Versailles

Versailles is a common French, located in the department of the Yvelines and the area Île-de-France. Created of all parts by the will of the king Louis XIV, Versailles which lost since the Revolution its statute of royal city to become the chief town of a department, is today a residential and tertiary city of the Parisian, known outskirts of the city especially for its castle, tourist destination of foreground.

Its inhabitants is called the Versaillais .

Geography

Situation

The commune of Versailles is with nineteen kilometers in the south-west of Paris. Although it is the Chef-lieu, it is completely offset compared to the department of Yvelines, since it is in fact bordering on the department of the Hauts-de-Seine.

The communes bordering are Vaucresson, Marnes-the-Vain and City-with Avray in the North-East (all three communes of the Hauts-de-Seine), Viroflay in the east, Vélizy-Villacoublay and Jouy-in-Josas in south-east, Buc in the south, Guyancourt in south-west, Saint-Cyr-the School in the west, Bailly and Rocquencourt in the North-West and Chesnay in north.

Site

The communal territory is on a calcareous, marshy plate at the origin because of the cover of silt argillaceous, located between 100 and 150 meters of altitude, bordering in the south the valley relatively boxed of the Bièvre, surrounded by heights towards south-west and the North-East and being prolonged towards the west by the Plaine of Versailles.

This site does not have any important river, rare enough characteristic for a town of this importance. It is drained by two brooks, the Ru of Marivel, which runs towards the east and directly joined the the Seine with Sevres, and the Ru of Gally which joined towards the west the Mauldre with Beynes. These rivers were modified by the urbanization: the course of the Ru of Gally was amputee during the construction of the castle and of the digging of the Large Channel of which he is the natural emissary, the Ru of Marivel today became an entirely covered sewer.

Occupation of the territory

Although strongly urbanized, the communal territory of Versailles counts more than 50% of green areas or natural. In addition to the gardens located in the city, these spaces include/understand the park of the castle of Versailles which occupies the western part of the commune, the Forêt of Versailles in the southern part, relatively parcelled out, and a fringe of the Forêt of False-Re-fixing towards the limit is. The common one counts 350 hectares of forest on the whole

The urbanized part of Versailles includes/understands six principal districts:

the district of the Building sites, with the station of the same name.
the Saint-Louis district, near to the castle, which include/understand a historical zone, and where the cathedral Saint-Louis is, the Salle of the play to palm, the Potager of the king and the Pièce of water of Swiss the;
the Notre-Dame district, symmetrical of the Saint-Louis district compared to the axis of the castle, where one can see the church Notre-Dame and traverse the commercial street of the Parish.
districts of Montreuil, Porchefontaine and Clagny-Glatigny, primarily residential.

One of the historical quarters, connecting in full center town that of Notre-Dame and that of Saint-Louis and whose name disappeared today is the district Montbauron (energy of the Place of Weapons to the “Mount Bauron” and ranging between the avenue of Paris and that of Saint-Cloud)

It is necessary to quote moreover the districts of Jussieu Petits-Bois, Picardy and the district of Satory.

The residential area continues in north and the east towards the communes of Chesnay and of Viroflay, forming a continuous agglomeration, but is relatively isolated from the other communes, in particular by the park of the castle in the west, which is prolonged by the plain of Versailles, site classified and protected from the urbanization.

Pollution of the grounds

The commune includes/understands a site listed in the database of the ministry for ecology relating to the sites and grounds polluted (or potentially polluted) calling an action of the public authorities, with preventive measure or curative (BASOL). It is about the old factory with Gaz of Versailles, brought into service in 1875 and closed in 1954, whose site is partially since occupied by the installations of the Center of studies and formation of Gaz de France. The site, located in a residential area, was cleansed in 2003 at the time of the construction of an underground car park and is not any more the object of particular monitoring.

