Rueil-Malmaison

Rueil-Malmaison is a Commune Frenchwoman, located in the department of the Hauts-de-Seine and in the area Île-de-France. Its inhabitants are called Rueillois or Rueilloises.

Geography

Rueil-Malmaison is the most extended commune of the Hauts-de-Seine. Bordering of the the Seine, it is bordering on Nanterre, Suresnes, Saint-Cloud, Garches, Vaucresson, That-Saint-Cloud, Bougival, the Croissy-on-Seine and Chatou.

It counts 520 hectares of green areas is more than one third of its total surface area which is of 1454 hectares. This surface is distributed between the Forêt of Malmaison (200 ha), the forest of Cucufa Saint (200 ha) and the various parks and public gardens (120 ha).

Districts

The city is made up of eight “villages”:
  • the Rueil-on-Seine (4 087 inhabitants)
  • Plain-Station (9 230 inhabitants)
  • the Edge-of-Seine (9 122 inhabitants)
  • Center town (14 634 inhabitants)
  • Plateau Mount-Valérien (16 537 inhabitants)
  • Jonchère-Malmaison Saint-Cucufa (2 339 inhabitants)
  • Mazurières (7 538 inhabitants)
  • Buzenval (10 112 inhabitants).

History

The name of the city was initially, at the 12th century, Roialum then Ruellium , Reuil , Ruel , Rueil and since 1928 Rueil-Malmaison (by ministerial decree).

The supposed origin of Rueil is a Celtic name Ritoialo ( ritus , " the gué" , and ialos , " the clairière") or Rialo ( laughed , " the ruisseau" and ialos ). The Celtic root - ialo , " clairière" , in many toponyms in - euil is found: Argenteuil, Verneuil, Neuilly . The addition of Malmaison , which makes it possible to make the distinction with the commune of Rueil-the-Gadelière (28), points out the name of the field become famous under the Consulate and the Empire. The origin of this name is not established, but one evokes sometimes the memory of the exactions Normans on the field (of " Mala Mansio " : house of misfortune or bad house).

Charles the Bald person, towards 870, gave this field to the Abbaye of Saint-Denis. At the end of 12th, the monks Benedictines built a vault dedicated to Saint Cucufa in the old Béranger wood which will become after the 18th century the wood of saint Cucufa .

The monks sold the field in 1635 with the Cardinal of Richelieu, which made there build a beautiful castle, where the court withdrew in 1648 during the wars of the Sling.

January 19th, 1871 proceeded a combat in the neighborhoods of the castle of Buzenval opposing the French troops left Paris and the Prussian soldiers cut off from the heights from Garches (see Bataille of Buzenval).

The blazon of the city represents the castle of the queen Hortense, the mother of Napoleon III, the hydrangeas of the greenhouse of Joséphine and the " N" of Napoleon I {{er}}.

  • 1791 : meeting of territory (park of Buzenval) at the expense of Garches and Vaucresson, correction of limit with Saint-Cloud - transfer of grounds with St-Cloud and Suresnes.

  • 1805 : Statement of delimitation (transfer of grounds with Bougival and That-Saint-Cloud and meeting of a ground of Vaucresson)
  • 1823: transfer of a ground with That-Saint-Cloud - ratification of the transfer of a locality with Bougival.
  • 1871 : Battle of Buzenval
  • 1931: transfer of territory with Suresnes.
  • 1958 : The sign Narrow part-Turpin opens the 1st Supermarché French, with 64 rue d' Estienne d' Orves.
  • 1963 : correction of limit with That-St-Cloud.

History of Rueil

Demography

Administration

Successive mayors

Electing mayors of right-hand side regularly, the voters of Rueil-Malmaison gave the majority of the municipal council to the communist at the time of the Popular front and to the Release.

Administrative division

The city is divided into two canton S:

Rueil-Malmaison belongs to the 7 {{E}} district of the Hauts-de-Seine (formerly coupled with that of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer) with Garches and Saint-Cloud.

Economy, employment

Located at 8 km of Paris and 3 km of the district of businesses of Defense, Rueil-Malmaison has a very good geographical location. It reconciles this advantage with a particularly pleasant framework of life what makes it very gravitational near the companies. It counts some nearly 850 in tertiary sector and 70 one hundred paid more than. The primary sectors and secondary disappeared. Moreover, one whole district their is reserved close to the station the RER has, the Rueil-on-Seine (in the past called Rueil 2000). All these large companies profit from the network of fiberoptics of the operator MCI WorldCom . Several of them, of international repute, established their head office or the seat of their subsidiary company in the commune:

Unemployment rate is of three points lower than the national average (7% instead of 10%). The professional tax brings back 49 € million to the city (situation in 2005).

Monuments

These three fields, different today, formed the field the Impératrice Joséphine when she lived Rueil between 1799 and 1814.
  • Maison of the Père Joseph, 3eminence grise of the Cardinal of Richelieu
  • Église Saint-Pierre Saint-Paul (tombs of Joséphine and Hortense de Beauharnais)
  • Caserne of the Swiss guards
  • Musée of local history
  • old Cimetière
  • the media library Jacques Baumel, 4.300 m ² (conceived by the architect Paul Chemetov)

Culture

  • Euro Jazz Festival, towards mid-June. Jazz band of all the Europe occur downtown on several podiums. Many concerts, in particular on the grass of the park of Wood-Courtyard, parades downtown.
  • Theater Andre Malraux (TAM)

Famous people

  • François Leclerc of Tremblay, known as the father Joseph (1577-1638), had his field in Rueil and died there

  • Richelieu (1585-1642), lived with the castle of the Valley of Ruel
  • Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), lived with the Château of Malmaison of 1799 with its death
  • Felix Tournachon, said Nadar (1820-1910), lived with current the n° 200 of the avenue Paul Doumer
  • Edward Tuck (1842-1938) and his wife Julia Stell, patrons American, lived the field of Vermont to Rueil
  • Georges Feydeau (1862-1921), author, spent the 2 last years of his life in a private hospital to Rueil for mental health disorders which had with syphilis
  • Willy Maury (1887-1955), Belgian actor, lived in Rueil
  • Marcel Jouhandeau (1888-1979), writer, died in Rueil
  • Loulou Gasté (1908-1995), type-setter, lived and died in Rueil
  • Jacques Faizant (1918-2006), draftsman of press, lived Rueil
  • Line Renaud (1928-), singer and actress, lives in Rueil
  • Georges To bleat (1946-), actor of theater, lives in Rueil
  • Jean-Pierre Pernaut (1950-), journalist and presenter TV
  • Laurent Boyer (1958-), stimulating TV and radio & Alice Dona (1946-), singer, live Rueil
  • Cathy (alias " Super Nanny"), presenter of the television program Super Nanny
  • Valerie Damidot (1965-), presenter of the emission of M6, D&CO.
  • Jean Dujardin (1972-), French actor, was born in Rueil
  • Delphine Chanéac (1978-), mannequin and actress, was born in Rueil

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Events

  • Festival of the Vintage S at the beginning of October (the commune and the brotherhood of closed of Rueil-Buzenval maintain 2000 m ² Vigne - Cépage Sauvignon)

  • Euro Jazz Festival, towards mid-June. Jazz band of all the Europe occur downtown on several podiums. Many concerts, in particular on the grass of the park of Wood-Courtyard, parades downtown.

External bonds

  • Official site of Rueil-Malmaison
  • House of tourism of Rueil-Malmaison

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