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Flag of Puiseux-Pontoise - Image by Arnaud Leroy, 14 January 2002
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The municipality of Puiseux-Pontoise (583 inhabitants in 2019; 564 ha) is located 30 km north-west of Paris.
Ivan Sache, 14 January 2022
The flag of Puiseux-Pontoise is white with the municipal logo.
Ivan Sache, 14 January 2002
The municipal logo features the dovecote of the farm owned by the Thomassin family since 1764.
In the 1960, the Thomassin farm, then covering 650 hectares, produced grain, potatoes, sugar beets, and reared cattle. The farm and the distillery established in 1856 employed up to 100 workers, that is, half of the village's population.
The urbanization of the area and the incorporation of Puiseux-Pontoise to the "ville nouvelle" of Cergy-Pontoise resulted in the expropriation of 90% of the farm's arable area. Marc Darbonne, founder in Milly-la-Forêt of the family company Darégal, now the world's leader of the production of deep-frozen aromatic plants, suggested Jean Thomassin to establish France's first pick-and-go farm, based on the English model. The new farm was inaugurated in 1976, then composed of a 4-ha strawberry plot. Cueillette de Cergy [corporate website] welcomes now 150,000 customers per year, selling 170 tons apples, 100 tons potatoes, 20 tons strawberries, etc. grown on 40 hectares. [source: intermunicipal website, 26 June 2015]
Jean Thomassin (d. 2017) served as the mayor of Puiseux-Pontoise from 1971 to 2001; he was succeeded by his son, Thierry Thomassin, who was re-elected in 2020 for the fourth time.
Ivan Sache, 3 September 2022