Transportation routes

The road service road is ensured since the origin by the road from Paris in Chartres, become the Trunk road 10, downgraded in secondary road 10 of Viroflay to Trappes. In Versailles, this road ends in the place of Weapons in front of the castle, under the name of avenue of Paris, and continuous towards the west with the southern edge of the park of Versailles passing between the castle and the Pièce of water of Swiss the. The accesses to the city are nowadays assured by a series ways to highway characteristics. It is:

in north the highway A13 (highway of Normandy) whose exchangers 5 and 6 give access to Versailles. It is prolonged by the highway A12 which circumvents the commune by the west.
in the south the Trunk road 286 which skirts the district of Satory and connects the highway A86, with the Colbert bridge, the Trunk road 12 with the Wood exchanger of Arcy,
in the east, the western section of a86 highway, in construction, in the form of a tunnel including/understanding two superimposed lanes, whose startup is envisaged in December 2009.

On the railway level, the commune is served by five Gare S of travellers (Versailles - Building sites, Versailles-Bank-Right-hand side, Versailles-Bank-Left, Montreuil and Porchefontaine). These stations ensure a very good service road with the capital giving access directly to various districts of Paris like to Defense. Most important is the station of the Building sites which is in the center of an important railway star. This one should be reinforced in the future with reopening with the traffic of the Ligne of Large Belt between Versailles and Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer.

Heraldic

Etymology

The name of “Versailles” appears for the first time in a charter, the year 1038, abbey of the Holy Father of Chartres in which the name of a local lord is quoted, Hugo de Versaillis. The origin of this name is not known. The most probable assumption consists in attaching it to “versail”, which as old French indicated a cleared ground. This term probably comes from the Latin , versare , to pour, turn over. The term, the 11th century, would have indicated at the origin of the grounds Labor ées (turned over).

At the time of its creation at the 17th century, the new city, which corresponds to the current Notre-Dame district, was sometimes called “Villeneuve Saint-Louis” in homage to its creator, but it is finally the name of the castle, Versailles, which prevailed.

At the time of the Revolution, the commune had proposed with Convention to rename Versailles in “Cradle of Freedom” but had to retract in front of the reserves of most of the population.

History

Origins

The site of Versailles was probably not inhabited at the time prehistoric insofar as no archaeological vestige there were found, however as the grounds were strongly upset during the building work of the castle and of the installation of the park, certain traces could be destroyed. In the immediate surroundings, covered gone of the Neolithic time, pertaining to civilization “Seine-et-Marne” were found at the Pond-the-City and Marly-the-King.

At the time of Gallo-Roman, the site was on the layout of the way carrying out of Paris to Normandy via Villepreux and Neauphle-the-Castle.

The first attested mention of Versailles dates from the year 1038. A certain Hugues of Versailles Hugo de Versalliis is quoted in a charter of the Holy Father abbey of Chartres. It would be the first known lord of Versailles. The second allusion appears in 1065 in an act by which a certain Geoffroy de Gometz founded on this date the priory of Bazainville, not far from Houdan, that it gave to the abbey of Marmoutier Turns. To ensure of the regular and sufficient resources, it grants several grounds and privileges to him, with in particular “three Prébende S in Versailles from which one is in domino ”. Of these three emoluments canonic, one can put forth the assumption that in domino concerned the lord of Versailles, the two others of the tourangelle abbey. The village of Versailles would thus have been born about the middle from the eleventh century from a double initiative seigneuriale and nun.

In the Feudal system of medieval France , the lords of Versailles were subordinates directly to the king, without intermediate suzerain between them and the king. They were not then of a very important row. At the end of the 11th century, the first village had been established near a medieval manor and around the Saint-Julien church. The Saint-Julien parish of Versailles is quoted in a charter of 1084. Its agricultural activity and its position on the road of Paris to Dreux and the Normandy made a prosperous village of it, especially at the end of the 12th century known as the “century of holy Louis”, which was one boom in the north of France, marked by the construction of the Cathédrale S Gothic S. the 14th century brought the Black Death and the Guerre One hundred Year old, with their processions of died and destruction. At the end of the War One hundred Year old, at the 15th century, the village started to be rebuilt with a population of only 100 inhabitants. At that time two other villages existed in the territory of the current commune: Choisy-with-oxen and Trianon. They disappeared thereafter included in the park from the castle. The Choisy-with-Ox name recalls that this village was on the way by which the ox herds coming from Normandy were led to Paris.

