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Flag of Herblay-sur-Seine - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 31 January 2025
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Herblay-sur-Seine (before 2018: Herblay; 31,818 inhabitants on 1,274 ha) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department.
The origins of Herblay are said to date back to the time of the Roman domination of Gaul. Its name appears written for the first time in a diploma of Pepin the Short in 754. The village was then closely linked to two ecclesiastical lordships: the Lordship of Saint Denis and that of the Chapter of Notre Dame de Paris.
Until the 19th century, Herblay's main resources were vine growing, agriculture and the exploitation of plaster and stone quarries. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, thanks to the arrival of the railway, the town developed strongly. Many bourgeois families settled in this countryside that had become so close to Paris. They commissioned beautiful villas from local architects imbued with the taste of the time for eclecticism and Art Nouveau. The city then developed particularly after the Second World War, and experienced strong demographic expansion from the 1960s.
The commune is crossed from north to south by the regional ecological corridor of the Maubuisson forest, linking the forest areas of Montmorency and Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The presence of the Seine to the south offers Herblay-sur-Seine a landscape of great beauty between Conflans-Sainte-Honorine and La Frette-sur-Seine, with the island of Herblay. The Val d'Oise department has chosen the island to carry out a project of renaturing to encourage the proliferation of endemic natural species.
In 1947, the municipality had entrusted the official heraldist Robert Louis with the study of new arms. The city had its coat of arms modified to include the Croix de Guerre with silver star, obtained in tribute to its inhabitants for their courage during WWII. The arms of Herblay are blazoned: Gules, with three winegrowers' billhooks Or handled Sable. The shield is supported by two gold vine branches symbolizing the old vine cultures.
Olivier Touzeau , 2 February 2023
Since 2018, the coat of arms is surmounted on the flag by the words "Herblay-sur-Seine" (instead of formerly "Ville d'Herblay"): photo (2023).
Olivier Touzeau , 2 February 2023
Former flag of Herblay
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Flag of Herblay before 2018 - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 31 January 2025
The flag before 2018 was white with the arms and the words "Ville d'Herblay" above: photo from this article (2014).
Olivier Touzeau, 31 January 2025