Clichy

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Clichy
Clichy Coat of Arms
Clichy (France)
Clichy
region Île-de-France
Department Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement Nanterre
Canton Clichy (main town)
Community association Métropole du Grand Paris and
Boucle Nord de Seine
Coordinates 48 ° 54 '  N , 2 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 54 '  N , 2 ° 18'  E
height 23-35 m
surface 3.08 km 2
Residents 61,070 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 19,828 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 92110
INSEE code 92024
Website www.ville-clichy.fr
Town hall around 1927

Clichy , also Clichy-la-Garenne called, is a French municipality with 61,070 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Hauts-de-Seine in the region of Ile-de-France immediately north-west of Paris . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Nanterre and is the capital of the canton of Clichy . The inhabitants are called clichois .

The city should not be confused with the eastern Parisian suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois .

geography

The suburb is bordered by Levallois-Perret in the southwest , Paris in the southeast, Saint-Ouen in the northeast and the Seine in the northwest . Clichy is connected to Asnières-sur-Seine via the Pont de Clichy .

history

Clichy was the residence of the Merovingians and an estate of the Frankish king Dagobert I , the Latin name was Clippiacum . The area around Clichy was used as a royal hunting ground. In the Middle Ages, the municipality of Clichy extended to the then city wall of Paris (at the Porte Saint-Honoré at the Louvre ) and included Monceau , Courcelles , Les Ternes , Levallois , Le Roule and Ville L'Evêque . In 1788 Clichy then lost by order of King Louis XVI. a third of his territory when he had a new outer ring constructed for Paris. Today's Place de Clichy was built on the new border with Clichy . After a crystal glass factory ( Cristallerie de Clichy ) had already set up in Clichy in 1846 , industrialization and urbanization of the municipality began around 1910 ; in the interwar period , a large Citroën car plant was built here , which has since closed.

Until the territorial reform of the greater Paris area in 1968, the city belonged to the Seine department .

Politically, since 1945, Clichy has been ruled mainly by mayors from the political left , until 1947 by Jean Mercier of the Parti communiste français , then until 2015 by representatives of the Parti socialiste . Rémi Muzeau has been the incumbent mayor of Les Républicains (formerly UMP) since June 2015 .

Architectural monuments

See: List of Monuments historiques in Clichy

economy

The headquarters of the cosmetics group L'Oréal and the BIC Group are located in Clichy .

Others

The writers Henry Miller and Alfred Perlès shared an apartment in Clichy from 1932 to 1934. Miller described this period in his 1940, partly autobiographical novel Stille Tage in Clichy .

Town twinning

Personalities

Sons and daughters

Associated with Clichy

  • View over the Seine to Clichy, on the right the bridge Pont d'Asnières

  • The Pont de Gennevilliers bridge over the Seine

  • Clichy-Levallois train station

  • The Saint-Médard church

  • Passage Berthier

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes des Hauts-de-Seine. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Charenton-le-Pont 1993, ISBN 2-908958-95-3 , pp. 150-161.

Web links

Commons : Clichy  - collection of images, videos and audio files