At the 14th century, Gilles of Versailles exerts the load of Baillif of the king.

In 1561, Martial de Loménie, Secretary of State to finances of the king Charles IX, became only lord of Versailles. It obtained the authorization to establish four annual fairs and a weekly market Thursday. The population of Versailles reached 500 inhabitants then. Martial de Loménie was assassinated during the Massacre of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (August 24th 1572) leaving only minors.

In 1575, Albert de Gondi, duke of Retz, originating in Florence arrived to France with Catherine de Médicis, bought the Seigneurie of Versailles. Consequently, Versailles was the property of Gondi, a family of rich and influential lawyers to the “Parlement” of Paris. The grandson of Albert, Henri de Gondi, which became cardinal, accepted on several occasions the king Henri IV in his manor of Versailles. In the years 1610, Gondi invited several times the young king Louis XIII with shooting parties in the vast forests of Versailles.

The time of the kings

In 1623, the king Louis XIII makes build an appointment of hunting on a ground of seven hundred and seventeen arpents (that is to say approximately 350 hectares) bought with various owners. It is in this first castle that was held the Day of Dupes the November 10th 1630.

April 8th, 1632, Louis XIII buys the totality of the seigniory of Versailles to his last lord, Jean-François de Gondi, archbishop of Paris. It is the decisive turn in the installation of the royalty in Versailles. In 1634, the work entrusted to the architect Philibert is completed Roy. The first manor is rebuilt and increased on the spot in the style “Louis XIII”. With died the king, in 1643, the village of Versailles had changed still little.

With the installation of the king Louis XIV and his court, the May 6th 1682, the small city will know a destiny blazing during the reign of this last with a population of approximately 30 000 inhabitants with his death and will continue to grow bigger under its successors until reaching 50 000 hearts when the Révolution arrives.

The XIXe century

January 3rd, 1805, the pope Black and white VII, come in Paris to crown Napoleon, is invited in Versailles. It was accepted by the first bishop of Versailles, Mgr To cart Rock, with the cathedral Saint-Louis then blesses the crowd gathered in front of the castle.

The importance of this big city consequently will decline, whereas it is given up by the capacity. This decline will cease after 1871, following the insurrection of the Commune of Paris, date on which the government of Thiers settles in Versailles, situation which will perdurera until in 1879.

The city is occupied by the Prussian troops starting from September 19th, 1870, while Paris is besieged. The occupation will last 174 days until March 12th, 1871. Versailles must face heavy requisitions. Being opposed to excessive requests, the mayor, Charles-Victor Chevrey-Branch, and three of his advisers are imprisoned on December 31st, 1870 and are released the next on January 6th after the tradesmen paid the ransom. The king of Prussia, Guillaume Ier settles in the castle of Versailles and is made proclaim emperor of Germany the January 18th 1871 in the Galerie of the Ices.

At the time of the Common , the government of Thiers flees the riot in Paris and settles in Versailles on March 18th, 1871, followed by a crowd of Parisian of which the number was estimated at more than 70.000 by the mayor whereas the city counted only 44.000 inhabitants with the census of 1866. A hemicycle is built in 1875 in the wing of the South of the castle to accommodate the House of Commons while the Senate sits at the Opera. The two rooms vote on June 19th, 1879 their transfer to Paris.

November 18th, 1777, is inaugurated, street of the Tanks, the theater of Versailles, one of oldest of France, on the initiative of Miss Montansier.

Consequently, Versailles will evolve/move like a provincial town with, however, all the ostentation of an important tourist city. She will know even a renewal of celebrity at the end of the First World War, during the signature of the various treaties.

The contemporary time

On February 17th and 19th 1986, the first top of the Francophonie was taken place in Versailles, in the castle, with in the chair François Mitterrand. It joined together, in addition to France, of the representative of 42 countries, including sixteen Heads of State and ten heads of government.

