See also: Saint-Mandé (homonymy)

Saint-Mandé is a common French, located in the department of the the Valley-of-Marne and the area Île-de-France. Its inhabitants is called the Saint-Mandéennes and the Saint-Mandéens .

Origin of the name

Saint Maudez was an abbot of Breton origin , born at the 6th century. A relic was brought back on the site of future Saint-Mandé to the 10th century, and a vault was built there to honor it.

The currency of the city east “ Cresco and floresco ”, which means “I grow and I flowered”.

History

At the end of the 11th century, it is only one hamlet of some houses grouped around the vault. It is necessary to await the construction of a priory of Benedictines depending on the Abbaye Saint Magloire of Paris, so that a village of a hundred houses is constituted, attached to the commune of Charenton-Saint-Maurice. In 1274, a wall enclosing is built on the initiative of Philippe Bold the which wishes to close the Bois of Vincennes, then royal field of hunting. The city is rebuilt then along the wall and of the ditch named “Chaussiée of Estanc”.

At the 14th century is set up the Turret, a advanced defense of the Château of Vincennes. It will leave its name to the district where it was. At the 16th century, a castle of which it does not remain no vestige today sees following one another the lords of Orgemont, Nicolaï, and Bérulle.

In 1654, Fouquet, superintendent of finances of Louis XIV buys the property of Catherine of Beauvais, chambermaid of Anne of Austria and initiator in love with the young person Louis XIV. This luxurious residence surrounded by signed gardens Ours precedes already Be worth-the-Viscount. One sees there passing the large ones: Mazarin, the duke of Orleans, Henriette de France, Henriette of England, the king Louis XIV, and artists: Brown the, the Fountain, Madam de Sévigné, Crow, Molière. When Fouquet is stopped by Colbert in 1661, its field is put at bag, confiscated then sold in 1705 at a religious community.

Saint-Mandé becomes an autonomous commune in 1790. If this one crosses without notorious event the 19th century then the 20th century, it is however mutilated on several occasions: in 1840 by the fortifications of Paris, in 1860 by the Line of Vincennes (the current layout of the RER), then in 1929 when the territory of wood is attached to Paris. In the years 1960, one assists with the construction of the ring road, and, a few years ago, with that of the anti-noise walls which border it.

Behind this concrete rampart, Saint-Mandé can preserve the middle-class buildings and the private mansions which were built at the end of the 19th century.

Geography

Saint-Mandé has for only communes bordering: Vincennes, Montreuil-sous-Bois and 12 {{E}} and 20 {{E}} districts of Paris.

The commune of Saint-Mandé extends only on 92 ha, because in particular of the historical cutback of the district of Beautiful-Air of Paris at the 19th century and of the administrative fastening of the Bois of Vincennes, of which it had the dependence until 1929, in Paris. A consequence of the small current surface of Saint-Mandé is the mechanical increase in the population density, which with more than 21.000 people to the km is one of highest of Europe, but however similar to the 12th district of Paris bordering.

The commune of Saint-Mandé is crossed by a major North-South axis, the avenue of the de Gaulle General, and an important East-West axis the avenue of Paris or RN 34. One can quote another historical and important street of the city which is the Chaussée of the Pond which skirts the wood of Vincennes on the level of the Lac of Saint-Mandé.

Demography

Administration

The current mayor of Saint-Mandé is Patrick Beaudouin (UMP) which succeeded in 1995 Robert-Andre Vivien. One can notice that only five (almost four) mayors directed the municipality of Saint-Mandé during the 20th century.

Economy

Saint-Mandé accommodates the National Geographical Institut (or IGN), which has one of the cartographic funds most important of France and phototèque of more than 3,5 million air photographs taken of 1921 to our days, the unit being placed at the disposal of the public.

The city lodges three important medical institutions:

  • the Hospital of instruction of the armies Bégin.
  • the Institute the Valley Mandé (in the past the departmental Institute of the blind men transferred to Saint-Mandé in 1889) for the promotion and the readjustment of the blind men.
  • social SAMU of Paris is installed since December 1996 in the Hospice Saint-Michel builds in 1830 and attached to Paris in 1929.

Tourist places

  • Monuments:
the Notre-Dame Church, built between 1883 and 1885 with 84, avenue du Général de Gaulle.
the Bégin Hospital, built between 1855 and 1858 with 69, avenue de Paris.
the House of guard, a sompteuse 44, half-timbered house of the 16th century of the Fitted Pond (privative house).
in the northern cemetery, the funerary stele of Juliette Drouet which was the faithful mistress of Victor Hugo.

  • national geographical Institute:

Map library and Photothèque main roads, 2/4 avenue Pasteur

  • Zones of walks:

the Lake Saint-Mandé, in the Bois of Vincennes
the Zoological gardens of Vincennes is bordering on Saint-Mandé

Personalities related to Saint-Mandé

Heraldic

Blazon of the town of Saint-Mandé:

“Quartered: with the first of money to the crawling squirrel of mouths; with the second of azure to the turret accompanied by its before-wall put in fasce, the sand money whole, built and openwork; with the third of azure with three fasces heavy showers of money, accompanied at a peak by a crescent by same; with the fourth of mouths to the gold rafter accompanied by three serrated rollers of spur by same. ”

Transport

  • Like by several drunk lines of the RATP

Twinnings

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