PUTEAUX

town, Hauts-de-Seine dpartement, Paris rgion. It is a northwestern residential and industrial suburb of Paris and is situated on the west bank of the Seine River opposite the suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine and the Bois de Boulogne, which separate it from the capital. The town is connected to Paris by a regional express railway running from the Rond Point de la Dfense. Modern high-rise buildings have been built in Puteaux along the Dfense Quartier and the Avenue du Gnral-de-Gaulle (a prolongation of the Champs-lyses and the Avenue de la Grande Arme). The monumental Palais des Expositions, built of steel, concrete, and glass in 195759, has about three times as much space as the old Grand Palais in the Champs-lyses in Paris itself. Puteaux's industries include automobile construction, printing, and the manufacture of perfumes, cosmetics, and rubber products. Pop. (1990) 42,917.