Maisons-Alfort

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Maisons-Alfort
Maisons-Alfort coat of arms
Maisons-Alfort (France)
Maisons-Alfort
region Île-de-France
Department Val-de-Marne
Arrondissement Nogent-sur-Marne
Canton Maisons-Alfort
Community association Métropole du Grand Paris and
Paris Est Marne et Bois
Coordinates 48 ° 48 '  N , 2 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '  N , 2 ° 26'  E
height 28-47 m
surface 5.35 km 2
Residents 55,655 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 10,403 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 94700
INSEE code
Website www.maisons-alfort.fr

Maisons-Alfort town hall

Maisons-Alfort is a south-east of Paris located French town with 55,655 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Val-de-Marne in the region Ile-de-France . The distance to the center of Paris is about ten kilometers. The inhabitants are called Maisonnais . Until 1885, the urban area also included the neighboring community of Alfortville .

history

The place is first mentioned under the name Mansiones in a deed of donation from King Hugo Capet from 988.

In 1885 about 40% of the urban area was separated and became the neighboring municipality of Alfortville .

In 1905 Buffalo Bill stayed two months in Maisons-Alfort during the Paris guest performance of his Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show .

Infrastructure

Maisons-Alfort is the seat of a national veterinary school ( École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort ), at that time the second institution for the study of veterinary medicine in France, and the headquarters of the French national bank BDPME.

Maison-Alfort is very well connected to the local public transport network thanks to the rapid transit line RER D (two stations) and Métrolinie 8 (three stations: École vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort , Maisons-Alfort - Stade , Maisons-Alfort - Les Juilliottes ) Connected to Greater Paris. Numerous bus routes complement this offer.

The connection to the French trunk road network is also good: the Autoroute A4 has a junction (No. 3) for Maisons, as does the ring road around Paris, the Autoroute A86 (junction 22).

Fragonard Museum

The Musée Fragonard is connected to the national veterinary school and shows specimens by the surgeon and anatomist Honoré Fragonard (1732–1799), who taught at this college and was its director for five years from 1766. He then became head of the anatomical department of the newly founded École de Santé in Paris. Fragonard belonged to the circle of encyclopedists who carried out his fundamental research on anatomy not only on animal corpses, but also on human dead. Parts of the body or whole bodies were freely dissected and colored wax was injected into the blood vessels. With further preservation, only the bones and tendons of the original are preserved - the preparation still looks very natural. The best-known exhibit is a whole horse with a rider. The principle of the procedure still exists today in plastination .

Attractions

See: List of Monuments Historiques in Maisons-Alfort

Town twinning

There is a city ​​partnership with Moers in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Personalities

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-de-Marne . 2nd Edition. Flohic Editions, Charenton-le-Pont 1994, ISBN 2-908958-94-5 .

Web links

Commons : Maisons-Alfort  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film about Honoré Fragonard with recordings in the museum by Jacques Donjean, Olivier Horn (director): The aesthetics of corpses. Documentation, France, Belgium, 2011, 53 min.