16th district of Paris

Geography

The XVIe , one of the twenty Districts of Paris, is located on the Right Bank of the the Seine, in the south-west of the capital. It is delimited in the East by the Seine and the West by the Parisian peripheral, except for wood Boulogne which is located other with dimensions of this way.

It borders inter alia the communes of Neuilly-sur-Seine and of Boulogne-Billancourt, the Bois de Boulogne includes/understands and is directly bordering with the VIII {{E}} and XVII {{E}} district and while crossing the Seine with the VII {{E}} and XV {{E}}. It is also bordering, by its southern point is and while crossing the Seine, of the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux.

Following the example other Parisian districts, it densément is densément urbanized, in spite of the presence of several gardens. The part of the district which is the wood of Boulogne east as for it entirely wooded, crossed by ways suitable for motor vehicles and some buildings there are established, in particular the Zoological gardens.

The principal terrestrial access roads are the Parisian peripheral in the west, the Georges-Pompidou quay in the east, along the Seine, the bridges connecting it to VIIe and XVe districts as well as the streets and large arteries connecting it to VIIIe and XVIIe districts.

The district is crossed by the underground lines 2, 6, 9 and 10, by the RER C and a great number of lines of bus.

It deals with imposing the Eiffel Tower and includes/understands the Maison de Radio France, the place of the Trocadéro, the Rue of Passy, or the Victor-Hugo avenue, the Parc of the Princes, the street of Auteuil, the avenue of the President-Kennedy, the Exelmans boulevard, the street Michel-Angel, the street Molitor, the Foch avenue, the Kleber avenue and part of the place of Star to only quote most known.

The south of the district contains charming villas and hamlets.

It is, from its big size, the only district of Paris to have two zip codes different. One will thus find there:

  • In the south: 32, avenue Raphaël 75016 Paris
  • In north: 57, avenue Marceau 75116 Paris

This district is sometimes named the district of Passy, of the name of an old commune annexed by Paris in 1860.

History

History of the district

Before plunging itself in the history of the 16th district of Paris, it is very important to understand that, during hundreds of years, Paris did not have the current size. Thus, during more than 1000 years, all the 16th district was located apart from Paris and was actually made up only of several villages stuck the ones to the others.

All starts at the 7th century. At the time, on Right Bank of the Seine extending from the district of current Chaillot in Boulogne, existed a forest of the name of Rouvray and a village of the name of Nimio. The bishop of Mans, holy Bertram, had the field and a villa. To its death in 623, in accordance with its will, the whole of its field (including the village of Nimio, famous since Nijon) with the related vines is bequeathed to the diocese of Paris. It specifies there that its vines are located in a place, where it exists small sources, name of Fontanitum. With time, the inhabitants of Nimio separated. A part went towards the sources and the marshes, thus forming the village of Auteuil (meadow as a Celt). The others approached Paris where part of the forest of Rouvray (fame since wood of Boulogne) had been cut down, forming the village of Chaillot (drifting a priori of Chal or Road metal, meaning destruction of trees). Its two villages thus depended on two distinct parishes. With time, that of Auteuil too being extended, one divided it into two between Auteuil and Passy.

Before the 11th century, one finds no reference to the current names of the districts of the district (Passy, Auteuil, Chaillot). And if the district had three distinct parishes well, there always were only two villages in administrative terms with knowing Auteuil and Passy. Chaillot indeed seemed a suburb of Paris. For Auteuil, it should be waited until 1192 so that the new village has a structure of village with a parish. In 1109 already, the abbots Génofains d' Auteil had exchanged their grounds Normans counter the grounds of Auteuil, then had by the abbots of the Nozzle Hellouin. The name of Passy, called " Passicium" (or Paciacum), appears for the first time in a charter in 1250. The first lord of Passy was Jeanne de Paillard in 1416.

12th century with that of the French revolution, the district constitutes a corner of quiet greenery with vines and forest, all at the same time far from town planning and the ambient noise and very near by the distance.

17th century with integration in Paris

In 1627, Louis XIII transfers royal Manufacture from carpet, created by Henri IV, of Louvre to the current site of the Palais of Tokyo. In 1702, Chaillot, 2000 inhabitants at this time, becomes officially a suburb of Paris called Faubourg of the Conference, on a decision of Louis XIV. Only the barrier of Passy also called Conference, a 3,3 height meters wall with passages to tolls, separates Paris de Chaillot.

The village of Passy was made up:

  • of the castle of Boulainvilliers (name adopted as from 1747). This field went from the House of Radio-France to the Mozart avenue. It is to the banker Samuel Bernard that one owes dimensions of the field of Boulainvilliers.
  • of the plain of Passy, where many windmills functioned until the 19th century.
  • of a third field going down to the Seine where one could admire the hotel of Lamballe there, sits of the current embassy of Turkey.
Claude Chahu, Lord of Passy, financier and adviser of the king, made set up a vault in 1666, Our-Dâme-of-Grace, which became an independent parish in 1672. The Marquis de Boulainvilliers was the last lord.

The village of Auteuil: 1109 with the Revolution, the monks maintain the grounds and make gift of the wine resulting from the vines to the Bishop of Paris. The village of Auteuil very early seemed a peaceful place compared to Paris, city noisy and not very pleasant to live. Boileau and Molière were among the first personalities to be settled there. Consequently, Root, the Fountain, Lully, the Heather and others attend the living room of Molière. Later, Anne-Catherine de Ligniville Helvétius holds in Auteuil a very famous living room near the many writers and intellectuals of Paris at the 18th century. Diderot, D' Alembert, Condillac, Malesherbes, Turgot and well of others ravels there.

Sources: Their existence played an important role in the development of the villages Passy and Auteuil at one time when the presence of sources of water was a key factor in the development of a city. In 1650, one finds a first source of clear water with Passy. One found others in Auteuil of them. The sources were exploited and many are those which were going to make a cure at a watering-place with Passy or Auteuil. The source of Passy is dried up however rather quickly but those of Auteuil, although less important, lasted until 1925 for some. Today still the old artesian well of the Lamartine public garden remains.

The integration of the villages in Paris

With Napoleon III and the baron Haussmann, the villages of Auteuil and Passy as Chaillot will be definitively integrated into the town of Paris in 1860. The Mur of the Farmers general which separated current the 16th district from the remainder of Paris is then cut down. The place of Star has finally 12 junctions. The large avenues are widened following the example avenue of Saint-Cloud, current which occurred Victor-Hugo, (+36m broad) or avenue of the King de Rome, current which occurred Kléber, or avenue of Iéna. Auteuil is disenclosed thanks to the opening of the Mozart avenue, to be connected to the Passy village, and of the street Michel Ange, to be connected to the Door of Saint-Cloud. The great fields disappear. Only some private mansions, villas (Molitor villa, Mozart villa, Boileau villa, Erlanger villa, villa George Sand, Manual Eugene villa) and ways private remain, sign of a completed time.

Famous characters

Famous characters born in the district

  • the novelist and dramatic author, Paul de Kock, was born in the village from Passy in 1794. It is resulting from a family of Dutch bankers.
  • Jean Hubert was born in the village from Auteuil in 1807. It was, enter different, private secretary of Delphine Gay and Michelet.
  • the French poet and novelist, Louis Aragon was born on October 3rd, 1897 there.
  • Francoise Dolto, which took part with Jacques Lacan in the creation of the school freudienne, was born in the district. She is also the mother of Carlos.
  • the French actor, Jean François was born on May 16th, 1920 there.
  • the founder of Télérama, Georges Montaron was born there in 1921.
  • the journalist and writer, Claude Sarraute, was born there in 1927.
  • old the Minister of Justice and current senator of the socialist group, Robert Badinter was born in the 16th district on March 30th, 1928.
  • Michel Polac, former journalist of television, was born on April 10th, 1930 there.
  • the writer Régis Debray was born in the district on September 2nd, 1940.
  • Érik Orsenna was born on March 22nd, 1947 there.
  • François Berléand, actor French was born in the 16th district in 1952.
  • the French actress, Isabelle Huppert was born in the district, on March 16th, 1953.
  • the TV host, Christophe Dechavanne was born in the 16th district on January 23rd, 1958.
  • the actress, Emmanuelle Seigner was born on June 21st, 1966 in the district.
  • Bernadette and Claude Chirac, respectively wife and girl of Jacques Chirac are both born in the district.

Famous characters related to the district

  • Benjamin Franklin lived 10 years at the village of Passy. It was lodged by Mister de Chaumont. He worked enter others to the laboratory installed by Louis XV the castle of the Dumb woman.

  • At the 19th century, after many acquisitions, Benjamin Delessert had become owner of all the grounds skirting the Seine and going up to the current street Raynouard. It made use of it to install a cotton-spinning there then a beet sugar factory. When he died in 1847, one replaced industries by dwellings.
  • Honore de Balzac lived of 1840 to 1847 in the village of Passy under a pseudonym to escape its creditors. It is possible to visit its house located in the current street Raynouard.
  • the general Appert, former commander of army corps, large cross of the Legion of honor and former ambassador of France in Russia east died in the district, the old village of Passy.
  • the French architect, Hector Guimard, marked of its print the architecture of the district by carrying out many buildings. It was the principal one representing Art nouveau in France.
  • the dramatic author Eugene Ionesco lived with 38, rue Claude-Terrasse.
  • the former Prime Minister, Edouard Balladur lives Delessert boulevard.