Today, with the growth of the suburbs of Paris, Versailles, which knew a strong economic and demographic expansion, is included in the Paris and its suburbs. The role of Versailles like administrative and legal center was reinforced in the years 1960 and 1970 and the city became the principal center of the western suburbs of Paris.

Demography

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Administration and capacity

Versailles is the seat of the Préfecture Yvelines, sub-prefecture of Versailles and three cantons. Versailles was indicated like prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise as of the creation of the departments in March 1790. At the time of the reform which led to the bursting of the Seine-et-Oise in January 1968, it preserved this role for the department of Yvelines which accounts for approximately 40% in surface of the old department. Versailles is, since 2002, the city centers Communauté of communes of the Large Park, in reference to the large park of Louis XIV, who gathers approximately 150.000 inhabitants of Yvelines and, since 2003, those of a commune of the the Essonne, Bièvres).

Since 1972, Versailles is the seat of one of the thirty academies, administrative units of the ministry in charge of education, covering the west of old the Seine-et-Oise, i.e. the the Essonne, the Hauts-de-Seine, the Yvelines and the Val-d'Oise.

In 1975, Versailles became the seat of a Court of Appeal from which the district extends on the departments from Eure-et-Loir, of the Hauts-de-Seine, the Val-d'Oise and the Yvelines.

Versailles is also a Diocèse of the Catholic church, created in 1790, and attached to the Archidiocèse of Paris.

Although Paris always remained the official capital of France, Versailles was on several occasions the effective seat of the central capacity and the capital in fact of France:

of May 1682, dates to which the king Louis XIV transferred the court and the government from Paris in Versailles, until September 1715 (death of Louis XIV), when the regent Philippe of Orleans decided to settle with Paris,
of June 1722, with the return to Versailles of the court of the king Louis XV in October 1789, when the king Louis XVI was forced by the people to go back to Paris.
of March 20th, 1871, when the government of the Third Republic and the National Assembly took refuge in Versailles, fleeing the insurrection of the Commune of Paris, until November 1879, with the election of Jules Grévy with the presidency of the Republic which marks the return to Paris of the government and the Parliament.

Versailles is also an important town of Garnison, role which she inherited the period of monarchy. The organizations of the army and defense represent approximately 7000 civil and military employment, often highly qualified, and essentially located in the district of Satory. Among the military organizations present in Versailles, one can quote in particular:

the central management of the Service of infrastructure of defense (DCSID),
the Engineering service of the buildings, fortifications and work (STBFT),
the 5 {{E}} regiment of the genius (which includes/understands a single company in the French Army, the 10th CTVF, company of work of railways),
the technical Section of the Army (STAT),
the Central management of the material of the Army (DCMAT),
grouping armor-plated of Anti-riot police (GBGM),
it grouping of safety and intervention of the national police (GSIGN), which includes/understands inter alia GIGN,
the military academy of the music of the Army (CMMAT).

Municipality

The Municipal council account currently 53 members, of which the mayor and fifteen assistant. Elected in 2001, the city council men share in 40 elected officials of the list “Union for Versailles” (parliamentary majority), led by Etienne Pinte, 7 elected officials of the list “Union for the revival of Versailles” (various right-hand side), led by Henry de Lesquen, and 6 elected officials of the list “the plural left for Versailles” (left plain), led by Maryvonne Coulloch-Katz.

Mayors of Versailles

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Town planning

The town of Versailles, born from the will of a king, is an artificial creation. There remains nothing the old village which was destroyed to allow the town-planning. Its plan is articulated around the place of Weapons, located in front of the castle, and from where radiate three broad avenues bordered of plane trees and laid out in range: the avenue of Paris in the center, in the axis of the castle, the avenue of Saint-Cloud in north and the avenue of Seals in the south (the latter being interropue by the railway installations of the station of the Building sites). Between these avenues the buildings of the royal Stables are. On both sides of this central axis are the two districts created under Louis XIV, the Saint-Louis district, and the Notre-Dame district, organized in checkerwork around a central “square”.

