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Etymology

Its name would come from the many stud farms of asses ( asinarioe , asnerioe in Latin) present on its territory, and having been employed with the construction of the abbey of Saint-Denis even of the asses used to transport the bags of flour, coming from the mills of Sannois and Argenteuil, through the full one with Gennevilliers.

Blazon

" Of mouths to the boat equipped and equipped with money sailing on waves with same driving point, to the chief of gold charged with three flowers of thistle to the naturalness tigées and broken into leaf of sinople, to the bent quarter of azure charged with two crowned gold leopards passing one on the other. "

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Par the drawing of one boat to the antique, the blazon of the city evokes its river life. Tigées and broken into leaf flowers of thistle point out the asses of completed times. Crowned gold leopards are borrowed from the weapons of the Marquis de Voyer d' Argenson, owner of the castle of Asnières. May 27th, 1952, the Military Cross is affixed with the blazon to honor the 772 victims, soldiers and civil of the Second War mondiale.

History

1158 - (June 26th] a bubble of the pope Adrien IV: Ecclesiam de Asneriis cum cimiterio (church of Asnières, with cemetery) at that time specifies and attests existence of Asnières.
1224 - the seigniory of Asnières, implying the right of high justice, belongs as of before 1224 to the abbey of Saint-Denis. Until the end of XIIIe century, Gennevilliers depends on the parish of Asnières, and in 1302.
1248 separates some - Guillaume de Marcouris, abbot of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), Seigneur of Asnières, frees the unit from the inhabitants and all those of the close villages.
1460 - the commune whose population paid a heavy tribute with the Guerre One hundred Year old is of five fires (approximately 25 hearts).
1518 - Presence of a farm (property as of the abbey of Saint-Denis), whose farmer was to serve the port, to provide boats and discharge his right of tenant farming (112 book-tournament at that time) that came to receive the provost or Baillif, each year with the Rogations, at the same time as it returned justice and remained to be lunched.
1650 - the commune is honoured with the residence of famous characters such as the Duchesse of Brunswick, of Prince Palatin Edouard of Bavaria and his wife Anne de Gonzague de Clèves, Princesse of Mantoue.
1676 - (March 20th) Birth of Pierre Boudou, surgeon of the king and founder of the first school of girls of the village of Asnières. It was made famous as ophthalmologist (operation of a cataract with enucleation of the eye) Surgeon-chief of the Hotel God. († Paris 11/25/1751)
1680 - (towards) the abbot Antoine Lemoyne (Moyne or Lemoine), Lord of Asnières by usufruct of the chapter of Saint-Marcel, Doctor in Sorbonne, tries to embellish the name of the commune by " Asnières-Beautiful-Island ". All these attempts will remain vain.
1700 - (September 13rd) Demarcation between Asnières and Colombes for the fixing of said.
1704 - Asnières counts approximately 80 fires (450 hearts?).
1711 - (September 6th) Dedication of the Holy-Genevieve church (Holy protective of Asnières)
1715 - (towards) Marie-madeleine de Vieuville, countess of Parabère, have a house with Asnières, the site of the castle builds later on. It is the favorite one of Philippe of Orleans (1674-1723), regent of the kingdom of 1715 to 1723.
1730 - (July 12th) Death of Mrs. de Brunswick, Duchesse dowager of Hanover.
1750 - Construction of the castle of Marc-Rene de Voyer de Paulmy d' Argenson (1722-1787), marquis de Paulmy then of Argenson (1757) by Mansard de Sagonne (grandson of the famous Jules-Hardouin Mansard)
1752 - Setting at the day of important a Necropolis, dating from IVe century after J-C, discovered during the building work of the castle. the Count de Caylus, consulted for this purpose, yes affirms to have to say that king Dagobert, " first race " , a country house had on the ground of Asnières.