Demography

At the time of the census of 1999, the district was populated of 161.773 inhabitants out of 791 hectares, that is to say 20.452 hab/km ² (wood of Boulogne excluded).

Note: Bois de Boulogne excluded in calculation from the densité

Administration

Schools

; Public education:
  • the district counts:
    • 16 public nursery schools
    • 16 public elementary schools
    • 8 colleges and colleges of which a college of vocational training a college of commercial teaching, Rene-Cassin, and five colleges/public lycées, Janson-with-Sailly, Jean-Baptiste Say, the Fountain, Molière and Claude-Bernard. There is also the college Eugene-Delacroix, public also, which does not act as college.

; Private education under contract:

  • the district counts:
    • 4 private nursery schools
    • 12 private elementary schools
    • 2 private colleges
    • 1 private college
    • 8 colleges/colleges private

; Private education except contract:

  • the district counts:
    • 1 nursery school deprived except contract
    • 2 elementary schools deprived except contract
    • 2 colleges deprived except contract
    • 2 colleges deprived except contract

Deputies

The district is divided into two legislative districts, 14th and 15th districts of Paris.

They correspond respectively to the southern and northern parts of the district, and are respectively appointed by it Misters Claude Goasguen, UMP, Conseiller of Paris, and Bernard Debré, UMP. They are both former ministers (Reform of the State from May in November 1995, government Juppe I, and Co-operation, of December 1994 in May 1995, Balladur government).

Mayors

Successive mayors:

National policy

At the time of the first turn of the presidential election of 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy arrived largely at the head of the candidates on the district with 64,02% of the voices in front of Francois Bayrou (16,43%), Ségolène Royal (11,27%) and Jean-Marie Le Pen (4,43%).

To the second turn, the May 6th 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy obtained there 80,81% of the voices (including 84,41% in the 15th district) against 19,19% with Ségolène Royal, that is to say the best score obtained by him in the districts of the capital (50,19%).

Economy

  • AT January 1st, 2006, the district counted 26909 companies, that is to say 8,7% of the active companies in Paris (+4,5% in one year). The three dominant sectors are:
    • the real estate and the hiring (48,27% of the companies)
    • services with the companies (22,77%)
    • the trade (11,35%)

  • the structure of the companies is distributed in the following way:

    • 41,5% of civil society
    • 36% of limited liability company
    • 12,5% of joint stock companies active

  • the average of the contractors of the district is 51 years (- 2 years and 8 months in one year) including 26,4% women, quantifies higher than the Parisian average who is of 24,68%. 89% of the new contractors are French, figure very definitely higher than the Parisian average which is of 83,55%. The failures of companies decreased by 18,5% in one year.

  • the number of creations of companies fell by 2,6% in 2005, compared to 2004, thus reaching the 2347 companies created in one year. The average lifespan of the companies is 9 years and 7 months (10 years and 3 months on average in Paris).

  • 1401 companies disappeared from the district in 2005 is 5,21% of the active companies of the district. Among those, 19,5% had less than 3 years and 31,25% had between 5 and 10 years. 61% stopped due to 32% and discontinuance of business because of a removal of the company in another department. 31% of these companies were services companies with the companies, 25% were in the real estate and the hiring and 17,4% in the retail business.

Tourism and inheritance

Official buildings

  • the world seat of OECD is in the 16th district, on the level of the door of the Dumb woman. It borders the garden of Ranelagh.

The district counts more than 90 diplomatic representations is more than 40% of the diplomatic representations present in France.

