Cachan

Cachan is a common French, located in the department of the the Valley-of-Marne and the area Île-de-France.

Geography

Cachan is located in the southern outskirts of the city of Paris, to 2 km of the doors of Orleans and Italy and 5 km of the center of the capital.

In the west of the Valley-of-Marne and in limit of the Hauts-de-Seine, it is close to the following communes:

The commune extends over all the width from the valley from the Bièvre, from one slope to another. At the top of the slope is, the panoramic park offers an quasi-exhaustive sight of the commune as well as a beautiful sight on south-west of Paris and the Eiffel Tower.

The districts of the city are:

  • the center town,
  • the Slope,
  • the Garden city,
  • the Plain,
  • the Meadow,
  • the Ory Barn,
  • Lights,

RN 20 passes in extreme cases western of Cachan, and towards north, allows to join the Porte of Orleans in 5 minutes. In the east, the highways has 6A and has 6B meet with the periphery of Cachan.

Cachan is served by two stations on the line of the RER B - Arcueil-Cachan and Bagneux , and the lines of bus J and L, as well as a service of municipal bus.

Cachan is twinned with, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Demography

The inhabitants of Cachan are Cachanais and Cachanaises.

Graph of evolution of the population 1926-1999

There are no data demographic former to 1926 since Cachan was until the end 1922 a hamlet dependant on Arcueil.

History

Preamble

The commune of Cachan exists only since 1923. It was a hamlet before then a rather middle-class and rural district of the industrial commune of Arcueil.

The April 27th 1894, the name of Cachan is assistant of that of Arcueil to form Arcueil-Cachan. In the course of time, however, the two communes start to be affirmed independently. In 1902, a decision of the municipal council to establish a new school with Arcueil - which counted already several schools, whereas Cachan did not have that a nursery school - starts a protest movement of the citizens of the commune which culminates in 1911 in a petition claiming the separation of with Arcueil.
Cachan became a middle-class city while Arcueil became populated workmen and elected a communist majority.

The December 21st 1921, the general advice of the the Seine gives an favorable opinion and the December 26th 1922, the Parliament votes the law ratifying the creation of Cachan.

Two fountains and the name of a district evoke time when the poets of the Pléiade (XVIe century) attend the valley, attracted by the bathes in the Bièvre, the wine and melons. Certain archeologists think that there would be in Cachan an old palate of the kings of France of the time of the Mérovingiens.

Anecdotiquement, it seems that Cachan was the starting point of the joke of the pink letter-boxes which was spread in Montmartre.

Mayors since 1923

City council man Arcueil-Cachan, indicated like chair of the special delegation the creation of the commune on January 1st 1923, mayor (of the January 8th 1923 with the February 24th 1923).

City council man of Arcueil-Cachan (1906 - 1923), then member of the special delegation and mayor-assistant of Cachan (1923 - 1928), it becomes again assistant after its mandate of mayor until his mort.

With the Release, it is killed the very same day out of its nomination of provisional commission agent whereas it returns to lui.

  • Alphonse Verdier (Arcueil-Cachan, 1898 -? , ap.1988), contractor of electricity, chair of the special delegation (August 26th 1944 with the May 18th 1945).

Mayor-assistant before the war, it would have resigned in 1942. He dies in the exercise of his fonctions.

Famous women and men

At the XIXe century

At the XXe century

The business of the “squatters” of Cachan

Running August 2006, several hundreds of immigrants of sub-Saharan Africa mainly in regular situation were expelled of a building of the campus pertaining to the Crous of Creteil on the campus of the National university. The building was then unused in the sight of a forthcoming demolition in order to rebuild a “wooded car park”.

The people finding itself in the street in spite of a proposal for one month a rehousing, the mayor of Cachan wished exceptionally to alleviate the things by rehousing them in the gymnasium of a school. The business is all the more complex as they wish to be rehoused in the same place.

The file became complicated recently with the arrival with the gymnasium of other people without relationship with the “squatters of Cachan”.

The prefecture announced that it would limit its offers of rehousing to 102 families is approximately 220 people, but the town hall listed 516 occupants in the gymnasium.

The September 6th 2006, Lilian Thuram and Patrick Vieira create a polemic by inviting for a football game some of these expelled. Initiative approved by certain associations such as S.O.S Racism but criticized by certain politicians of right-hand side like Philippe de Villiers.

Wednesday October 4th 2006, Patrick Gaubert and Dominique Sopo, president of S.O.S Racism like Pierre Henry, managing director of France Ground of Asylum, accepted a mission of mediation at the request of Nicolas Sarkozy, Minister of Interior Department. According to the Ministry for the Interior and the explanations of Claude Guéant, this mission would have begun several days before the advertisement made with the press, to see Le Monde and Le Figaro.