1790 - Pierre Dieudonné Delguèdre becomes the first mayor of Asnières, for three years. Profession: peasant.
1812 - First cadrastal map. Asnières finds there about his territory current.
1815 - Occupation of the castle of Asnières by the English troops.
1826 - First road bridge. With toll certainly, but it signs economic and demographic takeoff borough.
1837 - Arrival of the railroad (Paris line it Pecq in 45 minutes against 4 or 5:00 before).
1838 - Railway line Asnières-Versailles Right Bank.
1839 - Rich Gaspard Marie of Prony, dies in Asnières. This engineer and mathematician (born in 1755), first director of the office of the land register, member of the office of longitudes, deal with the manufacture of the standard kilogram and establish a set of trigonometrical tables in metric system (fourteen decimals). Fact Baron and par of France by Charles X
1848 - the events, which will mark the fall of the Monarchie of July, involve the destruction of the bridge. It will be rebuilt by Benoît Paul Emile Clapeyron (1799-1864).
1848 - the castle of Asnières is transformed while restoring, the place becomes very with the mode.
1850 - (towards) creates for itself a club of canoeing which will become one of the symbols of the city at the XIXe century, attracting such a crowd that one compares Asnières with Palos of Frontera, the Spanish port of or left Christophe Colomb.
1852 - Ernest Gouin introduces in France the construction of the metallic bridges with that of Asnières.
1857 - Inauguration of the first nursery school of the city.
1860 - Louis Vuitton installs its workshops with Asnières.
1861-1862 - Transfer of the cemetery of the avenue of Argenteuil to the street of Ménil.
1869 - the editor of art Adolphe Goupil installs his photographic workshops.
1870 - Creation of a service of slow train enters the Voltaire place to Asnières and the avenue from Clichy to Paris.
1870 - (September) During the German occupation the bridge of Asnières is completely destroyed, and part of the bridge of Clichy is damaged. The damage undergone by the public edifices was considerable, the station collapsed under the bombardments. (cf Head office of Paris (1870))
1871 - (April 9th) the general Ladislas Dombrowski, ordering Place of Paris, seizes Asnières to the hands of the Of Versailles one. April 19th, new combat enters the insurrectionists and the Of Versailles ones ordered by the Montaudon general. (cf Chronology of the Commune of Paris (1871))
1871 - the workman printer-lithographer Jean-Baptiste Girard (1821-1900) founds the popular Library with 3.000 works
1873 - Birth of Henri Barbusse († Moscow 1935). Its most famous book, fire, newspaper of a section obtains the Goncourt price in 1917.
1873 - Claude Monet (the year of impression, rising sun) and Auguste Renoir (1879) paints each one the Seine with Asnières, Georges Seurat in 1883 a bathe with Asnières, then the neo-impressionists (Paul Signac…) pose their pallet on the banks of the Seine: Van Gogh immortalise in her turn the bridge of Asnières (1887).
1873-1874 - Rebuilding of the two bridges (Asnières and Clichy) with steel decks.
1874 - (May 1st) Opening of the first police station.
1875 - the tram line of Paris and the Département of the Seine arrives at the Voltaire place.
1879 - Sarah Bernhardt, the large tragic actress, settles with 19 of the street Magenta in a property bearing the name of " castle of the fogs "
1880 - (towards) the operations of purification of the Camescasse prefect of police in Paris make flee the prostitutes which takes refuge of number with Asnières, consequently called poetically " Fat bags City "
1887 - Birth of Rene Schwaller de Lubicz, known as Aor († Fatty 1961), Egyptologist, hermetist (it joined the theosophic Société in 1913, then creates the group or rings Watchers).
