Châtenay-Malabry
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Location within Île-de-France region
 Châtenay-Malabry
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| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Hauts-de-Seine |
| Arrondissement | Antony |
| Intercommunality | Hauts de Bièvre |
| Mayor | Georges Siffredi (2008–2014) |
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| Elevation | 104 m (341 ft) avg. |
| Land area1 | 6.38 km2 (2.46 sq mi) |
| Population2 | 32,379 (2006) |
| - Density | 5,075 /km2 (13,140 /sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 92019/ 92290 |
| 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. | |
Coordinates: 48°45′55″N 2°16′41″E / 48.7653°N 2.2781°E
Châtenay-Malabry is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 10.8 km (6.7 mi) from the center of Paris.
The commune includes the valley la vallée aux loups with green forests and pretty houses including the estate of French writer Chateaubriand. It also includes the Butte Rouge, its most populated area. The Garden City in the Butte Rouge, the Cité Jardins, is one of the earliest housing at moderated rents (HLM).
Châtenay is the location of École Centrale Paris, of an UFR de Pharmacie (Faculty of Pharmacy) and of French national laboratory of doping detection. It was also for many years the home of the world-renown Croux horticultural nursery. The high-speed TGV Atlantique crosses the city through a tunnel covered by a park called Coulée verte (greenway).
Since 31 December 2002, it is part of the Communauté d'agglomération des Hauts de Bièvre
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[edit] History
Originally called simply Châtenay, the name of the commune became officially Châtenay-Malabry in 1920.
The name Châtenay comes from castellanum = petit château (little castle) and Malabry comes from a deformation of badly located, spoiled ground.
[edit] Transportation
Châtenay-Malabry is served by Robinson station on Paris RER line B. This station is located at the border between the commune of Châtenay-Malabry and the commune of Sceaux, on the Sceaux side of the border.
[edit] Personalities
- Voltaire spent time at Chatenay in 1719, and was probably born out of wedlock there in 1694
- François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) writer, politician and diplomat
- Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907), French poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature, 1901
- Jean Fautrier (1898–1964), painter and sculptor
- Emmanuel Mounier (1905–1950), Christian philosopher
- Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005), Christian philosopher
- Jérôme Rothen (born 1978), French international football player
- Clémence Poésy (born 1982), actress and model
- Hatem Ben Arfa (born 1987), French international football player, was raised here
- Mahamadou Baradji, basketball player
- Laurent Bernard, basketball player
[edit] Points of interest
[edit] Twin towns
Châtenay-Malabry is twinned with
Bergneustadt (Oberbergischer Kreis, Germany) since 1967, which is also twinned with Landsmeer
Landsmeer (North Holland, Netherlands) since 1986, which is also twinned with Bergneustadt
Wellington (Shropshire, United Kingdom) since 2001
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