Versailles was at the XVIIIe century, according to the standards of the time, a very modern city, which was used as model for the construction of Washington.

Today, the commune is subjected to particular constraints of Urbanisme, which had with the existence of a “safeguarded sector” which covers most of the district Saint-Louis and Notre-Dame. In addition, two thirds of the commune are managed by official organizations (Public corporation of the museum and national field of Versailles, National office of the forests, armed), so that the municipality with the full responsibility for the policy of town planning only on 728 hectares (out of 2618 ha).

Cemeteries

The Town of Versailles counts four cemeteries: the Notre-Dame cemetery, the Saint-Louis cemetery, the Cemetery of Gonards and the cemetery of Montreuil.

Economy

Activities

The saving in Versailles is characterized by the prevalence of the tertiary sector which represents nearly 84% of employment.

It is marked by three principal branches of industry:

the Tourism primarily related to the castle which receives three million visitors per annum,
the administrative functions and commercial, related to the statute of the city, chief town of Yvelines and seat of various administrations,
linked activities with the defense, localized mainly with Satory.

Versailles is the seat of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Versailles-Valley-in Oise-Yvelines. It manages the port.

Versailles is also the seat of the Regional court of trade and Paris industry - Ile de France. Employment

Principal companies :

Nexter, public group of armament established with the Camp of Satory, seat of the group and research center and development in the field of the tank light S and armoured tanks.
Citroen Sport is also in Satory.

Teaching

Versailles is the seat of a academy, whose district recovers the four departments of the Essonne, the Hauts-de-Seine, the Val-d'Oise and Yvelines, which add up more than six million inhabitants.

Elementary teaching

Versailles counts 47 schools of the elementary teaching (nursery schools and elementary), including 39 public and 8 deprived, which accommodates approximately 10.000 pupils (2007).

Public corporations

Elementary schools

School of Pershing application, six classes, 6 rue Richard Mique
School Lully-Vauban, eighteen classes including ten with arranged schedules of music (CHAM), 87 avenue de Paris

Secondary education

Private establishments

College S

College private Notre-Dame, located at 34, boulevard de la Reine
private College Holy Jean Hulst, located at 26, rue du marshal of Lattre de Tassigny
private College “Sacred Heart”, located at 03, rue des Bourdonnais

College S

Notre-Dame of Grandchamp, located at 97, rue Royale
Holy Jean Hulst, located at 26, rue du marshal of Lattre de Tassigny
Holy Vincent of Paul, located at 44, avenue de Saint-Cloud
general-purpose College “Châtaigners”, located at 11 bis, avenue Jean Jaurès

Colleges and colleges out-contract

Institute Jeanne d' Arc, located with 35, rue Rémilly
Course Of Versailles, located at 28, rue Albert Joly
Technical training school of data processing, accountancy and secretariat, located at 15, rue du Général Leclerc

Public corporations

Colleges

College Pierre de Nolhac, located at 10, rue de Limoges
College Raymond Poincaré, located at 2, place Raymond Poincaré
College Jean Philippe Branch, located at the 1, roundabout of Condamines
Collège of Clagny, located at 7, rue Victor Bart
Collège Shakes, located at 73, avenue de Saint-Cloud

Lycées

Lycée Shakes, located at 73, avenue de Saint-Cloud
Lycée the Heather, located at 31, avenue de Paris
Lycée Jules Ferry, located at 29, rue du Maréchal Joffre
Lycée Marie-Curie, located at 70, avenue de Paris
Vocational school Jacques Prévert, located at 88, avenue des Etats