1891, the Madeleine tram line/Bourguignons is opened with the public before being prolonged to Colombes a few years later (the animal haulage is consequently replaced by the motor traction)
1892 - the type-setter and organist Joseph-Antonin Aulagnier bequeath to the city 370.000 frs for the construction of an old people's home for old men (17 places and only for men) which will be inaugurated on the quays of the Seine in 1898.
1893 - Achille Laviarde (1841-1902) alias Achille Ier, king d' Araucanie, prince of Aucas, duke of Kialéon poses his Villa bags of the Cicadas (it sets out again about it in 1894).
1897 - (June 18th) Passage of a cyclone which involves the death of several people and very many damage.
1897 - (July 25th) Beginning of the construction of the town hall - one of most beautiful of the Hauts-de-Seine.
1899 - Creation of the Cemetery of the Dogs, first zoological necropolis in the world, located on the old Island of the Ravageurs, beside the Robinson park. One finds there tombs of cats, dogs of horses, monkeys, doves, parrots, etc but also that of a sheep, Rintintin and Barry.
1899 - (October 15th) Inauguration of the very new Town hall and its superb Room of the Marriages. (architect: Emmanuel Garnier)
1900 - the competitions of swimming of the plays of the second Olympiad (Olympic Games of summer of 1900) proceed in Asnières… in the Seine. The 60 m under water is worth in France its first gold medal.
1901 - Ernest Daltroff (1870-1941) repurchases the Emilia perfumery which takes then the name of an acrobat in vogue: Charon. It creates its own perfumes since 1904 (Royal Emilia, Royal Charon, Radiant) and settles partly which occurred of Lauzière: giving on the railway.
1907 - Birth of Maurice Bonnet († 1994), inventor of the “process Bonnet” of photography in relief.
1907 - Birth of the scenario writer Yves Allégret († 1987).
1910 - In January, Asnières is victim of the raw of the Seine.
1912 - Birth of Helene Perdrière († 1992) of the Comédie-Française, actress (Of man with men of Christian-jaque, the Mystery of the yellow room of Aisner, Topaz of Marcel Pagnol, the Phantom of the freedom of Shine Buñuel…)
1915 - In February, a Zeppelin bombards the city. This one destroyed, in particular, the old residence of Sarah Bernhardt
1927 - Albert Véchambre founds the company Radialva in December.
1928 - association Léopold Bellan (To advise of Paris) opens an old people's home.
1933 - Discovered of a Megalith or Menhir in driving position at the time of an excavation of burials in a Tumulus (visible in the public garden of the Leclerc Marshal).
1935 - Inauguration of the Administrative and Social Center (architects: Knight and Launay)
1939 - the abbot Jean Glatz is vicar with Saint-Joseph of the Four-Roads during the war of 39-40
1944 - (March 15th) the National council of Resistance (CNR) meets in Asnières and adopts an action plan which provides the foundations of the Social security, of the generalized retirements, the great public services, the work's councils, the agricultural social laws, the right to the culture for all…
1945 - Georges Colomb, said Christophe, born on May 25th, 1856 in Gleux-lès-lure, dies in Nyons (Drome), is buried in Asnières. He is the author of: the Family Fenouillard, the Sapper Camember, the Erudite Cosine, Adventures of Plick and Plock.
1952 - (May 27th) the Military Cross is affixed with the blazon of the commune to honor the 772 military and civil victims with the Second world war.
1959 - Michel Maurice-Bokanowski becomes Maire. Old Companion of the Release, former minister for the General de Gaulle. He dies on May 3rd, 2005.
1968 - Stop with the homonymy! Asnières is called from now on “Asnières-sur-Seine”.
1969 - Transfer of the old people's home towards the street Stephen, transformed into mixed Old people's home of 85 beds. A new building, doubling this capacity, will be built and inaugurated in 1990, side street Auguste Bailly.

