |  France |
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| Area | 4,35 km² |
| Population | 15 676 hab. () |
| Density | 3 603,68 inhab./km² |
| Postal code | 77186 |
| Spindle | UTC 01:00, UTC 02:00 |
| Location | |
 48 ° 51 ′ 17 ″ N 2 ° 37 ′ 44 ″ E | |
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Noisiel[1] is a city of 16,500 inhabitants (in 2000), located 25 km east of Paris. It is part of the new town of Marne Valley.
Understand
Although it appeared in the Middle Ages, Noisiel experienced a real boom in the 19th century thanks to the famous Menier chocolate factory. This is where the first chocolate bars will be made! Faced with their success, the Menier family developed not only the factory but the surrounding working-class neighborhoods, with luxuries rare for the time: bathrooms, gardens ... This is how the old Noisiel, whom we still know today, was born. 'hui. The 1950s saw the bankruptcy of the factory and the end of an era for the city. But from 1975, the city experienced a renaissance by joining the project of new towns of Marne-La-Vallée. The RER station as well as many neighborhoods are emerging thanks to innovative urban planning projects.
To go
By car
- A4 motorway, Noisiel exit
- Ile-de-France (N104)
By train
- RER A station Noisiel
- Vaires-Torcy station (suburban SNCF line), then bus 211
See
Noisiel is rarely considered a holiday resort in itself, but it is a very practical base for visiting Paris or the Euro Disney park (indeed the hotels are much cheaper there). In addition, some places are really nice to walk or visit.
The park
At the end of the Allée des Bois (on the left when exiting by the main entrance of the RER), you will find the Parc de Noisiel which once housed a castle. You can walk through large meadows or small woods, or quietly follow the course of the Marne by bike or on foot.
The Bush Farm
Former farm of the Menier factory, You are in the unique testimony of the agricultural history of Noisiel Linked to the history of Menier, the farm of the bush is significant of the global project of industrial chocolate makers: the agricultural sector is everything as important as the social and institutional sectors (workers' housing estate) and the productive sector (factory) .Construction, initiated in the early 1885s, was the culmination of a decade marked by the restructuring of the 1 500 Ha of which the Meniers had become owners. The concern to manage in a coherent way a whole grouping together the lands of five farms led to the establishment of a system in which the bush farm is the predominant element.
the Ferme du buisson has been rehabilitated into a cultural center. You can enjoy the theater or the cinema installed in the old barn (don't forget to notice the entrance to the cinema: an old aviary). You can also visit the museum of modern art or relax in the restaurant during a musical evening. With a bit of luck, you might have the right to a special weekend full of shows or a curious night (not to be missed).
The Menier factory
The Noisiel factory became the productive heart of an agro-food empire. On the site of a medieval mill Jules Saulnier built between 1865 and 1872 the first building with a metal structure. In the field of chocolate Menier is the only example of total integration. Multinational controlling the cocoa chain. The third generation, Gaston and Henri Menier complete the family work; railway, cooling, quays. The exhibitions reward the Noisiel factory as well as the school group and the workers' city. Menier invents the advertising concept "to avoid counterfeits" written on the walls the little girl Bouisset, the Noisiel factory is consecrated, the first chocolate factory in the world in 1893. The Meniers expand their range: croquettes, Bagatelles, Lugano, Jolta, Rialta, Marna, Malakoff, fondant.
The factory of the chocolate company Menier, built in the 19th century, was converted into a head office by the Nestlé France group in 1996.
The workers' city
The project, the construction of the city are specific to Émile Justin but its management, its duration will fall to his sons. The city had to outlive its founder for at least two reasons. First, its efficiency is undeniable in terms of reproduction. of work force, social peace, and more generally in taking account of employers' interests ... Noisiel becomes a full-fledged employer city, directed, controlled and managed as such. We fully subscribe to this definition of the "paternalistic system" "given by Gérard Noiriel, it is:" the structured set of material, ideological and political means used by employers to renew the workforce necessary for the functioning of a determined work process ". In Noisiel, the work process is characterized by the use of a large female workforce and does not require any particular qualification ... Management must also deal with one of the constitutive principles of the city: the absence of independent middle classes of Menier. Noisiel is a hotbed of social confrontation: employers against the working class.Moreover, any social advancement is practically impossible there because of the absence of highly qualified positions, except those of mechanics and a few foreman positions generally renewed from father. as a son or from mother to daughter. Finally, everything is rigorously "Menier", from the town hall to the factory, from the accommodation to the public bench. The possible dissatisfaction of the worker-tenants, in any field whatsoever, can only find one responsible: the Menier family.
Housing
- The Mill Site 225, place Émile Menier,
33 1 60 37 04 64, fax : 33 1 60 17 97 25 - Fisherman's Hotel 226, place Émile Menier, 33 1 60 05 29 97, fax : 33 1 60 17 00 24
- Hotel of the two parks Ferret alley, 33 1 60 37 08 08
- Hipotel Paris Marne-la-Vallée 3, place Gaston-Defferre, 33 1 60 37 09 25
