Ville-d'Avray

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Ville-d'Avray
Coat of arms of Ville-d'Avray
Ville-d'Avray (France)
Ville-d'Avray
region Île-de-France
Department Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement Boulogne-Billancourt
Canton Saint-Cloud
Community association Métropole du Grand Paris and
Grand Paris Seine Ouest
Coordinates 48 ° 50 ′  N , 2 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′  N , 2 ° 12 ′  E
height 86-178 m
surface 3.67 km 2
Residents 11,453 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 3,121 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 92410
INSEE code 92077
Website http://www.mairie-villedavray.fr/

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Ville d'Avray is a French city with 11,453 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Hauts-de-Seine in the region of Ile-de-France . The inhabitants are called Dagovéraniens .

geography

Ville-d'Avray is about 12 kilometers west of Paris city ​​center. Neighboring municipalities and towns are Sèvres , Marnes-la-Coquette , Saint-Cloud , Chaville , Viroflay and Versailles .

Population development

year 1946 1954 1962 1968 1975 1982 1991 1999 2006
Residents 3,397 4,351 6,027 10,487 11,699 11,625 11,645 11,573 11,255

Architectural monuments

See: List of the Monuments historiques in Ville-d'Avray

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

  • Arthur de Gobineau (1816–1882), French diplomat and writer
  • Boris Vian (1920–1959), French writer, jazz trumpeter, chansonnier, actor and translator

Personalities related to the city

  • Augustin Jean Fresnel (1788–1827), French physicist, died in Ville-d'Avray
  • Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875), French painter, spent weekends as a child in Ville-d'Avray, where his father had bought a country house. He also liked to visit the place as a painter, as he found motifs for his landscape painting here, especially around the ponds. He also painted four frescoes in the local church.
  • Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille (1848–1912), French battle painter, lived in Ville-d'Avray
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: Ville d'Avray, around 1867
  • Léon Gambetta (1838–1882), French politician, died in Ville-d'Avray
  • Janet Scudder (1869–1940), American sculptor and painter, lived in Ville-d'Avray until the Second World War
  • Jean Rostand (1894–1977), French biologist and writer, died in Ville-d'Avray
  • Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), American-born violinist and conductor, lived here from 1930 to 1935
  • Jean-Louis Petit (* 1937), French conductor, composer, organist and pianist, rector of the Ecole nationale de Musique et de Danse de Ville d'Avray and organizer of the Festival de Musique Française
  • Isabelle Huppert (* 1953), French actress, spent her childhood in Ville-d'Avray
  • Richard Clayderman (* 1953), French pianist, lived temporarily in Ville-d'Avray
  • Mylène Farmer (* 1961), French pop singer born in Canada, grew up in Ville-d'Avray

Others

1907: The Tour de France crosses Ville-d'Avray
  • The film Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray (Eng. Sundays with Sybill ), directed by Serge Bourguignon (1962), leading role: Hardy Krüger , was nominated for an Oscar in 1964 in the “Music” category ( Maurice Jarre ) .
  • The ponds ( étangs ) of Ville d'Avray, which Corot had also painted, are part of France's national heritage. They supply the fountains in the Saint-Cloud castle park with water.

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes des Hauts-de-Seine. Flohic Éditions, 2nd edition, Charenton-le-Pont 1993, ISBN 2-908958-95-3 , pp. 414-419.

Web links

Commons : Ville-d'Avray  - collection of images, videos and audio files