[1] Built in Suresnes, in the Hauts-de-Seine department, this garden city was created by architects Alexandre Maistrasse, Julien Quoniam and Félix Dumail, on the initiative of mayor Henri Sellier, mainly from 1921 and 1939[2] and after the war until 1956.

[4] The chosen site was a 30 hectare[5] area on an agricultural plateau located on the edge of the Rueil-Malmaison commune.

[6] Among the collaborators of Henri Sellier who participated in the creation of the garden city, there were two notable women: town planner Berthe Leymarie (born in 1876), the then director of the HBM and a 'visiting nurse' who defended a thesis on the subject in 1923 and worked particularly in the social aspect of these sets, as well as Georgette Le Campion, commonly called Géo (born in 1880), graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and professor of drawing in the schools of the garden city of Suresnes, who produced for them several educational frescoes emphasizing hygiene and civic education.

[1] The choice of street names for the garden city was made according to the following perspective, as expressed by the mayor to the municipal council of March 22, 1932: “The municipality wanted to pay homage to the thinkers and statesmen of all religions and all nationalities who, over the centuries until our tragic time, have held out to humanity the torch which should guide it towards final peace and the brotherhood of people."

The streets are named after the Duke of Sully, Hugo Grotius, William Penn, the abbé de Saint-Pierre, Romain Rolland, Jean Jaurès, Léon Bourgeois, Paul Henri Balleut, Former US President Woodrow Wilson, Frank Billings Kellogg, Louis Loucheur (many Suresnois (residents of Suresnes) benefiting from his law to build pavilions) and Gustav Stresemann.

The building is now converted into a Center for Assistance through Work, a medico-social establishment for the professional integration of disabled people.

[9] Squares planted with trees and carpeted with lawns are located in the center of the main islets of the garden city.

The rehabilitation undertaken between 1985 and 1996, at the initiative of Christian Dupuy, mayor of Suresnes since 1983, made it possible to bring the apartments up to current standards and to modernize a certain number of public facilities: the Locarno residence (built in 1932, named after the Locarno agreements) for the elderly, the wash-houses, baths and showers, converted into a center for help through work, the hotel for singles transformed into a residence for young people aged 18 to 30, the theatre (Albert-Thomas center, renamed Jean-Vilar theatre), schools, Léon Bourgeois square and Place de la Paix.

Its yellow brick architecture is embellished with ironwork, ceramics and magnificent mosaics on the facade, including a monumental clock face.

Numerous games and educational devices accompany schooling: from weaving looms and merry-go-rounds for the little ones to household arts and woodworking and metal workshops to prepare adolescents for jobs.

Faced with the exponential increase in the population, this second school was built to accommodate 15 classes of girls and as many boys while allowing them to have drawing rooms, workshops but also a gymnasium and a swimming pool.

Its equipment for toddlers is remarkable: merry-go-round, slide, rocking horses, pools allow everyone to learn while having fun.