Louveciennes
Louveciennes | |
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 First snow in Louveciennes by Alfred Sisley, 1870 | |
.svg/120px-Blason_ville_fr_Louveciennes_(Yvelines).svg.png) Coat of arms | |
 Location of Louveciennes | |
  Louveciennes  Louveciennes | |
| Coordinates: 48°51′39″N 2°07′02″E / 48.8608°N 2.1172°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Yvelines |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Germain-en-Laye |
| Canton | Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt |
| Intercommunality | CA Saint Germain Boucles Seine |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2021–2026) | Marie-Dominique Parisot[1] |
Area 1 | 5.37 km2 (2.07 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 7,744 |
| • Density | 1,440/km2 (3,730/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 78350 /78430 |
| Elevation | 80–180 m (260–590 ft) (avg. 140 m or 460 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Louveciennes (French pronunciation: [luv(ə)sjɛn] ⓘ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, between Versailles and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and adjacent to Marly-le-Roi.
Population
[edit]| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 4,475 | — |
| 1975 | 7,488 | +7.63% |
| 1982 | 7,338 | −0.29% |
| 1990 | 7,446 | +0.18% |
| 1999 | 7,111 | −0.51% |
| 2007 | 7,247 | +0.24% |
| 2012 | 7,120 | −0.35% |
| 2017 | 7,099 | −0.06% |
| 2021 | 7,563 | +1.60% |
| Source: INSEE,[3][4] | ||
Sights
[edit]- Many châteaux from the 17th and 18th century (Château de Voisins, Château du Pont, Château du Parc, Château des Sources)
- The Pavillon des Eaux, built in 1684 by Louis XIV and given to Madame du Barry by Louis XV
- The Louveciennes Aqueduct of the Machine de Marly
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Château de Voisins -
Château du Pont
Culture
[edit]Louveciennes was frequented by impressionist painters in the 19th century; according to the official site, there are over 120 paintings by Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, and Monet depicting Louveciennes.
The composer Camille Saint-Saëns lived in Louveciennes from 1865 to 1870.
Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, the most famous female painter of the 18th century, is buried at the Cimetière de Louveciennes near her old home.
Anaïs Nin was a popular Cuban novelist born in Neuilly, an area in Paris and lived in Louveciennes from 1930 to 1936 at 2 bis, rue Montbuisson. Her career as an author started in this town.[5]
Marshal Joseph Joffre, the commander of the French Army at the start of the First World War, built a property, La Châtaigneraie, at Louveciennes, and is buried in its garden.[6] The tomb is not open to the public, and can only be seen at a ceremony on 11 November.
Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, died in Louveciennes 19 March 1987.[7]
Orchestra conductor Charles Munch resided in Louveciennes at Place Emile Dreux, in the village of Voisins during the last decade of his life (1958–68). A plaque to that effect has been placed on the residence.
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L'Aqueduc à Marly by Alfred Sisley, 1874 -
![Entrée du village de Voisins[8] by Camille Pissarro, 1872](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Camille_Pissarro_012.jpg/120px-Camille_Pissarro_012.jpg)
Entrée du village de Voisins[8] by Camille Pissarro, 1872 -
Road to Versailles at Louveciennes by Camille Pissarro, The Walters Art Museum.
History
[edit]Until 1964, Louveciennes belonged to the former Seine-et-Oise département.
NATO had barracks for SHAPE here from 1959–1967, and the American School of Paris was located nearby from 1959 to 1967.
Transport
[edit]Louveciennes is accessible by two Paris metro lines: LINE 17 Saint Nom la Bretèche - Le Chesnay - Versailles Rive Droite and LINE 17S: Maule - Le Chesnay - Versailles Rive Droite. Two bus routes to and from Paris which operate a night service are easily accessible. Lines 55-1 and LINE 55 -2 are used to go to Le Celle Saint Cloud, Bougival, and other western suburbs of Paris.
Economy
[edit]After SHAPE left France, the French government allocated the property to CII, which soon thereafter became part of CII Honeywell Bull. Groupe Bull still has offices in Louveciennes.
Twin towns
[edit]Louveciennes is twinned with:
Radlett, United Kingdom, 20 km (12 mi) north of London – since 1983
Meersburg, Germany, at the shores of Lake Constance – since 1991
Vama, Romania, 450 km (280 mi) north of Bucharest – since 2000
Notable people
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- Madame du Barry (1743–1793), the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France
- Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), a prominent portrait painter, official portraitist of Marie Antoinette[9]
- Armand Gagné (1771–1792), adopted son of Marie Antoinette
- Alfred Sisley (1839–1899), Impressionist painter
- Maréchal Joseph Joffre (1852–1931), general
- François Coty (1874–1934), perfumer, businessman, newspaper publisher, politician and patron of the arts
- Marcel Jean (1900–1993), Surrealist painter, writer, and sculptor
- Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), author
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 1 February 2022.
- ^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ Dossier Complet Commune de Louveciennes (78350), INSEE
- ^ "Petition to Preserve the House of Anais Nin".
- ^ à 15h53, Par Sébastien Birden Le 10 novembre 2017 (2017-11-10). "Le Maréchal Joffre, un habitant de Louveciennes presque comme les autres". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-05-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Leroy, Francis (2003). A Century of Nobel Prize Recipients: Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine (illustrated ed.). CRC Press. p. 141. ISBN 0-8247-0876-8. Extract of page 141
- ^ Le paysage est peint depuis l'actuelle avenue Saint-Martin, face à l'entrée du château de Voisins (derrière la charette). Il s'agit bien sûr du château actuel reconstruit en 1820.
- ^ May, Gita (2005). Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun : The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution. Yale University Press. p. 201. ISBN 9780300108729.
External links
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- Louveciennes official website (in French)
- American School alumni view of Louveciennes
- Church Saint Martin et Saint Blaise de Louveciennes
- Committee for partnership between Louveciennes and their twin towns (in French)
- Louveciennes 360 panoramas (in French)
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