See also: Robinson

Plessis-Robinson is a common department of the Hauts-de-Seine, in the area Île-de-France, in France. Its inhabitants is the Robinsonais .

Situation

Located at 6 km of the doors of Paris, the city of Plessis-Robinson is bordering on the communes of Clamart, Fontenay-Aux-Roses, Sceaux, Châtenay-Malabry.

Constituted in the west by a plate and the east by escarpés and timbered slopes, the commune profits from a particularly pleasant natural framework, with in particular in its culminating point (178 meters, highest of the department) an exceptional sight of the southern suburbs of Paris.

History

Administration

Demography

Monuments

• History of the Guinguette S

One owes the popularity of Robinson with ball-restaurants establishments built in large chestnuts. The Valley of Aulnay, field which separates Plessis (Stake) from Châtenay-Malabry is indeed very wooded and in particular in Châtaignier S. In 1848, Joseph Gueusquin, amateur of the accounts of Robinson Crusoé, had the idea to install in the largest chestnuts of the platforms and other huts connected enter they. It establishes there a ball-restaurant under the sign of " Large Robinson". This one was renamed " Arbre" Truth; in 1888. The fashion is launched and all-Paris presses Sundays with Robinson to attend ten guinguettes built between the second moist one 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The line of train is especially prolonged until Robinson and the station of train Seal-Robinson is built in 1895. The guinguettes of Robinson become one of the high places of the festival and attract prestigious guests such as the tsar of Russia and the king d' Espagne.

Most famous guinguettes of Robinson " With Arbre" Truth; " Large Arbre" " the Tree of Roches" " in Great Saint-Eloi" " Fame of the potatoes frites" " Ermitage" …

picturesque (to be made): one went up to the establishments of Robinson with asses and many guinguettes was equipped with systems of pulleys to convey the meals to the platforms located in the branches.

• the Garden city (1924-1939): it belongs to about fifteen garden cities built by Office HBM the the Seine, directed then by Henri Sellier. It is conceived by the architects Maurice Payret-Dortail, Jean Demay, and Jean Festoc, and then includes/understands individual and collective residences (241 at the end of the years 1930), as well as trade.

• Castle

• Park

Events

• First mention of the name of Plessis ( Plessiacus ), commune being next to the town of Chatenay (Castanetum) (839)

• Plessiacus becomes the Plessis-Raoul (1250)
• Construction of the first castle of Plessis (1412) by Jean of $the Hague or Stake of $the Hague.
• Charles Levasseur, adviser of the king and controller of finances, buy the seigniory of the Plessis-Stake (1663). In financial problems, it sells with Louis XIV the castle and its grounds (1682). The king will yield them to his minister, Colbert. This acquisition revêt for Colbert an particular importance because it enables him to assert the rights on water, for the pond and water the jets of its park (Colbert is since 1670 baron of Sceaux).
• Pierre de Montesquiou, lord of Artagnan, Marshal of France and cousin of the Musketeer, repurchases the field in 1699. Buried in 1725 in the vault of the castle, its burial is untraceable today.
• Antoine Moullé, first Mayor of Plessis, is elected in 1790.
• the commune of Plessis-Raoul says Plessis-Stake is renamed Plessis-Freedom in 1793, then becomes again the Plessis-Stake in 1801.
• During the walk of the Russian army on Paris, a not burst bomb falls in front of the Mirrou coffee, opposite the church (this one appears always hung in the frontage of the establishment) (1814).
• James Odier, deputy and par of France, mayor of the Plessis-Stake of 1829 with 1831.
• Gueusquin creates the first Guinguette of Robinson: “Large Robinson” (1848)
• In 1854, Louis Hatchet, celebrates Parisian editor buys the castle and its grounds (currently park Henri-Saddler and garden cities). He will be mayor of the Plessis-Stake and city council man.
• By Presidential decree of the Republic, the Plessis-Stake is famous Plessis-Robinson (1909).
• Release of Plessis-Robinson (August 19th, 1944): the keys of the Town hall are given to Doctor Bailly then president of the local committee of release.

Recent evolutions

Plessis-Robinson is currently engaged in an immense operation of town planning. It began in 2000 by the realization from the Heart from City, recognized like one of the most important installations of the Hauts-de-Seine these last years. The thickening of the city continues with the realization of the new city garden which prolongs the city garden built in the Fifties. It is accompanied by a new market of the Baltard type which intends to maintain in Plessis-Robinson one the most important markets of the Hauts-de-Seine. The city affirms its residential vocation thus.

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