Higher education

Preparatory classes

Holy École Genevieve (“Ginette”), located at 2, rue de l'École des Postes
Lycée Shakes, located at 73, avenue de Saint-Cloud
Lycée the Heather, located at 31, avenue de Paris
Lycée Jules Ferry, located at 29, rue du Maréchal Joffre
Lycée Notre-Dame of Grandchamp, located at 97, rue Royale

specialized Écoles

École of architecture of Versailles, located at 5, avenue de Sceaux
Regional center of professional training of lawyers within the competence of the Court of Appeal of Versailles (CRFPA of Versailles), located 9 rue des États-Généraux
international Institute of higher learning of the perfume and the cosmetic , located at 36, rue du Parc de Clagny,
3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the landscape, located at 4, rue Hardy,
CNAM Versailles:
Institute of sciences and technology of Yvelines (ISTY), located at 45, avenue des Etats and belonging to the university

University

University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines (USVQ), whose central services are located at 55, avenue de Paris

Sport S

Cycling

Versailles was 16 times stage city of the Tour de France between 1958 and 1989, including three times, in 1961,1972 and 1973 at the time of a stage against the watch in loop. In 1989, the last stage, a against-the-watch connecting Versailles to Paris, remained famous to have seen the final defeat of the French Laurent Fignon, to have left in yellow, vis-a-vis the American Greg LeMond, for 8 seconds after more than 3.000 km of race.

Oar

The Nautical Circle is the one of oldest sporting companies of Versailles: association " Nautical circle of Versailles" was created in 1908. The purpose of she carries on her activity since the origin on the Large Channel of the Castle of Versailles and is the development of the oar in all her forms. The Large Channel regularly accommodates the great national competitions or international, organized by CN Versailles.

Rugby

The practice of the oval balloon starts in 1893, when pupils of the Lycée Shakes meet within the Athletic Association of the College Shakes to practice the " football-rugby" , like one says still at the time. More than one century after, the sport is always practiced in Versailles, within Rugby Club of Versailles, but also in the school teams (in particular in Saint Jean Hulst). Since 2003, each Saturday, dads and their boys find themselves during playing Rugby within " together; Father and Rugby" Wire;.

Horsemanship

Extremely of its 1.000 members, the Horse Club of Versailles is old of more than 50 years and accommodates each year a national competition, but also of the regional and departmental contests. The Town of Versailles also accommodates the Equestrian Academy of Bartabas, installed in the Large Stable and which is at the same time a training center that a place where are given of the representations of spectacles equestrian.

Rally

To plusior taken again, Versailles was town of departure of the rally Paris-Dakar, the competitors starting of the place of weapons, owes the castle

Culture

Monuments

the Castle of Versailles

Museums

Musée Lambinet
Musée of fit with body
the Osmothèque, “the alive memory of the perfumes”

Events

The municipality organizes every year in June the Month Molière during which are played in the streets of the city of the scenes of the parts of the author.

Personalities related to the commune

the kings

Louis XIII (1601-1643), made build in 1624 a first hunting lodge in Versailles, and becomes the lord of Versailles by repurchasing the field with Jean-François de Gondi in 1631.
Louis XIV (1638-1715), born with Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, king de France of 1661 to 1715, died in Versailles of gangrene on September 1st, 1715. It made increase the castle, initially devoted to festivals, as from 1668, before transferring the court in 1682 to it, making of Versailles the capital of the kingdom.
Louis XV (1710-1774), born with Versailles, king de France of 1715 to 1774. It made return the Court to Versailles in 1722 and made build Small Trianon for Madam de Pompadour. HE died of variola to the castle of Versailles on May 10th, 1774.
Louis XVI (1754-1793), born with Versailles, king de France of 1774 to 1791 then king of the French of 1791 to 1792. It was constrained by crowd to leave Versailles for Tileries on October 5th, 1789.
Louis XVII (1785-1795) was born in Versailles on March 27th, 1785.
Louis XVIII (1755-1824), born with Versailles, king de France of April 1814 in March 1815 and 1815 to 1824. It passed its childhood to the castle of Versailles.
Charles X (1757-1836), born with Versailles, king de France of 1824 to 1830