Geography

The city is located in the north-western suburbs of Paris, on left bank of the the Seine, it has a common history with the town of Gennevilliers. Deprived of relief, apart from the old marshy beds of the Seine, which were drained and partially embanked at the end of the 19th century, several districts of the city are likely to be easily flooded within the framework of the centennial risings of the Seine.

Geology

The edges of the Seine are built on wet sandy grounds, and the majority of the buildings close to the edge of the Seine have only half-under-grounds solely in the layer of fill, playing the underfloor part of Space. The ground is movable, and follows periodic movements related to the level of draining of the wet tablecloths of the old marshy bottom from now on underground.

Also the old buildings are built on deformable flexible frameworks metal able to support these variations of level, with suspended floors and double-frontages (the exterior facades are decorative and posed on the embankment, the interior frontages and load-bearing walls are posed on deep foundations with metal reinforcement, and the floors can be raised or drop according to the season and of nival of water in basement.

Recent constructions in edge of the Seine have basement deep which require ceaseless pumpings during each building site, which accentuates the movements of surrounding grounds when the close tablecloths are emptied. These constructions require prestressed reinforced concrete foundations, provided with beams of support of the walls of basement to retain the push of the surrounding grounds, particularly in period of dryness. These recent constructions in edge of the Seine posed problems with older close constructions, because of the movements of ground definitely more important than those for which they had however been secured.

Town planning

Asnières-sur-Seine is strongly urbanized, it is a mainly residential city where houses of city, houses and residential buildings alternate. However the urbanization of the South of the City (close to Courbevoie and Colombes, in the district of Bécon-the-Heathers) is definitely older than the immediate quays of the Seine (of which the urbanization dates only from the beginning of the 20th century on the grounds of the old park of the castle of the city in edge of the Seine).

The surroundings of the castle of Asnières (inherited by the city at the 20th century), not far from current the hotel-of-city, are besides a sector protected in the town-planning, because the castle belongs to the repertory of the historic buildings (even if its state were let degrade itself during decades, so much so that this one was not even accessible any more to the public, and than its old park almost completely disappeared under the real pressure from the years 1960).

Some parks are located in center town (Joffre park, park Voyer d' Argenson, Robinson park on the quays, public garden of the impressionists, Leclerc public garden behind the town hall…). The Town hall of Asnières-sur-Seine has followed for several years a policy of discussed thickening. Public equipment remains very insufficient taking into account the demographic dynamism of the commune: the population is currently estimated at 85.000 inhabitants at least.

The Garden city, located 100 avenue des Grésillons, is composed of 730 residences approximately. They are brick buildings red, separated from green areas and built on the old sewage farms.

Communications and transport

Apart from small the port river on the the Seine in the South, of the navigation of leisure, and attached to the Port authority of Paris, the city has an port area in industrial matter in the North of the city on the following loop of the the Seine. This zone allows the exchanges of heavy materials, in particular of construction, whose costs of transport are very high and which only the river navigation makes it possible to convey in great quantity for Paris and its immediate crown.

The city is well served by public transport, thanks to the Gare of Asnières-sur-Seine whose trains bind quickly to the most important Parisian station in term of movement of travellers, the Gare Saint-Lazare, and with the districts of businesses of Defense (which extend on the North-West from Paris, Courbevoie, Nanterre and Puteaux). The district of the station with Asnières is thus a coveted zone because easy of access and very dynamics in term of marketing activity.

Asnières is also served in the North-East by the Gare of Gennevilliers where pass the RER and the suburban lines coming from the Gare of Austerlitz, station which serves also a zone of activity in edge of the Seine in the North-East of the city divided with that of Gennevilliers.

Between the two, the station Gabriel Péri - Asnières - Gennevilliers ensures a fast service road the principal centers of activity of Paris via also the Gare Saint-Lazare since the residential districts of Asnières. The city is located in zone 2 of Transport ticket for the subway and is thus accessible to the basic tariff for the ways towards the capital in zone 1. Many and frequent lines of bus ensure the local call of the principal districts and the common neighbors of the edge of the Seine, or worms of other districts of Paris. A special service of public transport for handicapped people is also available to residence for Asniérois. The service road by the train and the bus is in zone 3 of Transport ticket and requires a modest complement of subscription for the Parisian correspondence or to the Defense (which is also in zone 3, except for the stations of the Ligne 1 of the Parisian subway in zone 2, and which thus does not require a tariff complement of subscription since Asnières).

The motor vehicle traffic with Asnières is difficult. The essence of the traffic is done in edge of the Seine around the city. The crossing of the bridge of Asnières is excessively painful at the rush hours. Main street Charles de Gaulle is also almost impassable because serving Wood-doves and the communes of North. Moreover the city has very few parking bays, and the garages and private parking spaces are very coveted, rare and expensive.

Demography

Administration

Asnières-sur-Seine is divided into two cantons:

the canton of Asnières-on-Seine-North counts 43 250 inhabitants;
the canton of Asnières-on-Seine-South counts 32 384 inhabitants.

