Louveciennes

Louveciennes
Louveciennes
Commune
	First snow in Louveciennes by Alfred Sisley, 1870
	Coat of arms
	Location of Louveciennes
	Louveciennes Louveciennes
	Coordinates: 48°51′39″N 2°07′02″E / 48.8608°N 2.1172°E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Yvelines
Arrondissement	Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Canton	Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt
Intercommunality	CA Saint Germain Boucles Seine
Government
• Mayor (2021–2026)	Marie-Dominique Parisot
Area 1	5.37 km2 (2.07 sq mi)
Population (2021)	7,563
• Density	1,400/km2 (3,600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	78350 /78430
Elevation	80–180 m (260–590 ft) ; (avg. 140 m or 460 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Louveciennes (French pronunciation: [luv(ə)sjɛn] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, between Versailles and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and adjacent to Marly-le-Roi.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	4,475	—
1975	7,488	+7.63%
1982	7,338	−0.29%
1990	7,446	+0.18%
1999	7,111	−0.51%
2007	7,247	+0.24%
2012	7,120	−0.35%
2017	7,099	−0.06%
Source: INSEE^[3]

Sights

Many châteaux from the 17th and 18th century (Château de Voisins, Château du Pont, Château du Parc, Château des Sources)
The Pavillon des Eaux, built in 1684 by Louis XIV and given to Madame du Barry by Louis XV
The Louveciennes Aqueduct of the Machine de Marly

Château de Voisins
Château du Pont

Culture

Louveciennes was frequented by impressionist painters in the 19th century; according to the official site, there are over 120 paintings by Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, and Monet depicting Louveciennes.

The composer Camille Saint-Saëns lived in Louveciennes from 1865 to 1870.

Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, the most famous female painter of the 18th century, is buried at the Cimetière de Louveciennes near her old home.

Anaïs Nin was a popular Cuban novelist born in Neuilly, an area in Paris and lived in Louveciennes from 1930 to 1936 at 2 bis, rue Montbuisson. The start of her career as an author started in this town.^[4]

Marshal Joseph Joffre, the commander of the French Army at the start of the First World War, built a property, La Châtaigneraie, at Louveciennes, and is buried in its garden.^[5] The tomb is not open to the public, and can only be seen at a ceremony on 11 November.

Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, died in Louveciennes 19 March 1987.^[6]

Orchestra conductor Charles Munch resided in Louveciennes at Place Emile Dreux, in the village of Voisins during the last decade of his life (1958–68). A plaque to that effect has been placed on the residence.

L'Aqueduc à Marly by Alfred Sisley, 1874
Entrée du village de Voisins^[7] by Camille Pissarro, 1872
Road to Versailles at Louveciennes by Camille Pissarro, The Walters Art Museum.

History

Until 1964, Louveciennes belonged to the former Seine-et-Oise département.

NATO had barracks for SHAPE here from 1959–1967, and the American School of Paris was located nearby from 1959 to 1967.

Transport

Louveciennes is accessible by two Paris metro lines: LINE 17 Saint Nom la Bretèche - Le Chesnay - Versailles Rive Droite and LINE 17S: Maule - Le Chesnay - Versailles Rive Droite. Two bus routes to and from Paris which operate a night service are easily accessible. Lines 55-1 and LINE 55 -2 are used to go to Le Celle Saint Cloud, Bougival, and other western suburbs of Paris.

Economy

After SHAPE left France, the French government allocated the property to CII, which soon thereafter became part of CII Honeywell Bull. Groupe Bull still has offices in Louveciennes.

Twin towns

Louveciennes is twinned with:

Radlett, United Kingdom, 20 km (12 mi) north of London – since 1983
Meersburg, Germany, at the shores of Lake Constance – since 1991
Vama, Romania, 450 km (280 mi) north of Bucharest – since 2000

Notable people

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s grave in Louveciennes. Her epitaph says "Ici, enfin, je repose..." (Here, at last, I rest...).

Madame du Barry (1743–1793), the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), a prominent portrait painter, official portraitist of Marie Antoinette^[8]
Armand Gagné (1771–1792), adopted son of Marie Antoinette
Alfred Sisley (1839–1899), Impressionist painter
Maréchal Joseph Joffre (1852–1931), general
François Coty (1874–1934), perfumer, businessman, newspaper publisher, politician and patron of the arts
Marcel Jean (1900–1993), Surrealist painter, writer, and sculptor
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), author

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 1 February 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "Petition to Preserve the House of Anais Nin".
^ à 15h53, Par Sébastien Birden Le 10 novembre 2017 (2017-11-10). "Le Maréchal Joffre, un habitant de Louveciennes presque comme les autres". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-05-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Leroy, Francis (2003). A Century of Nobel Prize Recipients: Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine (illustrated ed.). CRC Press. p. 141. ISBN 0-8247-0876-8. Extract of page 141
^ Le paysage est peint depuis l'actuelle avenue Saint-Martin, face à l'entrée du château de Voisins (derrière la charette). Il s'agit bien sûr du château actuel reconstruit en 1820.
^ May, Gita (2005). Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun : The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution. Yale University Press. p. 201. ISBN 9780300108729.

External links

Louveciennes official website (in French)
American School alumni view of Louveciennes
Church Saint Martin et Saint Blaise de Louveciennes
Committee for partnership between Louveciennes and their twin towns (in French)
Louveciennes 360 panoramas (in French)

[1] "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 1 February 2022.

[popleg2021-2] "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.

[pophist-3] Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

[4] "Petition to Preserve the House of Anais Nin".

[5] à 15h53, Par Sébastien Birden Le 10 novembre 2017 (2017-11-10). "Le Maréchal Joffre, un habitant de Louveciennes presque comme les autres". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-05-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[louveciennes-6] Leroy, Francis (2003). A Century of Nobel Prize Recipients: Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine (illustrated ed.). CRC Press. p. 141. ISBN 0-8247-0876-8. Extract of page 141

[7] Le paysage est peint depuis l'actuelle avenue Saint-Martin, face à l'entrée du château de Voisins (derrière la charette). Il s'agit bien sûr du château actuel reconstruit en 1820.

[8] May, Gita (2005). Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun : The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution. Yale University Press. p. 201. ISBN 9780300108729.

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