The largest condominium in Europe includes 7,500 homes for nearly 20,000 inhabitants (the Parlysians) and extends over the new municipality of Chesnay-Rocquencourt.

In The Consumer Society (1970), the sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard starts from the shopping center to define the "home of consumption as the total organization of everyday life.

This new mall notably accommodates La Grande Récré [fr] over 1,800 m2 and Maisons du Monde over 1,000 m2.

The initial name of this real estate operation (1967) was indeed "Paris 2" but had to be changed in the face of opposition from elected Parisians[10] (the comic book Asterix titled The Mansions of the Gods, published shortly after in 1971, directly satirizes this controversy: Julius Caesar refuses to allow a new building complex to be called "Rome II").

[11] The Parly 2 condominium comprises 36 residential homes which include 278 buildings representing around seven thousand apartments.

[1] This real estate complex also includes the following: The buildings are surrounded by landscaped gardens, with paths called « square.

The Parly 2 residences had lent their setting to many films, including Creezy (1974), with Alain Delon, When I Was a Singer (2006) with Gérard Depardieu or Harry, He's Here to Help (2000) by Dominik Moll.