Successive mayors

Places and monuments

Alcazar: One of the first rooms of Suburbs devoted to the Cinema of Article
the cemetery of the dogs. First of the kind, it was created in 1899 on the old island of the Ravageurs, beside the bridge of Clichy. One finds there not only dogs, cats, birds but also of the horses, lions, monkeys, etc
the Château of Asnières: Built 1750 with 1752 for the marquis d' Argenson, the castle of Asnières was built with the site of an old castle having belonged to the countess of Parabère, mistress of the Regent. This monument was drawn by Jacques Hardouin-Mansart de Sagonne, architect of the King. Interior decoration is due to Nicolas Pineau and Guillaume II Coustou. Acquired in 1991 by the town hall, the interior restoration is far from being completed: only the half of the ground floor is accessible to the public. The central statue which decorates its pediment was replaced with identical of the original by an association asnièroise.
Church Holy-Genevieve d' Asnières: Building devoted in 1711 to one time when the city counted only a few thousands of inhabitants. The frontage, the platform and bottoms with dimensions were rebuilt in 1929.
the station Lisch, more known under the name of Station of Carbonnets: built in 1878, this old landing stage of the Field-of-March of Paris was built for the World Fair of 1878. This structure was dismounted in 1897 and transported with Asnières; though classified with the additional Inventory of the historic buildings, this building is very degraded and no prospect for restoration is currently considered.
the war memorial of the place Aristide Briand, one of the eleven remaining dedicated to the memory of died of the War of 1870. It is a work of the Cousteix architect and the sculptor Auguste Maillard. In July 2006, the monument is moved to be installed against the left side of the town hall, because of a project of carpark stopped to date.

Personalities related to the commune

Pierre Boudou (1676) surgeon of the King.
Anne Marie Victoire de Bourbon-Cop, Miss d' Enghien, die in Asnières at the 25 years age (1700)
Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) Doctor mental specialist - First established general doctor with Asnières. For lack of pharmacist with Asnières It received 100 frs per annum to exempt drugs with the poor.
Edouard Cadol (1831-1898) dramatic actor and friendly of George Sand - Knight of the Legion of Honor
Achilles Laviarde (1841-1902), known as Achilles Ier, king d' Araucanie, lived some time there.
Achilles Lemot (1846-1909), known as Uzès, draftsman, lived there and died there.
Réjane (1856-1920), lived 24, villa Davoust (" there; the house of Réjane" , this " folie" XIXe century, in a beautiful park, was demolished in 1992 in spite of the unfavorable opinion with the demolition of the Architect of the Building industries of France).
Jean Lescure: writer (1912-2005)
Edouard Zarifian (1941-2007), born in the commune.
Jean-Louis Florentz (1947) It joined the Academy of beautiful arts in 1995.
Christophe Barratier (1963) scenario writer and realizer of the film " Choristes".
Bourlem Guerdjou (1965) realizer, scenario writer, dialogist.
Poppys group of children resulting from the commune and high-speed motorboats of the popular song and committed French in the Years 1970.
Frederic Gorny, born on September 6th, 1973, actor.
William Gallas, born the August 17th 1977, player of Football.

Industry

Cosmetic S (L'Oreal, Procter and Gamble), Aeronautical (Lucas), Agro Food (Lesieur), Automobile Luxury (Louis Vuitton), (PSA), Health (Medistore (professional VPC health)), Medical device (Medishop), Decoration (HERE paints deco France)

Others

Asnières was made famous for the Sketch of Fernand Raynaud, the 22 in Asnières .
Vincent Van Gogh painted the restaurant of the siren with Asnières .
It is the Chorale Petits Singers of Asnières which gave rise to the group of children stars of the Années 1970 Poppys (5 000.000 of sold discs).
the film free-Beninese Djib (2000), of Jean Odoutan, was partly turned in Asnières.
the film Fear on the city (1975), realized by Henri Verneuil, with Jean-Paul Belmondo was partly turned in Asnières.

See too

University center of Asnières

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