Rueil-Malmaison
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Hauts-de-Seine | |
| Arrondissement | Nanterre | |
| Canton | Rueil-Malmaison (main town) | |
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Métropole du Grand Paris and Paris Ouest La Défense |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 53 ' N , 2 ° 11' E | |
| height | 24-164 m | |
| surface | 14.70 km 2 | |
| Residents | 78,152 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 5,316 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 92500 | |
| INSEE code | 92063 | |
| Website | www.mairie-rueilmalmaison.fr | |
 Édouard Manet: Country house in Rueil 1882 |
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Rueil-Malmaison is a French city with 78,152 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) about 14 km west of the center of Paris . It belongs to the Hauts-de-Seine department in the Île-de-France region and is located on the Seine . It is the capital of the canton of Rueil-Malmaison , which consists only of this municipality; until 2015 part of the municipality belonged to the former canton of Garches . The inhabitants are called Rueillois .
City structure
The city consists of eight city quarters, which are called here "villages" :
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history
The city's name first appears in the 12th century as Roialum , which eventually becomes Rueil . Since 1928 the city has had its current double name to distinguish it from Rueil-la-Gadelière in the Eure-et-Loir department . Around 870, Charles the Bald donated this area to the Abbey of Saint-Denis . At the end of the 12th century, the monks built a chapel here. In 1635 they sold the site to Cardinal Richelieu , who had a castle built here. The court withdrew here during the Fronde .
In the 19th century, Impressionist painters such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Édouard Manet and Claude Monet came to Rueil-Malmaison to paint the Seine landscape there. In the Franco-Prussian War , Rueil was on the front line during the Battle of Buzenval on January 19, 1871. In 1958 the first supermarket in France was opened in Rueil .
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Rueil-Malmaison
- The city is best known for Malmaison Castle , where Napoleon and his first wife Joséphine lived. Joséphine's tomb is in the Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church in the city center, where her daughter Hortense de Beauharnais , mother of Napoléon III, rests .
- The Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church was built in the 16th century to replace a first church from the 12th century. The facade was built from 1632 by the architect Jacques Lemercier on the orders of Richelieu .
- You can also see the house of Père Joseph , who died here. He was a confidante of Cardinal Richelieu .
- The barracks of the Swiss Guard of the French kings was built in 1756 under Louis XV. Built by the architect Charles-Axel Guillaumot (1730–1806) and is now a historical museum.
- Old town hall , built in 1869, now used as a city museum.
Malmaison Castle
Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul Church
Old Town Hall
Town twinning
Rueil-Malmaison lists 16 twin cities :
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 Castile and León, Spain
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bad Soden 
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 Hessen, Germany
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1979 |
| Buxoro |
 Uzbekistan
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2009 |
Dubrovnik 
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 Croatia
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2011 |
Elmbridge 
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 Surrey, UK
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1974 |
Friborg 
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 Switzerland
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1992 |
Elsinore 
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 Zealand, Denmark
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Jelgava 
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 Zemgale, Latvia
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2007 |
Kirjat Malʾachi 
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 Israel
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1985 |
Kitzbühel 
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 Tyrol, Austria
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1979 |
| Le Bardo |
 Tunis, Tunisia
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1991 |
Lynchburg 
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 Virginia, United States
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Oaxaca de Juarez 
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 Mexico
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Sarajevo 
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 Bosnia and Herzegovina
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 Moscow, Russia
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1989 |
Timișoara 
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 Banat, Romania
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1993 |
Togane 
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 Honshū, Japan
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1990 |
| Zouk Mikael |
 Mount Lebanon, Lebanon
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1971 |
The city is also a member of the Federation of European Napoleonic Cities .
Transport and economy
Rueil-Malmaison is on the RER A line of the Paris Transport Company . On His -Ufer is also a connection to the A 86 , the Périphérique de l'Ile-de-France , an outer ring road around Paris.
The city is home to major French companies such as the PSA automotive group, the Vinci construction group , the Schneider Electric electronics company and the engineering service provider Ingérop ; But the French main branches and / or production facilities of many international companies are also located here, for example companies in the petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as the automotive and food industries.
Personalities
Sons and daughters:
- Hassan Amzile (* 1988), boxer
- Saint-Georges de Bouhélier (1876–1947), writer
- Marcel Ichac (1906–1994), mountaineer, film director and mountain film pioneer
- Marcel Jouhandeau (1888–1979), writer
- Fabrice Colas (* 1964), cyclist
- Jean Dujardin (born 1972), actor
People related to the city:
- Jean-Marie Le Pen (* 1928), founder of the Front National , lives with his second wife Jany Paschos in Rueil-Malmaison
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Hauts-de-Seine. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Charenton-le-Pont 1993, ISBN 2-908958-95-3 , pp. 324-347.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website Rueil-Malmaison
- ↑ Villes jumelles ǀ Ville de Rueil-Malmaison. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .