Bougival

Bougival
12th-century Notre-Dame Church
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Location within Île-de-France region  Bougival
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Yvelines
Arrondissement	Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Intercommunality	Coteaux de Seine
Mayor	Aline Pascal (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	23–166 m (75–545 ft)
Land area1	2.76 km2 (1.07 sq mi)
Population2	8,532  (2006)
- Density	3,091 /km2 (8,010 /sq mi)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Bougival is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris 15.3 km (9.5 mi) from the center.

The remains of the Machine de Marly are located in Bougival and the commune was also the site where many of the French Masters (including Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, and Auguste Renoir) painted country scenes. Today in Bougival, painting sites are marked by historical placards along the Seine. Georges Bizet composed Carmen in his house at the edge of the Seine in Bougival.

People

In the 19th century, Bougival emerged as a fashionable suburb of Paris. Pauline Viardot had a villa there, as did her paramour Ivan Turgenev, who died in the town in 1883. Bougival was also known as the "Cradle of Impressionism" during the Belle Époque. Painters Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Sisley among others painted the light, sky, and water of this area. Alexandre Dumas, fils set parts of his novel The Lady of the Camellias in Bougival.

The Junior division of the British School of Paris (formerly the English School of Paris) is located in Bougival. Prior to the English School, it was a Catholic all-girls school called Marymount in the 1960s. It was reported that the Germans occupied the estate during World War II, along with the nuns that lived there, due to the estate's vantage point of the Seine River.

Transport

The locks of the River Seine at Bougival

Bougival is served by Bougival station on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line. This station is located at the border between the commune of Bougival and the commune of La Celle-Saint-Cloud, on the La Celle-Saint-Cloud side of the border.

Two multiple locks on the River Seine are located in Bougival.

Celebrities

The town is home to celebrities including Darco, Frank Alamo, Guillaume Depardieu, Jean-Louis Aubert, Michel Rocard, Flavie Flament, Laurent Garnier, Jean-Marie Hullot, Jean Michel Jarre, Benjamin Castaldi and Gilbert Montagné are residents of Bougival. Ronaldinho left in 2003. Ivan Turgenev died in Bougival in 1883 as well as Georges Bizet later in 1875.

See also

• Communes of the Yvelines department

References

• INSEE

External links

• 360 panoramas (French)
  

  

  The Seine at Bougival, painted by Alfred Sisley in 1876

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Bal à Bougival, 1883