Chaville
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| The town hall of Chaville The town hall of Chaville | |
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Coat of arms of Chaville Coat of arms | |
| Location (in red) within Paris inner suburbs Location (in red) within Paris inner suburbs | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Hauts-de-Seine |
| Arrondissement | Boulogne-Billancourt |
| Canton | Meudon |
| Intercommunality | Grand Paris; EPT Grand Paris Seine Ouest |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Jean-Jacques Guillet[1] |
Area 1 | 3.55 km2 (1.37 sq mi) |
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| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 92022 /92370 |
| Elevation | 63–173 m (207–568 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Chaville (French pronunciation: [ʃavil] Audio file "Fr-Paris--Chaville.ogg" not found) is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department and Île-de-France region of north-central France. It lies some 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) from the centre of Paris in the south-western suburbs of the French capital.
Geography
[edit | edit source]Chaville is bordered by the following communes (clockwise from the north):
Roughly 44% of the territory of the commune, situated between the forest of Meudon to the south-east and the forest of Fausses-Reposes to the north-west, is wooded.
History
[edit | edit source]Chaville was founded in the 9th century by Inchadus, Bishop of Paris. The earliest recorded form of the name is Inchadi villa.
Population
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Transport
[edit | edit source]Chaville is located on route D910 between Paris and Versailles. It is served by three railway stations and one bus line:
- Chaville Rive Droite station, on the Transilien suburban rail line from Paris-Saint-Lazare to Versailles Rive Droite
- Chaville Rive Gauche station, on the Transilien suburban rail line from Paris-Montparnasse to Rambouillet
- Chaville–Vélizy station on Paris RER line C
- RATP Bus line 171
Education
[edit | edit source]As of 2016[update] there are five preschools (maternelles) with 730 students total: Les Iris, Les Jacinthes, Le Muguet, Les Myosotis, and Les Pâquerettes[4] As of the same year there are three elementary schools with 1,000 students total: Anatole France, Paul Bert, and Ferdinand Buisson.[5] There is one junior high school, Collège Jean Moulin de Chaville.[6]
It is served by the public high school/sixth-form college Lycée Jean Pierre Vernant in Sèvres.[7][8]
Twin towns
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Alsfeld, Hesse, Germany
Barnet, London, England, United Kingdom
Settimo Torinese, Piedmont, Italy
Thanh Hóa, Vietnam
Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, United States
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Chaville, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ "Écoles maternelles." Chaville. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
- ^ "Écoles élémentaires." Chaville. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
- ^ "Collège." Chaville. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
- ^ Home page. Lycée Jean Pierre Vernant. Retrieved on September 7, 2016. [...]qui relèvent de la zone de desserte du lycée ( communes de Sèvres, Ville d’Avray, Chaville, Saint -Cloud) [...]
- ^ "Lycée." Chaville. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Chaville website (in French)
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