Politicians and military

Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier (1753-1815) chief of staff of the Large army of Napoleon.
Agathe de Rambaud (1764-1853) was born and married in Versailles. It raised the Dolphin of its birth to its imprisonment.
Général Lazare Shakes (1768-1797)
Général Empire Gaspard Gourgaud (1783-1852)
Auguste de Rambaud (1786-1834), police chief of the wars, secretary close friend of prince de Poix, Philippe Louis Marc Antoine de Noailles (1752-1819), governor of the Royal House of Versailles and Trianon, lieutenant general, marguillier of honor of the parish of Saint Louis and general secretary of the government of Versailles of 1814 to 1819.
Ali, Louis Etienne Saint-Denis, known as the Mameluke (1788-1856) of Napoleon
François Achille Bazaine (1811-1864), born in Versailles in 1811, marshal of Napoleon III, it was judged in Large Trianon in 1873.
Ernest de Rambaud (1819-1899), polytechnician, colonel, director of the hospital services of the Croix-rouge, married and was buried in Versailles.
Alexandre Millerand (1859-1943), president of the Republic of 1620 to 1924, lived in Versailles of 1910 until its death on April 6th, 1943.
Etienne Pinte, born in 1939 in Belgium, mayor of Versailles since 1995.

Others

Cardinal Pierre Gerlier (1880 - 1965), archbishop of Lyon (1937 - 1965).
Charles-Michel of the Sword, known as the abbot of the Sword, which is at the origin of the search for a language of signs for the people reached of deafness, was born in Versailles in 1712.

Artists and writers

Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726), organist and type-setter, official musician of Louis XIV, he was in particular royal choirmaster and superintendent of the chamber music. He died in Versailles.
Miss Montansier (1730-1820); actress and director of theater, made build the Théâtre Montansier, inaugurated in 1977.
Jean-François Ducis (1733-1816), poet, born and died in Versailles, known for her adaptations of parts of Shakespeare. He was elected with the French Academy with the armchair of Voltaire in 1778.
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), the “sculptor of the Lights”, was been born in Versailles where he passed most of his youth. The Musée Lambinet bore its name of its creation in 1922 until its transfer in its current buildings in 1929.
Ferdinand de Lesseps, born in Versailles in 1805

Raimundo de Madrazo there Garreta (1841-1920), realistic painter and Spanish portraitist. Settled in 1914 in Versailles where he died six years later.
Ralph Messac, writer and journalist born in Versailles in 1924.
Camille Auguste Mercier (1848-1881), organizer of the popular Library of Versailles.
Denis Podalydès, born on April 22nd, 1963 in Versailles, scenario writer, actor, French director (brother of Bruno Podalydès)
Michel Gondry, born on May 8th, 1963 in Versailles, French realizer of cinema and musician
Laurence Boccolini, born on May 8th, 1963 in Versailles, stimulating French of radio and television
Jean-Benoit Dunckel, born on September 7th, 1969 in Versailles, musician, member of the group Air
Nicolas Anelka, professional footballer, born on March 14th, 1979 in Versailles
Fuzati, born in 1981 with Versailles, musician of Rap

famous People deceased in Versailles

Marchioness of Pompadour.
Louis Mottet Nickel silver, General Police chief responsible for the colonies, on March 13rd, 1811.
Ambroise Louis d' Hozier, on August 24th, 1846.
Auguste Warnier, appointed of Algiers, deceased on March 15th, 1875.
Amédée d' Allonville, the last of the counts d' Allonville, deceased on September 6th, 1885.

Twinnings

, to 26 km of Saint-Pétersbourg

Cinema

Films made to Versailles:

If Versailles to me were told… Sacha Guitry, in 1954, with itself, Gerard Philippe, Bourvil, Brigitte Bardot, etc
Versailles left bank of Bruno Podalydès, in 1992, with Denis Podalydès, Isabelle Candelier, Philippe Uchan, etc
God alone sees me (Versailles-Building sites) of Bruno Podalydès, in 1998, with Denis Podalydès, Isabelle Candelier, etc

See too

History of Versailles
Castle of Versailles
Gardens of Versailles
Forest of Versailles
Flat Town hall of Versailles
of Versailles
Common Images of Versailles
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