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Vaujours (Municipality, Seine-Saint-Denis, France)

Flag of Vaujours - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 07 November 2025

Presentation of Vaujours
Flag of Vaujours

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Presentation of Vaujours

Vaujours (7,743 inhabitants, 378 ha) is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, in the département of Seine-Saint-Denis.

Around 1100, this land belonged to Étienne de Senlis, who later donated it to the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris (a property of the City of Paris until 1792). At the end of the 18th century, the Church of Saint-Nicolas was built. In the 19th century, the château was converted into an orphanage. In 1844, the Fénelon Horticultural High School was established there, restoring some prestige to the 18th-century château. The château was
surrounded by a landscaped park, which included a 16th-century tithe barn.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, Vaujours was a village of straw merchants (traders in straw, fodder, and bedding). Vaujours was a strategic point during the Battle of the Marne in September 1914. The town developed the following economic sectors:
- viticulture and fruit growing until the end of the 19th century;
- Plaster quarries, one of the world's leading producers;
- Nuclear research center in the former fort of Vaujours.

Olivier Touzeau, 07 November 2025

Flag of Vaujours

The arms of Vaujours are blazoned:
Azure a bend battled counter-embattled Or, the chief Azure an escarbuncle fleury Or
The shield, surmounted by a mural crown with three crenellated gold towers, is supported at the base by a gold thunderbolt enflamed gules, from which spring three marigold flowers, stemmed and leaved.

The land of Vaujours belonged to the Abbey of Saint-Victor of Paris, whose arms (the carbuncle) are reproduced in chief of the shield; later, these lands became the property of the Scarron family (counselor to the parliament in the 17th century), whose arms, a bend embattled and counter-embattled, appear on the lower part of the coat of arms.
The Château de Vaujours (now the Fénelon school) became the property of the de Maistre family, whose arms featured three marigold flowers, which are used for the external ornament.
Finally, the Sevran gunpowder factory is evoked by lightning, a symbol worn by the officers of the Gunpowder Factory.

The flag is white with the coat of arms, and the name of the commune in the fly, displayed vertically: photo (2024), photo (2022), photo (2008).

Olivier Touzeau, 07 November 2025