One year after the business of the “squatters of Cachan”, the assessment seems positive. The majority of the people could obtain either a provisional housing, or a residence permit. Associations as France Ground of Asylum stress that the government gave papers to 231 of the occupants. However, association recalls that there are on the still full French territory people without irregular situation resources.

Structure, inheritance and environment

Town hall

The town hall, imposing by will of revenge on the commune of Arcueil, is a work built at the beginning of the Années 1930 by the architects Joannès Chollet, Rene Chaussat, Yves Chaussat and especially Jean-Baptiste Mathon, First Grand Prix of Rome and inaugurated in 1935. This building is strongly influenced by the architectural precepts of the Dutch École, born during the previous decade.

Parks and gardens

The commune shelters several green areas testifying to its last rich person:

  • the departmental park Benjamin Raspail: located in full heart of the city, behind the Town hall, the Raspail park is largest of Cachan with its 3,08 hectares. It constitutes the dependence of a Château with modest dimensions built at the 18th century and is decorated of a Orangerie (of 1903 with 1940 and again since the Années 1990, transformed into space of artistic exposures), as well as rich person Bambouseraie.
  • the departmental panoramic garden: located in height, on the district of the Slope, this garden of 1,66 hectares offers a seen panoramic on all the commune and beyond, until Paris.
  • the public garden of the Commander Simmonin.
  • the public garden of the Release.

Fountains and river

  • the river Bièvre crosses Cachan, but it is entirely channeled and buried since the Années 1930 due to insalubrity. There exists a project to cleanse and redécouvrir the Bièvre in several places within the framework of the policy of environment of the Community of agglomerations.

  • the fountain, street Gallieni: in the past located place Gambetta

Aqueducts

See also Aqueducts of Arcueil and Cachan.

Cachan has of it anything less than four including three in a perfect state of conservation:

Listed monuments or registered

  • the Wing Rebirth of old the Castle of Provigny with its oratorical of late style Gothic: classification by decree of… the

  • wings 17th-18th century and of the commun runs (current " National academy of Music and Dance ") old castle of Provigny
  • frontages, room of the marriages of the Town hall

Remarkable sites

  • the municipal Cemetery sheltering several notable tombs;

  • the market Carnot
  • aqueducts;
  • the national school of music, dance, and dramatic art.

Teaching

Cachan accommodates many educational establishments of which establishments of higher education of reputation.

Colleges and preparatory classes

Two colleges, the college scientific and industrial Gustave Eiffel, and the college of mainstream education and technological Maximilien Sorre, offer preparatory classes to the contests of the universities for, respectively, the engineerings and economy-management.

Universities

Universities and other establishments

  • a IUT of the Université of Paris XI preparing with the HAD of high-level technicien in Electronic engineering or mechanical Engineering

  • the biomechanical University of Ostéopathie and applied (OSTEObio), private establishment of recent establishment preparing with the diplomas of License, Master, and Doctorat in Ostéopathie.

Nursery schools and primary and colleges

On the commune, one finds eight nursery schools (school Bridge-Royal, school Paul Doumer…), six elementary schools (school Belle Image, school of the Slope, school of the Plain, school Paul Doumer, Notre Dame school…) two public colleges (college Paul Bert and Collège Victor Hugo) and two private (Notre-Dame college and college St Joseph).

Leisures

Cultural

  • a Media library and its two decentralized Library S.

  • the municipal theater and its Gallery of Contemporary art
  • the Cinema " Pléiade" : complex of three rooms of exclusiveness, managed by the company UGC, and having the label " Art and Essai ".
  • the National school of Music, Dance and Dramatic art.
  • DIMADO with the Mini Club of the Slope (angle street Gaston Audat/Etienne Dolet) Club of leisures of the town of Cachan, for the schoolboys and high-school pupils.
  • a literary prize in partnership enters the town of Cachan, the ENS and a local bookstore. The price has existed for 8 years. The preceded books are first novels. The jury is composed of 15 normaliens which reads a selection of 15 pounds, established by a steering committee.

Sportsmen

  • the municipal Stage Léo Lagrange.

  • the municipal Stage Andre Dumotel.
  • the Public swimming pool.

Worships

  • Catholic

    • the church Holy-Germaine
    • the church Saint-Jean-the Evangelist

  • Moslem

    • the Mosque: " Masjid Al-Falah "

  • Protesting

    • L'" evangelic Church Lutheran "
    • L'" Church reformed of France "

See too

  • OTORADIO : Radio of proximity: Regular reports on community life, cultural,…

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