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Flag of Neuilly-Plaisance - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 03 November 2025
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Neuilly-Plaisance (21,914 inhabitants, 342 ha) is a commune in Seine-Saint-Denis, part of the eastern suburbs of Paris.
Before the French Revolution, the current site of the town was occupied by the park of the Château d'Avron (located in Rosny-sous-Bois). The town of Neuilly-Plaisance was created in 1892 from the territory of Neuilly-sur-Marne.
Neuilly-Plaisance is the town where Abbé Pierre established one of his first shelters (the Pomponnette encampment), and where he purchased the first house for what would become the Emmaus movement. The Emmaus movement developed rapidly, in France and internationally, particularly following Abbé Pierre's appeal in the winter of 1954 against housing problems, which brought it to prominence.
Olivier Touzeau, 03 November 2025
The arms of Neuilly-Plaisance are blazoned :
Azure, an eagle displayed argent maintaining in dextre talon a laurel
branch palewise or, and on an inescutcheon overall argent, a fess wavy
azure and in chief a Latin cross gules between 2 crescents inverted
vert.
The base arms are those of Le Ragois de Bretonvilliers, the
superimposed ones of Foulques de Neuilly.
The flag is a banner of arms, blue with the content of the shield: photo (2025), photo (2025), photo (2024), photo (2023), photo (2018), photo (2008).
Olivier Touzeau, 03 November 2025