Alexandre Joly is a French pyrotechnics businessman and politician born on 24 December 1948 in Villiers-sur-Marne, the Mayor of Houilles from 1995 to 2020 and the vice-president of Yvelines departmental council.
Born on December 24, 1948, in Villiers-sur-Marne, Alexandre Joly holds a brevet de technicien supérieur (BTS) technician certificate in business organization.
[1] He created, on May 18, 1981, in Houilles, a company specializing in pyrotechnics and the design and installation of shows, A. Joly Pyrotech Prod Tranis,[2][3] which was the first in France, according to its creator, to have developed intermittently flaming Bengal lights.
[9][10] The taking of the municipal council by an entrepreneur claiming himself to be nonpartisan, followed by his long-term territorial anchoring, are the result of a sociological evolution of an Île-de-France area located between the towns of Bezons, Sartrouville and Nanterre and belonging historically to the Ceinture rouge (Red Belt) around Paris.
[21][22] Since 2004, Alexandre Joly has initiated a memorial policy around Victor Schœlcher, who wrote the decree of 27 April 1848 abolishing slavery in France's colonies and lived and died in Houilles.
"[26] In the 2014 municipal elections, the socialist opposition denounced the lack of transparency of the name "sans étiquette" (nonpartisan) put forward by Alexandre Joly while he had the dual support of the UMP and the UDI.