  • consulate and the Embassy of Afghanistan

  • the embassy of Albania
  • the embassy of Andorra
  • the embassy of Angola
  • the embassy of the Republic of Angola
  • the embassy of Saudi Arabia
  • the Argentinian embassy of
  • the permanent mission of the Austria at OECD
  • the embassy of the Bahrain
  • the embassy of the Bangladesh
  • the embassy of the Republic of Belarus
  • the embassy of the Republic of Benign the
  • the embassy of Bolivia
  • The embassy of Brunei Darussalam
  • the royal embassy of the Kampuchea
  • the embassy of the Cameroun
  • the embassy of China (Popular republic)
  • the embassy of Cyprus
  • the embassy of Ivory Coast
  • the embassy of the Democratic republic of Congo
  • the embassy of the Republic of Croatia
  • the royal embassy of the Denmark
  • the Embassy of the Republic of Djibouti
  • consulate-general of the the Arab Republic of Egypt
  • the embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt
  • the embassy of El Salvador
  • the embassy of Spain
  • the embassy of the Gabon
  • the Embassy of the Ghana
  • the Embassy of Georgia
  • the embassy of Greece in France
  • the embassy of Guinea
  • the embassy of the Honduras
  • the Commercial delegation of Hungary
  • the permanent delegation of Hungary at OECD
  • the embassy of India
  • the embassy of Indonesia
  • the embassy of Iraq
  • the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • the Embassy of Ireland
  • the Embassy of Iceland
  • consulate-general of Italy
  • consulate of the Jamaica
  • the embassy of the Kenya
  • the embassy of the State of Kuwait
  • the embassy of the popular Democratic republic of Laos
  • the embassy of Latvia
  • the embassy of the Lebanon
  • the embassy of Libya
  • the embassy of Macedonia
  • the embassy of the Republic of Madagascar
  • the embassy of Malaysia
  • the embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco
  • The embassy of Mauritania
  • the embassy of the Mexico
  • the embassy of Moldavie
  • the embassy of the Principality of Monaco
  • the embassy of the Republic of Namibia
  • the embassy of the Nicaragua
  • the embassy of the Republic of Niger
  • the embassy of the Nigeria
  • the embassy of New Zealand
  • the embassy of Uganda
  • the embassy of the Pakistan
  • the embassy of the Peru
  • the embassy of the Filipino
  • the Permanent representation of Poland at OECD
  • the embassy of Poland (economic and commercial service)
  • the embassy of the Portugal
  • the Office Commercial and Tourism of the Portugal
  • the general delegation of the Quebec
  • the embassy of Russia
  • consulate of the Senegal
  • the embassy of Serbia and Montenegro
  • the embassy of the Republic of Seychelles
  • the embassy of the Republic of Singapore
  • the embassy of the Slovak Republic
  • the embassy of the Republic of Slovenia
  • the embassy of the Republic of Sudan
  • Itembassy Sri Lanka in France
  • the permanent delegation of the Sweden at OECD
  • the embassy of the Sultanate of Oman
  • the Representative office of Taipei in France
  • the embassy of Tanzania
  • the embassy and High Representation of the Republic of Chad
  • the royal embassy of Thailand
  • consulate-general of Tunisia
  • the embassy of the Turkménistan
  • the embassy of Turkey
  • consulate of the Uruguay
  • the embassy of the Venezuela
  • the embassy of the Vietnam
  • the embassy of the Yemen

Important monuments and places

Hippodromes

Sports complexes

Places of worships

; Church Anglican: ; Catholic churches: The district counts:
  • 7 Catholic churches (Notre-Dame de Grâce of Passy, Notre-Dame of the Assumption of Passy, Saint-Honore d' Eylau, Saint-Pierre de Chaillot, Notre-Dame d' Auteuil, Holy-Jeanne de Chantal, Saint-François de Molitor)
  • 3 vaults (Holy-Therese-Orphans of Auteuil, brood Carmelite friars, brood Marie-Repairing)
as well as the Sainte-Marie abbey of Paris. ; Eastern Catholic churches: There are two of them: one follows the Russian catholic worship (Russian Catholic church) and the other the Byzantine catholic worship (Byzantine catholic rite Rumanian Saint-Georges). ; Orthodoxe churches: There are three in the district of them (Russian orthodoxe Church, Greek orthodoxe Église, Russian orthodoxe Église abroad). ; Foreign catholic missions: There is Spanish (Mission of the immaculate Heart of Marie) and allemande (Mission Saint-Albert the Large one). ; Synagogs: There are two of them (liberal Union Jew of France and traditional Culte Jew) ; Protestant temples: There are two of them (reformed Church of Auteuil and reformed Church of the Annunciation).

Green areas

Parks and wood

Gardens

  • Zoological gardens
  • Garden of the place Rodin
  • Garden of the House of the Orphans Apprentices of Auteuil
  • Garden Shakespeare
  • Gardens of the place of the Door Shirt
  • Gardens of the Door of Saint-Cloud
  • Gardens of the Which occurred Foch
  • Gardens of the Holy church Jeanne de Chantal
  • Garden Holy-Périnne
  • Garden Sarrail
  • Garden of the greenhouses of Auteuil
  • Garden of Trocadéro

Public gardens

  • Square Alboni
  • Square Alexandre I {{er}} of Yugoslavia
  • Square Alfred-Capus
  • Square Coquoin
  • Square of the Porte of Saint-Cloud
  • Square of the Écrivains combatants died for France
  • Square of the the United States
  • Square Lamartine
  • Square of the Poets
  • Square of the Palais Galliera
  • Square Henry-Battles
  • Square Tolstoï
  • Square Yorktown

See too

  • Place Charles-of-Gaulle

Districts

External bonds

Institutional

  • Web site of the Town hall of the 16th district of Paris
  • Office of the sporting Movement of the 16 {{E}}

Others

  • Gate of the 16 {{E}} district of Paris
  • Newspaper citizen of the 16 {{E}} district of Paris

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