Louveciennes

Louveciennes
First snow in Louveciennes by Alfred Sisley, 1870
Coat of arms
Louveciennes
Location within Île-de-France region  Louveciennes
Coordinates: 48°51′39″N 2°07′02″E / 48.8608°N 2.1172°ECoordinates: 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	Marly-le-Roi
Intercommunality	Coteaux de Seine
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	André Vanhollebeke
Area^1	5.37 km^2 (2.07 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	7,404
• Density	1,400/km^2 (3,600/sq mi)
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. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Louveciennes 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.

Sights

• Many castles from the 17th and 18th century (Chateau des Voisins, Chateau de Madame Du Barry, Chateau du Pont, Chateau du Parc, Chateau des Sources).
• The Château de Louveciennes, built in 1700 by Louis XIV and given to Madame du Barry by Louis XV.
• The Louveciennes Aqueduct of the Machine de Marly

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  Chateau of Voisins

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  Chateau of Pont

Culture

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, died in Louveciennes on 30 March 1842.

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. The start of her career as an author started in this very special town.^[1]

Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, died in Louveciennes 19 March 1987.^[2]

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

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  Entrée du village de Voisins^[1] by Camille Pissarro, 1872

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  Road to Versailles at Louveciennes by Camille Pissarro, The Walters Art Museum.

1. ^ 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.

History

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.

Economy

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

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 Bucarest - since 2000

See also

• Communes of the Yvelines department

References

• INSEE

1. http://www.anaisnin.com/archives/petition.html
2. 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

External links

• 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 (French)