Fontenay - with the Roses is a city of the southern suburbs of Paris, chief town of canton of the department of the Hauts-de-Seine. Its Habitants is the Fontenaisiens and Fontenaisiennes .

Geography

It is been next to by the towns of Bagneux, Châtillon, Clamart, Plessis-Robinson and Sceaux.

History

The first part of its name comes to him from many the source S which streams on its territory, to hillside from the plate from Châtillon. The second part of its name is explained by the favor that the culture of this flower as from the 17th century until the medium of the XIX {{E}} knew. The village had in particular the exclusive privilege to provide in pink S the Sun king. That explains the attraction partly that the borough exerted on new the Rosati, which met there each year of 1892 to 1992.

A National university formed a long time there of the young girls --- sung by Maxime the Forester ( You are so pretty when you spend the evening to the angle of my street,… ), before being delocalized in Lyon to constitute ENS Lettres and Social sciences, in 2000. The buildings accommodated of 2002 to 2005 the UFR of visual arts of the University Paris 1.

Fontenay shelters an establishment of the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, where was in particular activated famous the Pile Zoe and decontaminated the MolMan. The ECA of Fontenay directs itself today towards sciences of alive, to replace the nuclear research, in order to limit the risks of such an activity in full agglomeration. The building was the fort of Châtillon.

Close to the ECA is the seat of the Central Laboratoire of Electric Industries (LCIE, subsidiary of Veritas Bureau), which issues compliance certificates on the electricals appliance.

Demography

Administration

Mayors of Fontenay

Intercommunality

January 1st, 2005, it created the Communauté of Southern agglomeration of the Seine with the communes of Bagneux, Clamart, Malakoff.

Twinnings

Transport

  • THE RER B : Fontenay is served by two stations, one located on the territory of the commune (the RER Fontenay-Aux-Roses), the other with 400m of the Southern limit of the commune, on the territory of Seals (Robinson).
* One can specify besides the importance of the station the RER of Borough-the-Queen, from which three lines leave Bus serving the commune (390, 391 (Blagis) and 394).
  • Drunk: many lines of bus, because in particular of the presence of a bus depot the RATP on the commune (Center Drunk of Fontenay-Aux-Roses). Buses 128,162,188,194,195,294,295,390,391,394,395,475.
  • Tram T8 (in project), a station, on the level of the roundabout of Leclerc division.

Personalities

  • Pierre Bonnard, painter, born in Fontenay-Aux-Roses in 1867 (native house: with the angle of the streets of Estienne d' Orves and André Neyts, close to the college of Ormeaux)
  • Jacques Deprat, geologist, native of Fontenay-Aux-Roses in 1880.
  • Joris-Karl Huysmans lived there in July 1881, stay at the time which he worked With wrong way , whose hero Of Esseintes lives Fontenay-Aux-Roses.
  • Alexandre Noll, sculptor and wood engraver, deceased in Fontenay-Aux-Roses on November 30th, 1970
  • Paul Léautaud, writer lived a long time in Fontenay (24, rue Guérard), but it died out with the Private clinic of the Valley to the Wolves, in Châtenay-Malabry, in 1956.
  • Dieudonné balled Me balled Me, Humoriste, born with the Private clinic from Fontenay in February 1966.
  • Ilona Mitrecey, Singer, born on September 1st, 1993 with the Private clinic of Fontenay, lives in Neuilly-sur-Seine (apparently)
  • Boris Vildé, resistant, shot to the Mount-Valérien on February 23rd, 1942 with the other resistant ones of the Réseau of the Museum of the Man, lived in Fontenay-Aux-Roses.
  • Ferdinand Batch, historian, member of the Institute, specialist in the Middle Ages, lived a long time in Fontenay-Aux-Roses where it is buried in the tomb family.
  • Aristide Boucicaut, founder of Bon Marché and benefactor of the commune, lived a long time in Fontenay where it had an important residence (known under the name of " Boucicaut" castle; and shaven in 1954); it ft also member of the Municipal council.
  • Rene Barthelemy, French physicist, lived in Fontenay and, although deceased in Antibes, rests with the communal cemetery of Fontenay.
  • Bilal, rappor known on Internet thanks to his individual " Zermi of the 92" in April 2006.
  • Emilie Mazoyer, born in 1980 with Fontenay, radio presenter on Mouv'.

Public schools

  • the college of Ormeaux.
  • elementary schools: the Wheel (Wheel has and Coils B), the Park, Ormeaux, the Foxes, the Periwinkles.
  • nursery schools: the Wheel, Scarron, the Park, Ormeaux, Foxes, Periwinkles.

And of 1881 to 2000: National university of Fontenay-Aux-Roses then of Fontenay - Saint-Cloud (1985). From 2002 to 2005: " university pole of Arts and Culture" university Paris 1 - the Pantheon Sorbonne (in the old buildings of the ENS, to replace the center St-Charles in Paris, then in work)

In project: pole of teaching and research on health and the environment, of the University Paris XI (Paris-South), always in the old buildings of the ENS.

Leisures and culture

  • a theater: The Theater of the Sources
  • a cinema: " Scarron"
  • a Media library
  • a Council school of Music and Dance approved by State (EMDA)
  • a Sociocultural Space of Animation and Educational Leisures (Stopover)

Associations

  • the Sports association fontenaisienne (ASF): 24 sports (23 sections), 4.000 members.

  • Movement European of Fontenay-Aux-Roses

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See too

Internal bonds

Notes, sources and references

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