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St-Germain-en-Laye
The elegant town of St-Germain-en-Laye, encircled by forest and perched behind Le Nôtre's Grande Terrace overlooking the Seine, has lost little of its original cachet, despite the invasion of wealthy former Parisians who commute to work on the RER (the station is in the center of town and has frequent trains to and from Paris).