Arcueil

Arcueil is a common French, located in the department of the the Valley-of-Marne and the area Île-de-France, belonging to the Communauté of agglomeration of the Valley of Beaver.
Its Habitant S is called Arcueillais.

Geography

Situation

Arcueil is one of the 47 communes of the the Valley-of-Marne, whose chief town is Creteil. It depends on the Arrondissement of the Haÿ-the-Pinks.

The commune of Arcueil is located Bièvre on both sides, to 2 km in the south of Paris (Door of Orleans), recovering its slopes between the plates of Longboyau and Montrouge, between RN20 with the west and the A6 in the east. It is in extreme cases of the Hauts-de-Seine.

It is an entirely urbanized commune, laying out of some green areas and entirely out of basin. Its urbanization goes back to several successive times, which result in a juxtaposition of buildings of various styles (brick, house of Master, concrete building), of frame new and old, industrial waste lands and buildings with the abandonment.

Its surface is of 233 hectares including 20 of green areas.

Arcueil is crossed by the Beaver whose course is entirely channeled.

Arcueil is surrounded of the six following communes: Gentilly in north, the Kremlin-Bicêtre in the east, Villejuif in south-east, Cachan in the south for the Valley-of-Marne, Bagneux in the west and Montrouge in the North-West for the Hauts-de-Seine.

Transportation routes

Arcueil is served by:

following road ways:

A6.a (beam)
A6.b (left 2, crossroads of the 4 Ways)
RN20
D61

public transport following:

the RER B stops Laplace (tariff zone 2) and Arcueil-Cachan (tariff zone 3), cîse on the commune of Cachan, with borders of Arcueil. Alteration work for the access to the people with reduced mobility is in hand (2006 and 1st half of 2007) in these 2 stations.
Buses 57,162,184,187,188,197,297,323,580.
the service of Arcueil of the Urban transport of the Valley of Beaver, brought into service on September 1st, 2006, replaces the municipal shuttle Arc' Bus. This service of free bus, serving 18 stations on a circular course through the city, is exploited by the RATP. It is simply about the transfer of the municipal shuttle to the load of the community of agglomeration of the Valley of Beaver.

the GRP of the Valley of the Beaver

Divisions of the commune

districts of the city
The town of Arcueil is divided into various districts having each one their council of district.

the district Henri Barbusse
the district Jean Macé and the garden city
the district Joliot-Curie
the district Jules Ferry
the district Laplace
the district of the plate Kergomard

cities HLM
Arcueil, with approximately 50% of its rental equipment in HLM, has a big number of cities HLM characterized for the majority by a low number of levels (7 stages with more). These cities HLM are also used as benchmarks in the city. They are used even than the districts to indicate the localization of a place.

the city of the Green Hood
the city of the Black Cow (District concerned with a project of urban renewal signed with ANRU)
the city of the Church
the city Clement Ader
the Garden city (see below)
the city of the Irishmen
the city Auguste Delaune
the city Paul Valiant-Dressmaker
the Cherchefeuille city.

History

The city, formerly called Arcaloï , before becoming Arcueil, owes its name with the arches of the first aqueduct built by the Romans to bring the water drawn to Rungis to the thermal baths of Lutèce, on the site of the current museum of Cluny.

The commune was attached to the parish of Gentilly, just like the hamlet of Cachan whose stories intersected.

Arcueil is a city appreciated like vacation resort, in particular by Ronsard then by the Marquis de Sade.

To the 17th century, the construction of the aqueduct Médicis , in honor of its silent partner, on the layout of the Roman aqueduct, gives importance to the village.

April 27th 1894, Arcueil absorbs the hamlet of Cachan, the commune is called from now on Arcueil-Cachan .

The urbanization of the commune accelerates, one attends with the installation of the place of the church (to the site of the old cemetery) and the construction of the first allotments.

Following disagreements between Arcueillais and Cachanais, the law of December 26th 1922 creates the commune distinct from Cachan.

The mayors Emile Raspail, and more recently Marius Sidobre and Marcel Trigon, marked the city.

In 1922, after Fernand Brochand had crossed the Atlantic as a recluse of Martinique with the La Rochelle, this last offered the remainder of its coconut cargo to its birthplace of Arcueil. However, during transport, those opened and the coconut juice was spread on all the route of the vehicle which conveyed them at the time when they entered Arcueil. Some claim that these coconuts then attracted a population mainly communist to settle in the city.

Culture and inheritance

Arcueil, in spite of its modest size, has a heritage architectural, cultural and environmental rather rich.

Architectural heritage

the aqueducts Gallo-Roman, “Médicis” (first quarter of the 17th century) and “Belgrand” (19th century), separating Arcueil from Cachan, in the south of the city;
the Saint-Denys church (starting from the beginning of the 12th century);
the House of the Guards, construction of the 16th century
: With writing the poem the Nymph of the Beaver devoted to the valley of the Beaver and to Arcueil
the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814).
: The business Pink Keller proceeds in Arcueil. He was condemned to 7 months of imprisonment to have whipped Pink Keller whom he had employed like cleaning lady. His/her father-in-law paid the victim so that it withdraws its complaint and the Marquis de Sade succeeds in showing that its crime was not not envisaged by the law of more than 3500 inhabitants having used the machines to vote.

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