Arcueil
| Arcueil | ||
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Maison des Gardes, part of the Guise Castle | ||
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  Arcueil | ||
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Location within Île-de-France region  Arcueil | ||
| Coordinates: 48°48′27″N 2°20′10″E / 48.8075°N 2.3361°ECoordinates: 48°48′27″N 2°20′10″E / 48.8075°N 2.3361°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Val-de-Marne | |
| Arrondissement | L'Haÿ-les-Roses | |
| Intercommunality | Val de Bièvre | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Daniel Breuiller | |
| Area1 | 2.33 km2 (0.90 sq mi) | |
| Population (2009)2 | 19,548 | |
| • Density | 8,400/km2 (22,000/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 94003 / | |
| Elevation | 42–105 m (138–344 ft) | |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | ||
Arcueil [aʁkœj] is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 5.3 km (3.3 mi) from the center of Paris.
Name
The name Arcueil was recorded for the first time in 1119 as Arcoloï, and later in the 12th century as Arcoïalum, meaning "place of the arches" (Latin radical arcus, "arch", and Celtic suffix -ialo, "clearing, glade", "place of"), in reference to the Roman aqueduct carrying water to the Roman city of Lutetia (modern Paris). Still standing, the arches of the Roman aqueduct are still visible since the Middle Ages, crossing the Bièvre River valley near Arcueil.
History
The commune of Arcueil was officially renamed Arcueil-Cachan in 1894, after the hamlet of Cachan located within the commune. On 26 December 1922, Cachan seceded from the commune of Arcueil-Cachan and became a commune in its own right. The reduced commune of Arcueil-Cachan was renamed simply Arcueil.
Population
| Historical population | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1793 | 1,338 | — |
| 1800 | 1,168 | −12.7% |
| 1806 | 1,200 | +2.7% |
| 1821 | 1,439 | +19.9% |
| 1831 | 1,809 | +25.7% |
| 1836 | 1,746 | −3.5% |
| 1841 | 1,734 | −0.7% |
| 1846 | 2,701 | +55.8% |
| 1851 | 3,071 | +13.7% |
| 1856 | 2,957 | −3.7% |
| 1861 | 4,078 | +37.9% |
| 1866 | 5,024 | +23.2% |
| 1872 | 5,258 | +4.7% |
| 1876 | 5,299 | +0.8% |
| 1881 | 6,067 | +14.5% |
| 1886 | 6,465 | +6.6% |
| 1891 | 6,088 | −5.8% |
| 1896 | 7,064 | +16.0% |
| 1901 | 8,425 | +19.3% |
| 1906 | 9,237 | +9.6% |
| 1911 | 11,319 | +22.5% |
| 1921 | 14,966 | +32.2% |
| 1926 | 12,559 | −16.1% |
| 1931 | 16,200 | +29.0% |
| 1936 | 16,590 | +2.4% |
| 1946 | 16,340 | −1.5% |
| 1954 | 18,067 | +10.6% |
| 1962 | 20,224 | +11.9% |
| 1968 | 21,877 | +8.2% |
| 1975 | 20,330 | −7.1% |
| 1982 | 20,064 | −1.3% |
| 1990 | 20,334 | +1.3% |
| 1999 | 18,061 | −11.2% |
| 2006 | 19,129 | +5.9% |
| 2009 | 19,548 | +2.2% |
Economy
Orange France, a subsidiary of France Télécom, has its headquarters in Arcueil.[1]
Transport
Arcueil is served by two stations on Paris RER line B: Laplace and Arcueil – Cachan.
Education
Primary schools:[2]
- Five preschools: Henri Barbusse, Danielle Casanova, Jules Ferry, Olympe de Gouges, and Pauline Kergomard
- Five elementary schools: Henri Barbusse, Jules Ferry, Olympe de Gouges, Aimé Césaire, and Jean Macé
There is one junior high school, Collège Dulcie September.[3]
Residents are served by the Lycée intercommunal Darius-Milhaud in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre.[4]
Personalities
- Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532–1589), member of the "Pléiade".[5]
- Adrienne Bolland (1895–1975), first woman to fly an airplane across the Andes, was born in Arcueil.
- Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822), chemist.
- Michel Bulteau, writer and cult film maker, is a native of Arcueil.
- Pierre and Marie Curie installed at Arcueil an annex of the Institut du Radium for the chemical treatment of radioactive elements.[6]
- Jean-Paul Gaultier, fashion designer.
- Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), mathematician, astronomer and physicist.
- Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) called Douanier Rousseau, notable naive painter.
- The Marquis de Sade, writer and libertine.
- Erik Satie, composer, lived in Arcueil from 1898 to 1925.[7]
- Dulcie September, of the African National Congress, when living in France lodged in Arcueil; an Arcueil high school is named after her.[8]
See also
- Society of Arcueil
- Communes of the Val-de-Marne department
- fr:Aqueducs d'Arcueil et de Cachan French Wiki article on the history of the 3 aqueducts
References
- ↑ "Orange France." Businessweek. Retrieved on 6 October 2009.
- ↑ "Les écoles à Arcueil." Arcueil. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.
- ↑ Home. Collège Dulcie September. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.
- ↑ "Les lycéens du boycottent les cours Kremlin-Bicêtre" (Archive). Le Parisien. 24 September 2004. "Pour les soutenir dans leur nouveau combat, les élus en charge de la jeunesse des quatre villes dont dépend le lycée - Gentilly, Villejuif, Arcueil et Le Kremlin-Bicêtre - avaient fait le déplacement."
- ↑ Arcueil, rue d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. Arcueil: Centre Culturel Communal Erik Satie, 2006 ISBN 2-9526850-0-2
- ↑ http://www.curie.fr/fondation/musee/marie-pierre-curie.cfm/lang/_gb.htm
- ↑ http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_routines/2009/01/erik-satie.html Erik Satie's daily routine
- ↑ http://www.westerncape.gov.za/eng/pubs/news/2006/jun/137558 Cape of Good Hope Gateway article
- INSEE
- Mayors of Essonne Association (French)
External links
- Official website (French)
- Arcueil Business Theatre (French)
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