Sèvres
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Hauts-de-Seine | |
| Arrondissement | Boulogne-Billancourt | |
| Canton | Boulogne-Billancourt-2 | |
| Community association |
Métropole du Grand Paris and Grand Paris Seine Ouest |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 49 ′ N , 2 ° 13 ′ E | |
| height | 27-171 m | |
| surface | 3.91 km 2 | |
| Residents | 23,507 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 6,012 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 92310 | |
| INSEE code | 92072 | |
| Website | www.ville-sevres.fr | |
Sèvres ( pronunciation: / sɛvʁ / ) is a French commune with 23,507 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) and a suburb of Paris in the Hauts-de-Seine department . The inhabitants are called Sévriens . Not far from the Palace of Versailles , Sèvres is the seat of numerous congresses and organizations, e.g. B. the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures , in which, among other things, the historical original kilogram and the historical original meter are kept.
history
Sèvres became known to the general public primarily through the Treaty of Sèvres , which was concluded in 1920 after the First World War and the fall of the Ottoman Empire and which regulated the post-war order in south-eastern Europe and the Middle East . An essential element of the treaty were the parts of the treaty concluded between the Entente and the Ottoman Sultan , after the Armenians and (after a referendum) Kurds were to be granted independence and Greece the coastal region around Smyrna (now İzmir ), Italy the south-western part and France and Great Britain the south-east part was awarded. The treaty was not recognized by Ataturk and the " Young Turks " and was revised in 1923 in the Treaty of Lausanne in favor of Turkey.
politics
Mayor ( maire ) had been François Kosciusko-Morizet, who had been a candidate for the UMP , since 1995 . Grégoire de La Roncière ( Divers droite ) has been mayor of the city since 2014 .
Architectural monuments
See: List of Monuments Historiques in Sèvres
economy
From 1756 onwards, Sèvres has housed the Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres, founded in 1739 in Vincennes Castle , and, in addition to the Meissen porcelain factory, produced the most valuable European porcelains in the 18th century .
Town twinning
- Wolfenbüttel , (Germany)
- Mount Prospect , Illinois (USA)
- Mărăcineni , Romania
sons and daughters of the town
- Charles Julien Brianchon (1783–1864), mathematician
- Constant Troyon (1810–1865), painter
- Louis de Gramont (1854–1912), journalist, playwright and librettist
- Philippe Berthelot (1866–1934), French diplomat
- Amalric Walter (1870–1959), French ceramist and glassmaker
- Lola Artôt de Padilla (1876–1933), French-Spanish soprano who performed mainly in Germany
- André Patry (1876–1971), Swiss ophthalmologist
- Robert-Jules Garnier (1883–1958), French film architect, pioneer of cinematography
- Léon Brillouin (1889–1969), French-American physicist
- Réginald-André-Paulin-Edmond Jacq (1905–2001), Roman Catholic priest, Vicar Apostolic
- Albert Rémy (1915–1967), French actor
- Lucille Sévin (before 1920 – after 1940), French sculptor
- Manu Chao (* 1961), musician
- Booba (* 1976), French rapper
- Sarah Ourahmoune (* 1982), French boxer
- Lolita Pille (* 1982), French writer
- Karim Ziani (* 1982), Algerian soccer player
- Demba Ba (* 1985), Senegalese football player
- Issiar Dia (* 1987), Senegalese soccer player
- Andrew Albicy (* 1990), French basketball player
- Tanguy Coulibaly (* 2001), French football player
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Hauts-de-Seine. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Charenton-le-Pont 1993, ISBN 2-908958-95-3 , pp. 364-375.
Web links
- Official website of the city
- Les enfants cachés pendant la seconde guerre mondiale aux sources d'une histoire clandestine, by Celine Marrot-Fellag Ariouet: La Petite République. Rescue of children in Sèvres before the extermination during the German occupation of the country, in French.
Individual evidence
- ↑ La liste des maires du 92 s'engagent , accessed on October 5, 2017 5